ClawAudit verdict

halo-blog

45
🟠 Risky
Significant concerns — only install if you understand the risks

The skill manages a Halo blog instance via CLI, and has execution sink detected, but does not exhibit any clearly malicious behavior.

⚠ 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.

35
security
90
transparency
90
maintenance

Permission integrity

Installs packages at runtime — transitive dependencies are not auditable

package_install

Findings (3)

Pattern match high

HTTP request to bare IP address — common in malicious payloads

references/auth.md · code · http://127.0.0.1

Pattern match high

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

references/publishing.md · code · subprocess.run(

Pattern match high

Pipe to python — executes piped content as Python code

scripts/md-to-html-post.sh · prose · downgraded · | python3

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 1 system binary.

package_install

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