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@cotal-ai/cli@0.140.2
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 hooks, and the reviewed process execution, skill-file writes, and feedback transport are tied to CLI operations. Skill reconciliation is limited to Cotal-managed files and preserves divergent copies.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
Running setup or submitting feedback; importing the package registers commands.
Impact
No malicious impact identified from the reviewed source.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles Cotal skills under ~/.agents/skills and may offer a global install for an npx invocation. Feedback sends the submitted report to its intake endpoint.
AI rationale
The package has no install hooks, and the reviewed process execution, skill-file writes, and feedback transport are tied to CLI operations. Skill reconciliation is limited to Cotal-managed files and preserves divergent copies.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedback
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The package entry points register CLI commands when imported; the manifest has no install lifecycle scripts.
- Agent skill reconciliation is invoked by setup and installs Cotal-authored skills.
- The reconciler writes only its managed SKILL.md files and preserves divergent copies.
- The global npm install is a setup convenience offered for npx runs without an existing cotal command.
- Feedback submission is an explicit operation; its key is used for the configured feedback intake.
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@0.140.2.
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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