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@cotal-ai/cli@0.141.0
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 20h ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged agent-skill writes require the user to run setup. Automatic connector reconciliation installs the package's staged first-party payloads; the reviewed sources show no malicious behavior.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
Explicit `cotal setup` or a validated CLI command that reaches connector reconciliation.
Impact
These actions install the CLI's own skills or connectors. No malicious behavior was identified.
Mechanism
Setup reconciles Cotal-authored skills into `~/.agents/skills`; boot reconciliation stages shipped connector payloads locally and invokes `ext add` on the staged path.
AI rationale
The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the flagged agent-skill writes require the user to run setup. Automatic connector reconciliation installs the package's staged first-party payloads; the reviewed sources show no malicious behavior.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md~/.cotal/agent-skills.json<config>/cotal/seed/store/<generation>/<name>
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 lists build, typecheck and test scripts, with no install lifecycle hook.
- Agent skill reconciliation runs only through an explicit setup invocation; the skills-only path requires the `--skills` option.
- The skill reconciler writes the package-owned `SKILL.md` files under `~/.agents/skills` and preserves divergent copies in backups.
- Boot reconciliation stages shipped first-party connector payloads locally, then invokes the CLI to add that staged payload.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
Source & flagged code
7 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
1 Critical5 High4 Medium4 Low
CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/commands/spawn.js
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
Low
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @cotal-ai/cli@0.141.0.
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