Security audit
Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk
This local expense tracker is purpose-aligned, but its very broad activation phrases could cause unintended local financial file creation or edits.
Install only if you are comfortable with a chat-based finance tracker creating and retaining local files under ~/.openclaw/expense-tracker/. Use explicit finance phrasing when invoking it, and review or remove its local data directory if it activates unintentionally.
The skill advertises activation for very broad phrases such as 'any personal finance task,' which creates a high risk of accidental invocation during ordinary conversation. Because the skill has read/write/exec capabilities and immediately performs filesystem initialization on first activation, unintended triggering can cause unwanted state changes and persistence without clear user intent.
The listed triggers include generic single words and everyday phrases like 'today', 'report', 'net', 'goal', 'help', 'menu', and 'good morning', which are highly likely to appear in unrelated conversations. In this skill, accidental activation is more dangerous because it can lead to file reads/writes, creation of local financial records, and execution of setup/export shell commands.
Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
On first activation, do the following:
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/expense-tracker/backups
Create all data files if they don't exist:
Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
When user says "export":
mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/expense-tracker/exports
Generate CSV files:
No suspicious patterns detected.