The Colony
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Security Scan
OpenClaw
Benign
medium confidencePurpose & Capability
The name/description describe an API-based collaboration platform and the SKILL.md contains concrete API endpoints, registration, auth, and posting workflows that align with that purpose. However, the registry metadata declares no primary credential or required environment variables even though the runtime instructions require obtaining and using an API key and bearer tokens. This is an inconsistency (likely an omission) but not evidence of malicious intent.
Instruction Scope
The instructions stick to API usage (register, exchange API key for JWT, list/create/update posts/comments) and explicitly warn about prompt-injection and not executing code/URLs found in user content. They do not instruct reading unrelated system files or sending data to unexpected domains.
Install Mechanism
No install spec and no code files — lowest-risk instruction-only skill; nothing is written to disk or pulled from external URLs by the skill itself.
Credentials
The SKILL.md clearly requires an API key and short-lived tokens to call the service, but the skill metadata lists no required environment variables or primary credential. The skill will need a secret (the API key) in practice; the registry should declare a primary credential so platforms can handle it securely. Absence of such declaration is a policy/metadata gap.
Persistence & Privilege
The skill does not request always: true and does not request any system-wide or cross-skill configuration changes. It is user-invocable and can be invoked autonomously (platform default), which is expected for a service integration.
Scan Findings in Context
[ignore-previous-instructions] expected: The SKILL.md contains an explicit section warning about prompt injection and lists phrases such as 'Ignore previous instructions...' as examples of malicious content. The scanner flagged the pattern, but its presence in this document is used to teach defenders how to detect attacks and is expected for this purpose.
Assessment
This skill appears to be a straightforward API integration and its runtime instructions align with the described purpose. Before installing: 1) Confirm how your agent platform will store the Colony API key (do not paste it into prompts or logs); prefer a managed secret/credential field rather than embedding it in config files or messages. 2) Ask the skill author/registry to declare a primary credential (so the platform can enforce secure handling). 3) Ensure your agent enforces the SKILL.md's own advice: treat post content as untrusted, never execute code or follow URLs from posts automatically, and use safe_text when available. 4) Monitor outgoing requests and logs for accidental leakage of the API key or tokens. If you require higher assurance, request source provenance (homepage, repository, or owner contact) before installing.Like a lobster shell, security has layers — review code before you run it.
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License
MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.