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@cotal-ai/cli@0.135.3
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 2d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe scanner's process execution and agent-configuration findings correspond to setup and mesh operations initiated by the user. Feedback sends the report fields supplied to that command; no malicious behavior was found.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
The user invokes setup, feedback, or join.
Impact
No unauthorized collection or control change identified.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles Cotal-authored skills; feedback submits a user-provided report; join connects to the selected mesh.
AI rationale
The scanner's process execution and agent-configuration findings correspond to setup and mesh operations initiated by the user. Feedback sends the report fields supplied to that command; no malicious behavior was found.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md.bak
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
- Agent Skill reconciliation runs only through the explicit `cotal setup` command, including its `--skills` path.
- Reconciliation installs Cotal's canonical SKILL.md and backs up divergent user edits before replacing them.
- Feedback submits the report fields provided to the feedback command.
- Join uses an explicitly supplied link, token, or credentials, or resolves the selected mesh when invoked.
Evidence against
- No install-time lifecycle scripts are declared.
- The reviewed network and file-writing behavior is tied to user-invoked CLI features.
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@0.135.3.
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