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@cotal-ai/cli@0.138.0
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 1d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe flagged agent-skill writes are part of an explicit setup flow and are limited to bundled skill files, while feedback submission is user-triggered. The reviewed sources show no install-time data collection or unrelated credential transfer.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
User-run CLI commands such as cotal setup, cotal setup --skills, and cotal feedback.
Impact
Expected setup file changes and user-requested feedback submission; no automatic credential collection or unrelated data transfer identified.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles bundled skills under ~/.agents/skills; feedback submits user-provided report data to the configured intake.
AI rationale
The flagged agent-skill writes are part of an explicit setup flow and are limited to bundled skill files, while feedback submission is user-triggered. The reviewed sources show no install-time data collection or unrelated credential transfer.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedback
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 exports a CLI entry point; no install lifecycle scripts are declared.
- Agent skills are reconciled by an explicit setup command and write only Cotal's skill files under ~/.agents/skills, with existing divergent files backed up.
- Feedback is submitted through a user-run command; its options describe the submitted details and protected intake key.
- The optional global install is prompted interactively, or follows the explicit --yes/non-interactive setup flow.
Evidence against
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/commands/spawn.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
Low
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.138.0.
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