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Route Specialist

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a coherent task router that uses file paths and optional LLM classification to choose specialist prompts, with no evidence of persistence, exfiltration, destructive behavior, or hidden installation behavior.

Before installing, confirm that your OpenClaw LLM endpoint and model routing are acceptable for the sensitivity of your task text and file paths, especially for proprietary code or client work. The skill itself appears narrowly scoped to routing and prompt selection.

Vulnerability Patterns
  • Skill Instruction HijackingAlters the agent's session goals or safety constraints when the skill loads
  • Agent Memory PoisoningWrites attacker-controlled rules into memory that affect later sessions
  • Remote Payload Retrieval and ExecutionFetches external code whose behavior can change after review
  • Embedded Malicious CodeShips malicious scripts inside the skill and executes them locally
  • Unauthorized Access and Privilege EscalationObtains permissions beyond the task's legitimate needs
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • System Prompt LeakageDirect Leakage, Indirect Extraction, Tool-Based Exfiltration
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
Findings (3)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The skill sends raw task text to an external LLM during stage 2 classification, but the description does not disclose that user input may leave the local boundary. In a routing skill, tasks can contain proprietary code requests, credentials, incident details, or other sensitive data, so undisclosed third-party transmission creates a real privacy and compliance risk.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Session Persistence

Medium
Category
Rogue Agent
Confidence
75% confidence
Finding

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.

Content

Scanner excerpt · SKILL.md (reported line 65)May include surrounding context.

md
'.xcworkspace', '.m', '.h'}
    if any(any(f.endswith(ext) for ext in ios_extensions) for f in files):
        return {"domain": "ios", "hard_gate_triggered": True, "confidence": "high"}
    if 'info.plist' in [Path(f).name.lower() for f in files]:
        return {"domain": "ios", "hard_gate_triggered": True, "confidence": "high"}

    # Strong iOS keywords

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
82% confidence
Finding

The skill returns the full specialist system prompt as an output field, which exposes internal prompt engineering and control instructions to downstream callers. While not inherently a direct exploit, this unnecessarily leaks implementation details that can help attackers tailor prompt-injection attempts or evade routing and policy behavior.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.