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@cotal-ai/cli@0.138.1
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 occur during explicit setup and are limited to the package’s own skill files. Feedback transmission and editor execution are also user-triggered and serve the CLI’s stated functions.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
The user runs `cotal setup`, submits feedback, or edits a persona.
Impact
These actions match the CLI’s stated purpose and require a user command.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles the package’s authored skills; feedback sends the submitted report to its intake; persona editing launches the chosen editor.
AI rationale
The flagged agent-skill writes occur during explicit setup and are limited to the package’s own skill files. Feedback transmission and editor execution are also user-triggered and serve the CLI’s stated functions.
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 94.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The agent-skill reconciliation runs from `cotal setup`, an explicit user command, and installs the package’s authored skills.
- Reconciliation writes the owned `SKILL.md` files and preserves other files in those directories.
- Feedback is submitted only when the feedback command is invoked, to the configured or Cotal intake endpoint, using the report fields supplied for that submission.
- The shell execution in persona editing launches the selected editor on a draft.
Evidence against
- The package can write skills to `~/.agents/skills`, an AI-agent skill directory.
- The feedback command can send a contact email or feedback key with a report.
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@0.138.1.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
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- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
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