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@cotal-ai/cli@0.136.4
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 1d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged process execution and agent-skill writes support CLI setup and extension management, with skill reconciliation reached through `cotal setup`. Feedback traffic is an explicit report submission to Cotal's intake; no malicious default behavior was identified.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
The skill reconciliation runs during `cotal setup`; feedback submission runs only when the user invokes the feedback command.
Impact
These actions can modify skill files or transmit submitted feedback, within the requested CLI operations.
Mechanism
Setup maintains Cotal-authored skill files in ~/.agents/skills. Feedback sends the submitted report to the Cotal intake, with a user-configurable intake URL.
AI rationale
The flagged process execution and agent-skill writes support CLI setup and extension management, with skill reconciliation reached through `cotal setup`. Feedback traffic is an explicit report submission to Cotal's intake; no malicious default behavior was identified.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedback
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 a separate dispatcher; no lifecycle scripts are declared in package.json.
- Agent skills are reconciled by the explicit `cotal setup` command, which writes Cotal-authored SKILL.md files under ~/.agents/skills and preserves divergent copies.
- Feedback is submitted only when the feedback command is explicitly run; it posts to the Cotal feedback intake or a validated user override.
- The feedback request uses no redirects or automatic retry.
Evidence against
- Setup can install, refresh, back up, or remove Cotal-owned skill files in the shared ~/.agents/skills directory.
- Feedback can send a user-provided report and contact email to the Cotal feedback service when submitted.
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@0.136.4.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.136.4 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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