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Skillv2.4.0

ClawScan security

CN Web Search · ClawHub's context-aware review of the artifact, metadata, and declared behavior.

Scanner verdict

BenignApr 19, 2026, 3:36 PM
Verdict
benign
Confidence
high
Model
gpt-5-mini
Summary
The skill is an instruction-only web-search aggregator that only instructs the agent to fetch public webpages from many search sites — its requirements and instructions match its stated purpose.
Guidance
This skill appears to do what it says: fetch public webpages from many search/data sites. Before installing, consider: (1) queries are sent to third-party sites and may be logged — do not send secrets or sensitive data as search queries; (2) some targets are rate-limited or paywalled and the skill may receive limited results or be blocked; (3) scraping may violate some websites' terms of service — use responsibly; (4) the package metadata has inconsistent version fields and no listed homepage — if provenance matters, verify the author's GitHub repository (https://github.com/joansongjr/cn-web-search) manually. If you need stricter guarantees (no network access, or auditing of fetched content), test in a controlled environment first.

Review Dimensions

Purpose & Capability
okThe name/description promise (Chinese web search aggregator across many free engines) matches the SKILL.md: it lists search endpoints and example web_fetch calls. No unrelated credentials, binaries, or install steps are requested. Minor metadata inconsistencies exist (package.json/_meta.json/skill version numbers differ and there is no homepage), but these are bookkeeping issues, not functional mismatches.
Instruction Scope
noteRuntime instructions are limited to issuing web_fetch against public search and data sites (search engines, news sites, RSS, financial/public-data pages). They do not instruct reading local files, environment variables, or other system state. Note: the instructions will send user query text to remote third-party sites (expected for a web search aggregator).
Install Mechanism
okNo install spec and no code files to execute are included (instruction-only). Nothing is downloaded or written to disk by the skill itself, which minimizes install risk.
Credentials
okThe skill declares no required environment variables, credentials, or config paths. The SKILL.md does not ask for secrets. This is proportionate to its purpose.
Persistence & Privilege
okalways:false and no instructions to modify agent/system configuration. The skill does not request elevated or persistent privileges.