ClawAudit verdict

baidu-scholar-helper

88
🟢 Trusted
Low risk — reviewed by ClawAudit, behavior matches stated purpose

Academic paper search and PDF download tool querying Baidu Scholar and arXiv; executionSinkDetected reflects documented pdftotext/pdfimages system calls for local PDF processing, and network access is limited to academic sources.

⚠ 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.

25
security
90
transparency
90
maintenance

Permission integrity

Installs packages at runtime — transitive dependencies are not auditable

package_install

Findings (4)

Pattern match high

References sudo — requests elevated privileges

SKILL.md · frontmatter · sudo

Pattern match high

apt-get install — installs system packages

SKILL.md · frontmatter · apt-get install

Pattern match high

yum install — installs system packages

SKILL.md · frontmatter · yum install

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

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

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

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

package_install

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