OpenClaw Quickstart Setup

• Outcome: Review
• Latest audit: May 29, 2026 at 9:35 PM UTC
• Version:
  1.0.0

Overview

This is a coherent OpenClaw setup guide, but it asks users to enable persistent automations and sensitive account integrations without enough scoping guidance.

Review this before installing. Use dedicated bot and email accounts where possible, verify the wacli and maton skills separately, restrict OAuth/API scopes, protect tokens, and only enable the cron workflows after defining exactly what the agent may do and how to stop it.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA

Vulnerability Patterns

• Data Exfiltration: External Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
• Prompt Injection: Instruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
• Privilege Escalation: Excessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
• Supply Chain: Unpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
• Excessive Agency: Unrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep

Findings (1)

Missing User Warnings

Medium

• Confidence: 88% confidence
• Finding: The skill instructs users to install the Maton email-access skill for Gmail/Outlook access without any warning about the sensitivity of email data, scope of permissions, token handling, or mailbox privacy implications. In a setup guide that automates agent deployment and starter workflows, this omission can lead users to grant broad mailbox access without understanding the security and privacy risks.

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.