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Skillv1.0.0

ClawScan security

GLM Multimodal Analyzer · ClawHub's context-aware review of the artifact, metadata, and declared behavior.

Scanner verdict

SuspiciousMar 7, 2026, 4:54 PM
Verdict
suspicious
Confidence
medium
Model
gpt-5-mini
Summary
The skill largely does what it claims (send images/videos/docs to a GLM-4.6V endpoint), but metadata and runtime instructions disagree about required secrets and the bundled script will read and upload arbitrary local files to a third‑party API — a privacy/exfiltration risk and an incoherence in declared requirements.
Guidance
This skill will read local files (images, videos, PDFs), base64-encode them, and send their contents to https://open.bigmodel.cn using a ZHIPU_API_KEY. Before installing: (1) Confirm the skill metadata is corrected to declare ZHIPU_API_KEY; (2) Verify you trust the remote endpoint and the publisher — the Homepage and source are unknown; (3) Do not feed sensitive or private files (passwords, keys, proprietary docs) to the skill; (4) Consider using an ephemeral or scoped API key and audit API usage; (5) If you need higher assurance, request the publisher provide provenance (source repo, signatures) or review the code yourself — the relevant behavior is visible in scripts/analyze.py. If you accept these privacy risks and trust the endpoint, the functionality is coherent; if not, do not install or run with sensitive inputs.

Review Dimensions

Purpose & Capability
concernThe skill's purpose (multimodal analysis via GLM-4.6V) matches the code and agent configuration. However the registry metadata lists no required env vars while SKILL.md and scripts/analyze.py require ZHIPU_API_KEY — an inconsistency in declared requirements. Minor model naming/context inconsistencies (SKILL.md: GLM-4.6V 128K, agent.json/model: 'zai/glm-4.6v-flash', script MODEL='glm-4.6v', MAX_TOKENS=4096) are also present.
Instruction Scope
concernSKILL.md and analyze.py allow local file paths and will base64-encode entire local files and include them in requests to https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4/chat/completions. That behavior is coherent with a multimodal uploader, but it means arbitrary local files (including sensitive documents) may be exfiltrated to the remote API without additional safeguards or filtering.
Install Mechanism
noteThis is an instruction-only skill with no install spec (lowest install risk). README mentions requests will be auto-installed but there is no formal install step; the script exits if requests is missing. No external downloads or packaged installers are used.
Credentials
concernThe runtime requires a single secret ZHIPU_API_KEY (used as a Bearer token) which is proportionate to calling a third-party API. The problem is that the registry metadata did not declare this requirement — the skill should have listed ZHIPU_API_KEY as required.env. Requiring an API key for the claimed purpose is expected, but the omission in metadata and the ability to send arbitrary local files increases risk.
Persistence & Privilege
okThe skill does not request always:true, does not declare system config paths, and does not modify other skills. It is user-invocable and can be invoked autonomously per platform default (not flagged here).