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@cotal-ai/cli@0.135.18
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 2d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged agent-control writes are part of the user-run setup command and are confined to Cotal-authored skill files with safeguards for existing user content. Feedback is an explicit submission to the package’s intake service; I found no malicious behavior in the reviewed paths.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
The user runs `cotal setup` to reconcile skills or `cotal feedback` to submit a report.
Impact
Expected setup and feedback behavior; no automatic credential or unrelated data transfer was identified.
Mechanism
Setup manages Cotal’s skill files; feedback sends the submitted report to the configured or Cotal intake.
AI rationale
The flagged agent-control writes are part of the user-run setup command and are confined to Cotal-authored skill files with safeguards for existing user content. Feedback is an explicit submission to the package’s intake service; I found no malicious behavior in the reviewed paths.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<skill>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.aicotal.ai
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 93.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package exposes a CLI and declares no install lifecycle hooks.
- `cotal setup` reconciles Cotal-authored skills into `~/.agents/skills`; it is not an install-hook write.
- Skill management is limited to each owned `SKILL.md` and preserves divergent copies in backups.
- Feedback is submitted through an explicit, validated command with no automatic retry.
Evidence against
- The CLI can write agent skill files outside its own directory when the user runs setup.
- Feedback can send a user-provided summary and details to Cotal’s intake service.
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/lib/auth-proc.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
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.135.18.
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