ClawAudit verdict

newsapi-search

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

The skill uses network capabilities for its legitimate purpose of searching news articles via NewsAPI, with transparent API key usage.

⚠ 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.

85
security
100
transparency
90
maintenance

Findings (3)

Pattern match medium

Accesses OpenClaw config/secrets directly

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · ~/.openclaw/.env

Pattern match low

Node http/https module — low-level network access

scripts/search.js · prose · downgraded · require('https')

Pattern match low

Accesses sensitive environment variables

scripts/search.js · prose · downgraded · process.env.NEWSAPI_KEY

Permissions & capabilities

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

network_in

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