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AdvisoryAudited by Static analysis on Apr 30, 2026.

Overview

No suspicious patterns detected.

Findings (0)

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.

What this means

The skill's behavior depends on the installed yt-dlp tool, so a compromised or untrusted installation of that dependency could affect what runs locally.

Why it was flagged

The skill relies on installing an external yt-dlp package/binary. This is disclosed and purpose-aligned, but users should trust the package source they install from.

Skill content
"requires":{"bins":["yt-dlp"]},"install":[{"id":"brew","kind":"brew","formula":"yt-dlp"...},{"id":"pip","kind":"pip","package":"yt-dlp"...}]
Recommendation

Install yt-dlp only from trusted package managers or sources and keep it updated.

What this means

Using the skill will run yt-dlp locally and contact the video source for the URL provided.

Why it was flagged

The script executes the local yt-dlp binary with the user-provided URL to retrieve subtitles. This command execution is central to the skill and is not shell-interpolated.

Skill content
cmd = ["yt-dlp", "--write-subs", "--write-auto-subs", "--skip-download", "--sub-lang", "en", "--output", "subs", url]
subprocess.run(cmd, cwd=temp_dir, check=True, capture_output=True)
Recommendation

Use the skill only with video URLs you intend to process, and avoid relying on transcript content as trusted instructions.