registry / @cotal-ai/cli / 0.141.5
@cotal-ai/cli@0.141.5
Cotal mesh CLI: up, join, watch, console, spawn, mint, channels, history, ext.
AI Security Review
scanned 8h ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe manifest has no install lifecycle hooks, and importing the CLI registers commands without automatically running them. The flagged filesystem, process, and network behaviors are part of explicit setup, extension, join, and feedback commands; the inspected credential flow sends the feedback key to the selected intake URL.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.
Trigger
User-run CLI commands such as setup, feedback, join, or extension management.
Impact
No malicious impact identified in the inspected behavior.
Mechanism
Setup manages Cotal-authored agent skills and may offer to install the CLI globally; feedback submits a report to its intake endpoint. No unsolicited install or import-time attack behavior was identified.
AI rationale
The manifest has no install lifecycle hooks, and importing the CLI registers commands without automatically running them. The flagged filesystem, process, and network behaviors are part of explicit setup, extension, join, and feedback commands; the inspected credential flow sends the feedback key to the selected intake URL.
Evidence
~/.agents/skills/<skill>/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 package exports a CLI entry point, and importing it registers command handlers in the CLI registry.
- The manifest contains npm scripts but no install lifecycle hooks.
- Agent skills are written under ~/.agents/skills only when the user runs cotal setup, including cotal setup --skills.
- Feedback is submitted by the feedback command to Cotal’s stated intake endpoints; a supplied feedback key is sent to the selected intake URL.
- The optional global npm install is part of setup and installs the CLI package itself.
Evidence against
- The CLI has process execution, network, and filesystem capabilities, but the inspected uses support extension management, feedback submission, and setup.
- Setup writes skills into a shared agent skills directory, but this behavior is tied to an explicit setup command and manages the package’s own skills.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoDynamicRequireEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetworkShell
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@0.141.5.
See all versions of @cotal-ai/cli for other recorded verdicts.
- Review the evidence and your use of @cotal-ai/cli@0.141.5 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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