ClawAudit verdict

daily-news-brief

daily-news-brief-cn

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

The skill fetches and summarizes news articles, using AI for content curation, no evident security concerns.

⚠ 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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security
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transparency
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maintenance

Findings (2)

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

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

Pattern match medium

Uses exec() — may execute shell commands

scripts/fetch_news.py · prose · downgraded · exec(

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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