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ClawScan security

Pilot Service Agents News · ClawHub's context-aware review of the artifact, metadata, and declared behavior.

Scanner verdict

BenignApr 28, 2026, 4:29 AM
Verdict
benign
Confidence
high
Model
gpt-5-mini
Summary
The skill's declared purpose (aggregating public news/feeds via Pilot Protocol) matches its requirements and runtime instructions — it only needs pilotctl and a running Pilot daemon and does not request unrelated credentials or perform unrelated actions.
Guidance
This skill appears coherent and limited to querying Pilot Protocol news agents. Before installing: (1) ensure pilotctl is obtained from a trusted source and you understand the Pilot daemon/network join process; (2) be aware that agent responses may include upstream external URLs (clicking/following them may expose you to malicious content); (3) if you run the Pilot daemon, confirm you're comfortable joining network 9 and the privacy/trust model of the Pilot overlay. If any of those network/trust assumptions are unacceptable, avoid installing or run in a sandboxed environment.

Review Dimensions

Purpose & Capability
okName/description (news feeds, HN, Reddit, GDELT, USGS, etc.) aligns with the runtime requirements: pilotctl on PATH, the pilot-protocol/pilot-service-agents skills, and a daemon joined to network 9. No extraneous binaries, env vars, or config paths are requested.
Instruction Scope
okSKILL.md only instructs the agent to use pilotctl to discover agents (list-agents), read agent contracts (/help), request structured data (/data) and summaries (/summary), and poll the inbox. It does not direct the agent to read unrelated files, environment variables, or system config. Note: agent responses include upstream URLs returned by the networked sources (expected for a feed aggregator).
Install Mechanism
okInstruction-only skill with no install spec and no bundled code — lowest-risk installation footprint. The only external dependency is the pilotctl binary, which must already be present.
Credentials
okNo environment variables, credentials, or config paths are required. The absence of requested secrets is proportional to the described function.
Persistence & Privilege
okalways:false (not force-included). disable-model-invocation is default false (agent may invoke the skill autonomously) — this is standard for skills and not concerning by itself because the skill does not request broad credentials or system access.