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@cotal-ai/cli@0.133.4
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 4d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged behaviors are part of user-invoked CLI setup, feedback, and connector management. Review found no malicious automatic behavior or reviewer-directed override.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
A user runs setup, feedback, extension, or seed reconciliation commands; package import registers commands without running them.
Impact
These actions are consistent with the CLI's stated functions; no automatic credential theft, unrelated collection, or unauthorized account action was found.
Mechanism
Setup installs or refreshes Cotal-authored agent skill files, feedback sends a user-submitted report, and seeding invokes the CLI to add bundled connectors.
AI rationale
The flagged behaviors are part of user-invoked CLI setup, feedback, and connector management. Review found no malicious automatic behavior or reviewer-directed override.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.aicotal.ai
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package exports a CLI entry point; its main file registers commands and exports runCli rather than invoking it at import time.
- Agent skills are reconciled by the explicit setup command and limited to Cotal's own SKILL.md files, with divergent copies backed up.
- Feedback requests are sent to the declared Cotal intake endpoint when the feedback command is run.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
6 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
5 High4 Medium4 Low
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
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.133.4.
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