Hacker News Daily
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
The skill coherently fetches public Hacker News stories and caches them locally, with no evidence of hidden credential use, exfiltration, or destructive behavior.
This appears safe for normal use. Before installing, note that it makes outbound requests to Hacker News, may respect proxy environment variables, writes a small local cache under ~/.cache, and may require Python plus the requests package to be present.
Findings (1)
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.
The skill may not run unless Python and the requests package are already available, and users should avoid ad-hoc dependency installation from untrusted sources.
The script depends on the external Python requests package while the metadata/install information declares no required binaries or install spec. This is purpose-aligned but users should ensure the dependency is installed from a trusted environment.
import requests
Use a trusted Python environment or package manager if installing missing dependencies; no special credentials are required.