ClawAudit verdict

hf-cli

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

The skill has executionSinkDetected=true, but it appears to be related to a legitimate functionality of the Hugging Face Hub CLI tool.

⚠ 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
90
transparency
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maintenance

Findings (3)

Pattern match high

Pipe-to-shell pattern (curl | sh) — supply chain attack vector

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · curl -LsSf https://hf.co/cli/install.sh | bash

Pattern match high

Pipe to bash — executes piped content as shell commands

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · | bash

Pattern match high

Pipe to sh — executes piped content as shell commands

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · | sh

Why the tier is capped

Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class A). 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.

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