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Skillv0.1.0

ClawScan security

@blockchain-forever/aelf-skills · ClawHub's context-aware review of the artifact, metadata, and declared behavior.

Scanner verdict

BenignFeb 28, 2026, 4:21 PM
Verdict
benign
Confidence
high
Model
gpt-5-mini
Summary
The skill is internally consistent with its stated role as a hub that lists, downloads, and bootstraps aelf ecosystem skills — it requires no unexplained credentials and uses npm/git/tar/bun flows that fit its purpose.
Guidance
This package is coherent for its stated purpose, but it is a bootstrapper that downloads and installs third-party skill packages and will run their install/setup scripts. Before installing or running it: 1) review skills-catalog.json and the repository URLs for the skills you'll bootstrap; prefer known GitHub repos; 2) run bootstrap in a contained environment (container, VM, or a machine without sensitive credentials) or use --skip-install and inspect code first; 3) consider using --source=github or --source=local to avoid unexpected npm package variants; 4) be aware that 'bun install' and package setup scripts inherit your environment — avoid running on hosts with high-value secrets; 5) if you need higher assurance, inspect individual skill packages (or run security:audit) before allowing automated bootstrap/installation.

Review Dimensions

Purpose & Capability
okName/description match the code and SKILL.md: this package is a catalog/bootstrapping hub. The scripts build a skills catalog, clone/npm-pack skill packages, and run setup/health commands. Required tools (git, npm, bun, tar) are appropriate for those tasks and no unrelated credentials or config paths are requested.
Instruction Scope
noteSKILL.md instructs the agent to run bootstrap.sh, bun run setup, and health checks. Those steps read skills-catalog.json/workspace.json and then download and operate on third-party skill repos. This stays within the hub's purpose, but the runtime behavior grants the agent the ability to fetch and operate on external code (including running each skill's setup/install scripts).
Install Mechanism
concernBootstrap code downloads via npm (npm pack -> tar extract) and via git clone (GitHub). It extracts tarballs to disk and runs 'bun install' inside downloaded skill directories. These are standard mechanisms for a bootstrapper but are a supply-chain risk: tar extraction and executing package install/setup scripts means arbitrary code from npm/github will be written and executed locally.
Credentials
okThe package declares no required environment variables or credentials. Some utilities (expandPathWithEnv) will expand ${VARS} found in workspace paths and will error if missing; runCommand inherits process.env when spawning installs, so local environment variables could be visible to child processes. No unrelated secret variables are explicitly requested by the skill.
Persistence & Privilege
okThe skill is not forced-always, is user-invocable, and does not claim to modify other skills' config. It writes downloaded skill files to a destination directory (downloaded-skills), which is expected behavior for a bootstrap tool.