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Security audit

subagent-orchestrator

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This is a disclosed task-orchestration helper, with the main caution that it can continue autopilot work, write project memory, and clean temporary files.

Install this only if you want an agent to manage multi-step OpenClaw subagent workflows with less repeated prompting. Before using it, make sure project memory and task-board updates are acceptable, and preserve any screenshots, logs, or intermediate files you may need before allowing cleanup.

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
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • 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)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding

This README is a markdown file, so vague-trigger review applies. The note that the skill is "intentionally generic" provides broad applicability but no concrete invocation phrases, scope boundaries, or exclusion conditions, which can increase the chance of unintended activation in general orchestration contexts.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
92% confidence
Finding

The skill description is broad enough to auto-activate for many ongoing workflow situations, including multi-round task management and rule updates, without clear exclusions or scope boundaries. In an orchestration skill that can continue dispatching subagents without waiting for user restatement, overbroad triggering increases the chance of unintended autonomous execution, policy drift, or acting on stale context.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

The skill explicitly instructs the agent to clean finished sessions and delete temporary artifacts, but it does not require user notice, confirmation, retention rules, or a safety check for whether those artifacts may still be needed. In a continuous autopilot orchestration context, this can lead to silent loss of evidence, logs, screenshots, or intermediate data that may be needed for auditability, rollback, debugging, or user expectations.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.