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Project Retrospective

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill persistently summarizes completed projects into reusable skill and memory files, which matches its stated purpose but requires careful review for sensitive details.

Install only if you want OpenClaw to help create persistent project-retrospective skills and memory files. Before approving saved output, review it for secrets, API keys, internal URLs, customer data, proprietary implementation details, and anything you would not want reused in future sessions.

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
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
Findings (4)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding

The trigger phrases include very broad everyday language such as summary-style requests, which can cause the skill to activate in situations where the user did not specifically intend durable knowledge extraction or storage. In this skill, unintended activation is more dangerous because activation leads to analysis of long conversation history and possible persistence into skill/memory files.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Ssd 3

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill directs the agent to analyze lengthy conversation history and extract project goals, decisions, problems, and best practices into reusable artifacts without any minimization, redaction, or sensitivity review. That creates a real data retention risk: secrets, internal architecture, customer information, credentials, and proprietary workflows discussed during the project could be copied into persistent files and later exposed or reused out of context.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Ssd 3

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
96% confidence
Finding

The memory template explicitly encourages recording detailed failed attempts, problem descriptions, and final solutions into persistent memory files. In practice, those sections often contain sensitive debugging traces, environment paths, operational mistakes, credentials handling details, or confidential business context, making the retention risk stronger in this skill than in a generic note-taking context.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
84% confidence
Finding

The skill content, trigger examples, and user-facing confirmation prompt are all specified solely in Chinese, with no indication that the assistant should adapt to the user's preferred language. This can violate a language/locale policy if the organization expects language choice or user opt-in rather than forcing a single language.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.