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@cotal-ai/cli@0.133.3
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 4d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged agent-skill writes are part of the user-run setup command and are limited to Cotal-managed skill files. Credential transport occurs in an explicit feedback submission; no install-time or import-time attack behavior was identified.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
A user runs `setup` or `feedback`; no malicious behavior was found on install or import.
Impact
No unauthorized credential disclosure, account action or harmful file change was identified.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles Cotal-authored skill files. Feedback submits user-provided report details and uses a feedback credential only for that request.
AI rationale
The flagged agent-skill writes are part of the user-run setup command and are limited to Cotal-managed skill files. Credential transport occurs in an explicit feedback submission; no install-time or import-time attack behavior was identified.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedback
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 88.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package exposes `setup` as a user-run CLI command for preparing a space.
- Setup installs Cotal-authored skills into the cross-vendor skills directory; the installer writes its managed file and leaves other directory contents alone.
- Feedback sends a report only when the feedback command runs, using a configured or public intake and an explicitly supplied or configured credential.
Evidence against
- The inspected package manifest declares no lifecycle scripts.
- The flagged process execution supports CLI setup or launch behavior; no unrelated download-and-execute chain was identified.
- The flagged credential transport is part of the explicit feedback submission flow.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
7 flaggeddist/seed/reconcile.jsView file
1import { existsSync, renameSync } from "node:fs";
L2: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L3: import { randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
High
Child Process
Package source references child process execution.
dist/seed/reconcile.jsView on unpkg · L1dist/lib/persona-files.jsView file
274process.on(signal, pass);
L275: const child = program ? spawn(program, [draft], { stdio: "inherit" }) : spawn(`${editor} ${quoted}`, { shell: true, stdio: "inherit" });
L276: return new Promise(resolve => {
High
dist/lib/nats-bin.jsView file
Findings
1 Critical5 High4 Medium4 Low
CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/commands/spawn.js
HighChild Processdist/seed/reconcile.js
HighShelldist/lib/persona-files.js
HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationdist/lib/agent-skills.js
HighRuntime Package Installdist/commands/setup.js
HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/commands/ext.js
MediumDynamic Requiredist/lib/nats-bin.js
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
LowScripts Present
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
Low
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.133.3.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
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- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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