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@cotal-ai/cli@0.135.5
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 2d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe reviewed source ties filesystem writes, network requests, and shell execution to explicit setup, feedback, and persona-edit commands. The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected flows showed no concealed collection or unrelated account action.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
The user runs a CLI command such as setup, feedback, or persona edit.
Impact
No unauthorized credential collection, account action, or unrelated data transfer was identified.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles bundled skills into ~/.agents/skills; feedback sends the supplied report to Cotal; persona editing launches the configured editor.
AI rationale
The reviewed source ties filesystem writes, network requests, and shell execution to explicit setup, feedback, and persona-edit commands. The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected flows showed no concealed collection or unrelated account action.
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 96.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exposes JavaScript import entry points and lists ordinary build/test scripts; it declares no install lifecycle hook.
- The skill reconciler installs Cotal-authored skills and limits writes to its own SKILL.md files, preserving divergent copies in backups.
- The cross-vendor skill write is part of the cotal setup flow, not automatic package installation or import behavior.
- Feedback is an advertised, user-invoked command that sends the supplied report fields to Cotal’s intake endpoints.
- Shell execution is limited to launching the configured editor during an interactive persona edit.
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@0.135.5.
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