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@vatio-ai/cli@0.96.0
Vatio CLI — deploy and manage Vatio agent workspaces
AI Security Review
scanned 15d ago · by lpm-firewall-aiSource inspection found no lifecycle hook or concrete attack behavior. Agent configuration changes are tied to explicit workspace initialization, and the reviewed network activity supports package update checks and Vatio CLI telemetry.
Static reason
No blocking static signals were detected.
Trigger
A user runs `vatio init` in a project, or invokes an improvement command that may display a skills hint.
Impact
These behaviors configure the initialized Vatio workspace or display update information; no unconsented broad agent configuration change or other attack effect was found.
Mechanism
Initialization writes a workspace manifest and a Vatio section in `AGENTS.md`; the hint reads installed-skill metadata and caches version-check results.
AI rationale
Source inspection found no lifecycle hook or concrete attack behavior. Agent configuration changes are tied to explicit workspace initialization, and the reviewed network activity supports package update checks and Vatio CLI telemetry.
Evidence
lib/commands/misc.mjslib/skills-hint.mjslib/telemetry.mjs
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for AI clean decision
- The manifest exposes a CLI entrypoint, declares yaml as its runtime dependency, and has no lifecycle script.
- The agent configuration write runs during `vatio init` and adds a Vatio workspace workflow note to the project’s `AGENTS.md`.
- The skills hint runs from explicit improvement commands, checks skill versions, and caches results without installing or rewriting agent configuration.
- The required yaml dependency excerpts show parser, schema, composition, and serialization modules; no attack behavior was identified in the reviewed paths.
- Run telemetry reports CLI events to the configured Vatio API; the CLI displays a notice and provides an environment-variable opt-out.
- Update and skills checks request release-version metadata and cache it; no remote code execution or payload installation was found.
Evidence against
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork
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
2 High2 Medium8 Low
HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationlib/skills-hint.mjs
HighSemantic Analysis Limitedlib/commands/improve.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1
MediumNetwork
MediumEnvironment Vars
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
LowNo License
LowSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json
LowSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json
LowSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json
LowSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @vatio-ai/cli@0.96.0.
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