registry / @cotal-ai/cli / 0.140.4
@cotal-ai/cli@0.140.4
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 23h ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the reviewed operations are tied to explicit CLI commands. Skills are installed by setup, while feedback sends report content and any intake key to the Cotal feedback service as part of the requested submission.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
No install-time behavior was found. Setup, feedback, and join behavior runs when the corresponding command is invoked.
Impact
No unauthorized data collection, credential transfer, or agent-control mutation was identified.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles Cotal-authored skills; feedback sends a user-submitted report to the Cotal intake; join connects to the operator-provided space.
AI rationale
The manifest has no lifecycle scripts, and the reviewed operations are tied to explicit CLI commands. Skills are installed by setup, while feedback sends report content and any intake key to the Cotal feedback service as part of the requested submission.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Network endpoints2
broker.cotal.ai/v1/feedbackcotal.ai/v1/feedback
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 95.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest has no install or lifecycle scripts; its main and exported entries are JavaScript modules.
- The dispatcher says command dispatch happens when runCli is called; the package import registers commands but does not itself run them.
- Agent Skills are reconciled by the setup flow into the documented cross-vendor skills directory.
- Feedback submits the summary and optional details to the Cotal intake, using a feedback key only as a Bearer credential for that request.
- The shipped team-topology skill requires user agreement before deployment.
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@0.140.4.
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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