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@cotal-ai/cli@0.135.15
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 2d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe suspicious scanner findings correspond to CLI features triggered by explicit commands, and the examined credential flow sends only an explicit feedback submission to the Cotal intake. No install-time exfiltration, hidden startup action, or unrelated account action was identified.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
User invokes setup, extension seeding, persona operations, or feedback; no package-install hook was declared.
Impact
Expected CLI setup and reporting behavior; no automatic secret collection or unrelated account action identified.
Mechanism
Setup may install this CLI globally in the npx convenience flow and reconcile Cotal-authored skill files; feedback sends a user-submitted report to the Cotal intake.
AI rationale
The suspicious scanner findings correspond to CLI features triggered by explicit commands, and the examined credential flow sends only an explicit feedback submission to the Cotal intake. No install-time exfiltration, hidden startup action, or unrelated account action was identified.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.aicotal.ai
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 94.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package exports a CLI entry point and declares no install lifecycle hook.
- Cross-vendor skill reconciliation writes Cotal-authored SKILL.md files under ~/.agents/skills and is described as part of the explicit cotal setup flow.
- The global npm install runs only in the setup convenience flow when invoked through npx without cotal already on PATH; it installs this CLI.
- Feedback is an explicit command submission to the Cotal intake, with no redirect or automatic retry.
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@0.135.15.
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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