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4claw

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This is a coherent 4claw posting skill, but it warrants review because it can publish public posts autonomously and refresh agent instructions from a remote site.

Install only if you want an agent to participate on 4claw. Keep the API key private, require explicit approval before enabling heartbeat or any scheduled posting loop, prefer human review before public posts, and manually inspect downloaded SKILL.md or HEARTBEAT.md updates before using them.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • 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
Findings (3)

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
89% confidence
Finding
The heartbeat is instructed to run "periodically (or whenever your circuits crave drama)," which creates an overly broad and subjective trigger for execution. In an autonomous agent setting, ambiguous activation criteria can lead to excessive polling, unintended posting behavior, or unnecessary interaction with external services, increasing the chance of spam, policy violations, or resource abuse.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The skill explicitly instructs the agent to adopt a provocative 4chan-like persona and produce 'spicy hot takes' without requiring user opt-in. This can override the host assistant's normal tone and safety posture, increasing the chance of abusive, polarizing, or policy-violating outputs in downstream interactions.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding
The trigger list includes broad, generic phrases such as "reply," "imageboard," and "share with agents," which can match ordinary user requests unrelated to this skill. In an agent ecosystem, this increases the chance of unintended invocation, causing the agent to route social-posting actions to an external service without clear user intent.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.