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@vatio-ai/cli@0.92.1
Vatio CLI — deploy and manage Vatio agent workspaces
AI Security Review
scanned 19d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe manifest has no install lifecycle scripts. Source inspection shows the flagged agent-file write is part of explicit `vatio init`, while the skills hint only reads installed-skill metadata and records local display state; no concrete attack behavior was found.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source
Trigger
A user runs `vatio init`, or an improve command reaches the skills hint.
Impact
These actions do not establish unconsented agent control changes, credential exposure, or other attack behavior.
Mechanism
`vatio init` may add a Vatio note to the current project's AGENTS.md; the hint stores display state in the CLI cache.
AI rationale
The manifest has no install lifecycle scripts. Source inspection shows the flagged agent-file write is part of explicit `vatio init`, while the skills hint only reads installed-skill metadata and records local display state; no concrete attack behavior was found.
Evidence
lib/commands/misc.mjslib/skills-hint.mjslib/commands/improve.mjs
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 95.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- package.json declares the CLI entrypoint and dependencies but no lifecycle scripts.
- The project AGENTS.md note is written only by the explicit `vatio init` command.
- The skills hint checks installed Vatio skills and writes its display interval to a cache; it does not modify agent settings.
- The improve command writes a report file only when invoked with `--save`.
- The hint is skipped in CI or when VATIO_NO_SKILLS_HINT is set.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
NoLicense
Source & flagged code
6 flaggedlib/skills-hint.mjsView file
•Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
import { existssync, mkdirsync, readfilesync, writefilesync } from "node:fs";
import { homedir } from "node:os";
import { dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path";
import { confighome } from "./config.mjs";
import { paint } from "./support.mjs";
const skill = "vatio-improve";
const version_file = ".vatio-sk[redacted]";
const latest_url = "https://registry.npmjs.org/@vatio-ai/skills/latest";
const show_every_ms = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
const check_every_ms = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
const fetch_timeout_ms = 1_500;
export async function printskillshint(startdir = process.cwd()) {
if (process.env.ci || process.env.vatio_no_skills_hint) return;
const path = join(confighome(), "sk
High
Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.
lib/skills-hint.mjsView on unpkglib/commands/improve.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1View file
•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 4
High
Findings
3 High2 Medium7 Low
HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationlib/skills-hint.mjs
HighSemantic Analysis Limitedlib/commands/improve.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1
HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltalib/commands/improve.mjs
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
LowNo License
LowSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json
LowAi Review Evidencelib/commands/misc.mjs
LowAi Review Evidencebin/vatio.mjs
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @vatio-ai/cli@0.92.1.
See all versions of @vatio-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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