Back to skill

Security audit

contradiction-analyzer

Security checks for vulnerabilities and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a disclosed Markdown-only analysis aid for comparing conflicting viewpoints, with no hidden execution, credential use, persistence, or broad data access found.

Install this if you want OpenClaw to structure complex research around competing claims and source bias. Be aware it may activate for broad debate-style questions and make answers more conflict-focused; review the uninstall path before running deletion commands.

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
  • Tool MisuseTool Parameter Abuse, Chaining Abuse, Unsafe Defaults
  • Rogue AgentSelf-Modification, Session Persistence
  • Trigger AbuseOverly Broad Trigger, Shadow Command Trigger, Keyword Baiting Trigger
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
Findings (8)

Tool Parameter Abuse

High
Category
Tool Misuse
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).

Content

Scanner excerpt · INSTALL.md (reported line 124)May include surrounding context.

rmdir /S /Q %USERPROFILE%.openclaw\skills\contradiction-analyzer

Linux/Mac

rm -rf ~/.openclaw/skills/contradiction-analyzer

text

Tool Parameter Abuse

High
Category
Tool Misuse
Confidence
90% confidence
Finding

Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).

Content

Scanner excerpt · INSTALL.md (reported line 124)May include surrounding context.

rmdir /S /Q %USERPROFILE%.openclaw\skills\contradiction-analyzer

Linux/Mac

rm -rf ~/.openclaw/skills/contradiction-analyzer

text

Vague Triggers

High
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
97% confidence
Finding

The skill declares automatic trigger conditions using very broad, common conversational patterns such as open-ended discussions, controversial topics, and generic phrases like 'different views' or 'pros and cons'. This can cause the skill to activate unintentionally during ordinary user interactions, expanding its influence beyond user intent and potentially altering responses, source weighting, or analysis framing without explicit consent.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The skill says to 'automatically activate' for broad categories like 'open-ended discussions,' 'controversial topics,' and common keywords such as 'opinions' or 'pros and cons.' These conditions overlap with ordinary conversation and do not provide clear boundaries or negative examples beyond a single exclusion for simple factual questions.

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 · EXAMPLES.md (reported line 285)May include surrounding context.

md
## 3. Extreme Viewpoint Identification

⚠️ **Flagged:**
- "UBI will solve all poverty" - Overly simplistic, ignores structural factors
- "UBI will destroy the work ethic" - Contradicts pilot evidence, overly pessimistic
- "UBI is impossible to fund" - Ignores potential revenue sources, assumes status quo

Vague Triggers

Medium
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
95% confidence
Finding

The trigger conditions are broad enough to activate on many ordinary analytical queries, including generic open-ended or multi-factor questions. This can cause unintended invocation of the skill, steering responses into contradiction framing even when the user did not request it, which may distort outputs, overemphasize conflict, or interfere with higher-priority instructions.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Missing User Warnings

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
94% confidence
Finding

The uninstall section provides destructive deletion commands but does not explicitly warn users that the removal is permanent and should be reviewed before execution. While the path shown is narrowly scoped to the skill directory, copy-pasting destructive commands without cautionary guidance increases the risk of accidental data loss if the path is modified or expanded.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Natural-Language Policy Violations

Low
Category
Not specified by scanner
Confidence
86% confidence
Finding

The instructions include Chinese text fragments ("贯穿始终" and "倾向") within otherwise English guidance, which imposes mixed-language output or interpretation without user opt-in. The file does not state that multilingual output is optional, user-selectable, or required for a specific regional purpose.

Content

No source excerpt is available for this finding.

Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.