Heartbeat

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

Heartbeat is a documentation-only helper for designing OpenClaw heartbeat files, with disclosed local preference storage and no evidence of exfiltration or unsafe automation.

Safe to install if you want help drafting HEARTBEAT.md behavior. Review anything it creates under ~/heartbeat/, avoid storing secrets there, and manually confirm any generated cron or heartbeat changes before enabling them.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

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
Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Low

Confidence: 72% confidence
Finding: The setup instructs the agent to persist state to a local path without an explicit warning that user data will be written. Silent local writes can violate user expectations, create unintended retention of preference data, and normalize file modifications without informed consent, which is risky even when the data is low sensitivity.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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