Briefing Room
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
The skill is coherent for generating macOS news briefings, but it uses public web/API sources, a short background sub-agent, and local file output/cleanup that users should notice.
This looks reasonable for a macOS daily briefing skill. Before installing, be aware that it will run a temporary background briefing task, query public web/API services, use your configured location for weather, and create files in the configured output folder. Use a coarse location if privacy matters and review the output folder before using cleanup.
Findings (4)
Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.
After asking for a briefing, work may continue in the background while collecting news and generating files.
The briefing is designed to run in a separate sub-agent for up to 10 minutes. This is aligned with the non-blocking briefing purpose and has a timeout/cleanup, but users should recognize it as background agent activity.
Spawn a sub-agent with the full pipeline task immediately ... runTimeoutSeconds=600, cleanup="delete"
Only invoke the skill when you want a briefing generated, and keep the timeout/cleanup behavior in place.
Your configured location may be shared with public weather services when the briefing runs.
The helper sends configured latitude/longitude and timezone to a public weather API. This is expected for weather briefings and disclosed, but it is still privacy-relevant data flow.
curl -s --max-time 10 "https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=$lat&longitude=$lon
Use a nearby city or coarse coordinates if you do not want precise location data used for weather.
Running the cleanup command can delete older generated briefing folders.
The helper includes a deletion command for old briefing output directories. It appears scoped to the configured briefing folder and is user-invoked, but deletion authority is worth noticing.
clean Remove briefings older than 30 days ... rm -rf "$dir"
Verify the configured output folder before using the clean command, especially if you changed output.folder.
The skill may not work as expected outside macOS or without the undeclared tools/capabilities.
The registry metadata declares only curl and no OS restriction, while the docs disclose additional runtime requirements. This is a dependency disclosure gap, not evidence of hidden behavior.
Required: - macOS (uses `afplay`, `say`, `curl` — all built-in) - OpenClaw with `web_search`
Install only on macOS and confirm python3, afplay/say, curl, and web_search are available.