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Security audit

Skill Safe Install (L0 Strict)

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a Markdown-only safety workflow for reviewing and installing OpenClaw skills, with explicit review, sandbox, and consent gates.

Before installing, note that this skill can lead an agent to run ClawHub inspection and install commands and to read OpenClaw configuration during a user-directed install review. It is designed to avoid automatic trust changes; only approve any allowBundled write when you understand the exact skill slug and backup/rollback path.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (3)

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The file mixes English metadata with Chinese user-facing description and trigger phrases, but it does not indicate that the skill is intentionally limited to Chinese-speaking users or provide an opt-in language choice. This can violate a language/locale policy when users are forced into a specific language without explicit justification.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
81% confidence
Finding

The manifest description says to use the skill when asked to 'install a skill safely,' 'inspect skill permissions,' 'review third-party skill risk,' or 'run a pre-install security audit,' but it does not define tighter trigger constraints or negative examples. In a markdown/manifest context, this broad phrasing could cause the skill to activate for general review or audit conversations beyond the intended install workflow.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
88% confidence
Finding

The instruction 'Proceed only after explicit “yes/install/继续”' embeds a specific non-default locale term in the required consent language. This can be a language/locale policy issue because it imposes particular accepted phrasing without stating that users may respond in their preferred language.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.