registry / @cotal-ai/cli / 0.139.1
@cotal-ai/cli@0.139.1
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 1d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the reviewed writes and network requests are tied to explicit setup or feedback commands. The bundled skill provides topology guidance, and the installer limits its writes to managed skill files.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
Explicit setup or feedback commands; connector reconciliation follows a validated CLI command invocation.
Impact
Expected setup files and user-requested feedback submission; no unauthorized credential transfer or agent-control change identified.
Mechanism
Setup copies bundled skills to ~/.agents/skills; feedback posts a user-submitted report to the Cotal intake. No malicious behavior was identified in these paths.
AI rationale
The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the reviewed writes and network requests are tied to explicit setup or feedback commands. The bundled skill provides topology guidance, and the installer limits its writes to managed skill files.
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 manifest exposes the CLI entry point and lists build, typecheck, and test scripts; no install lifecycle hook was found.
- Agent-skill reconciliation is called from the explicit setup command path.
- The skill installer writes Cotal’s canonical SKILL.md files under ~/.agents/skills and tracks ownership; it does not target other agent configuration files.
- Feedback submission runs as an explicit command and sends the report to the Cotal feedback intake; an intake key is directed to that intake.
- Connector seeding runs after a validated CLI invocation and is consistent with the CLI’s built-in connector setup.
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@0.139.1.
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