Polymarket News Monitor
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 10, 2026.
Overview
The visible artifacts describe a coherent Polymarket news/status monitor, with ordinary cautions about scheduled execution, optional webhook notifications, and install/provenance details.
This appears safe for its stated purpose if you want a local Polymarket news/status monitor. Before installing, verify any GitHub repository you clone, make sure the Python requests package is trusted, use webhook notifications only with trusted destinations, and remember that a cron setup will keep running until you remove it. The provided script content was truncated in the review artifact, so review the full file before deploying it continuously.
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.
If a user clones an unverified repository, they may run code that differs from the reviewed artifact.
The documentation instructs users to clone and run code from an external GitHub repository, while the registry source is listed as unknown. This is user-directed, but users should verify the repository before running it.
git clone https://github.com/mig6671/polymarket-news-monitor.git cd polymarket-news-monitor python3 scripts/polymarket-monitor.py
Install from the reviewed package when possible, or verify the GitHub repository, owner, and commit before running the script.
The script may fail unless requests is already installed, or it may rely on whatever local version is present.
The script uses the third-party requests package, but the skill has no install spec and the documentation claims no external dependencies. This looks like an undeclared dependency rather than malicious behavior.
import requests
Declare and pin the Python dependency, or verify the local requests installation before use.
The configured webhook service will receive alert details such as titles, URLs, timestamps, importance, and keywords.
When webhook notifications are enabled, alert data is posted to a user-configured webhook URL. This is disclosed and purpose-aligned, but it is still an external data flow.
requests.post(
self.config["notification"]["webhook"],
json=alert,
timeout=5
)Use only trusted webhook destinations and avoid placing secrets in alert titles, URLs, or configuration files.
If the user installs the cron entry, the monitor will keep running on a schedule and writing local state/log files.
The skill recommends a cron schedule, which would make the monitor run repeatedly after the initial setup. This is disclosed and user-directed.
Cron Setup (Recommended) # Check every 30 minutes */30 * * * * /path/to/polymarket-monitor.py --data-dir /path/to/data
Only add the cron job if continuous monitoring is desired, and remove the crontab entry when no longer needed.