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Claw Tavily Search Pro

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This skill is a straightforward Tavily web search and URL extraction integration, with expected third-party API use and no hidden local access or persistence found.

Install this only if you intend to use Tavily as a third-party search and extraction provider. Use a dedicated Tavily API key, avoid submitting secrets, private internal URLs, signed links, or sensitive personal data, and treat extracted web content as untrusted reference material.

SkillSpector

By NVIDIA
Vulnerability Patterns
  • Data ExfiltrationExternal Transmission, Env Variable Harvesting, File System Enumeration
  • Prompt InjectionInstruction Override, Hidden Instructions, Exfiltration Commands
  • Privilege EscalationExcessive Permissions, Sudo/Root Execution, Credential Access
  • Supply ChainUnpinned Dependencies, External Script Fetching, Obfuscated Code
  • Excessive AgencyUnrestricted Tool Access, Autonomous Decision Making, Scope Creep
Findings (4)

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
93% confidence
Finding
The skill invokes an external Tavily API for both search queries and URL extraction, but the user-facing documentation does not clearly warn that provided queries and URLs are transmitted to a third-party service. This creates a real privacy and data-handling risk because users or downstream agents may unknowingly send sensitive prompts, internal URLs, or confidential research targets outside their trust boundary.

Missing User Warnings

Medium
Confidence
81% confidence
Finding
The script transmits user-supplied URLs and the API key to Tavily without any explicit user-facing disclosure, confirmation, or policy guardrails. In an agent setting, this can cause unintended sharing of sensitive internal URLs, signed links, or private targets with a third-party service, especially because the skill description emphasizes search rather than extraction.

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
process.exit(1);
}

const resp = await fetch("https://api.tavily.com/extract", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
Confidence
78% confidence
Finding
fetch("https://api.tavily.com/extract", { method: "POST"

External Transmission

Medium
Category
Data Exfiltration
Content
process.exit(1);
}

const resp = await fetch("https://api.tavily.com/extract", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
Confidence
78% confidence
Finding
https://api.tavily.com/

VirusTotal

64/64 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Static analysis

No suspicious patterns detected.