Caveat verdict

castreader

castreader-openclaw-skill

88
🟢 Trusted
No high-risk patterns surfaced by the deep scan — automated capability review, not behavioral proof.

The skill reads web pages aloud, extracting text and converting it to audio, which appears to be a legitimate functionality.

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

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

70
security
90
transparency
100
maintenance

Permission integrity

Installs packages at runtime — transitive dependencies are not auditable

package_install

Findings (4)

Pattern match medium

References child_process — can spawn system processes

scripts/demo.js · prose · downgraded · child_process

Pattern match medium

setuid — privilege escalation mechanism

scripts/extract.js · prose · downgraded · setuid

Pattern match low

Base64 encoding/decoding

references/castreader-api.md · prose · downgraded · base64-encode

Pattern match low

Accesses sensitive environment variables

scripts/generate-paragraph.js · prose · downgraded · process.env.CASTREADER_API_KEY

Permissions & capabilities

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

package_installnetwork_in

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