ClawAudit verdict

arxivkb

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🟢 Trusted
Low risk — reviewed by ClawAudit, behavior matches stated purpose

Fully local arXiv paper manager using Ollama embeddings and FAISS/SQLite — crawls arXiv's public API, processes PDFs locally, and indexes them; no cloud keys, no external data exfiltration.

⚠ Flagged for review — coarse, uncorroborated signal, not a confirmed exploit. Review the config yourself before installing.

Automated static analysis — not a human review. ClawAudit flags capabilities, not confirmed intent, and can produce false positives. Disagree with this verdict? Use Dispute below.

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Findings (3)

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

scripts/install.py · prose · downgraded · subprocess.run(

Pattern match low

Python urllib.request — network access

scripts/arxiv_crawler.py · prose · downgraded · urllib.request

Pattern match low

Python os.environ.get — reads environment variable

scripts/cli.py · prose · downgraded · os.environ.get(

Why the tier is capped

Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class D). Final tier capped at Caution — cannot be lifted by any downgrade, example-payload opt-in, or allowlist.

Permissions & capabilities

Requires 2 system binaries.

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