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@cotal-ai/cli@0.140.1
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 1d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe package has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged agent-surface mutation is part of an explicit setup command that installs the package’s own skill. Network and process operations inspected are user-triggered and consistent with feedback, joining a mesh, or managing CLI extensions.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
User runs setup, feedback, join, or an extension-management command; no install hook is declared.
Impact
Expected setup and service behavior; no automatic credential collection, unrelated exfiltration, or unsolicited account action was found.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles the package’s authored skill into the agent skills directory. Feedback sends the report and any explicitly supplied intake credential to the selected feedback URL.
AI rationale
The package has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged agent-surface mutation is part of an explicit setup command that installs the package’s own skill. Network and process operations inspected are user-triggered and consistent with feedback, joining a mesh, or managing CLI extensions.
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 92.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exports the CLI entry point and declares build/test scripts, with no install lifecycle hook.
- Agent skills are written only when the user runs `cotal setup` or its `--skills` path; the shipped skill describes designing multi-agent teams.
- Skill reconciliation is limited to the package’s authored skill files and a Cotal ownership manifest.
- Feedback is an explicit command that sends the supplied report to the selected intake; a feedback key is read only from the specified key file.
Evidence against
- The package can write a skill into `~/.agents/skills`, a directory read by other agent tools, when setup runs.
- The CLI can invoke npm to install itself globally during setup, and can install extensions when the user runs `cotal ext add`.
- The feedback command can send a user-provided key and report details to a feedback intake.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork
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@0.140.1.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.140.1 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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