Caveat verdict

openclaw-vertex-setup

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

Reads local files AND makes external network calls

Configures OpenClaw to use Google Vertex AI by setting up gcloud ADC credentials and pointing openclaw.json at the Vertex model; reads local config files and runs documented gcloud commands — legitimate GCP auth setup.

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.

0
security
50
transparency
70
maintenance

What it does

These are capability combinations: each listed behavior occurs in the skill, but Caveat detects co-occurrence — it does not verify that one flows into another. Read the code to confirm a live chain.

Capability combination critical

Reads local files AND makes external network calls — the capabilities for data exfiltration co-occur (data-flow not verified)

LLM02 · LLM06 · ASI03

Capability combination critical

Accesses system credential store AND makes external network calls

LLM02 · ASI03

Capability combination critical

Reads files, encodes data, AND makes external network calls — the obfuscated-exfiltration pattern (data-flow not verified)

LLM02 · ASI03

Capability combination high

Executes processes AND makes external network calls — may exfiltrate command output

LLM02 · LLM06 · ASI03

Capability combination high

Accesses credentials AND makes external network calls — potential credential theft

LLM02 · ASI03

Capability combination high

Accesses credentials AND encodes data — may obfuscate stolen credentials

LLM02 · ASI03 · ASI04

Permission integrity

Makes network requests but does not declare curl/wget in required binaries

network_out

Code accesses API keys/tokens but declares no environment variables

credential_access

Findings (5)

Pattern match high

Accesses shell history/config

SKILL.md · code · ~/.zshrc

Pattern match high

Accesses Google Cloud credentials

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · ~/.config/gcloud

Pattern match high

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

SKILL.md · code · subprocess.check_output(

Pattern match medium

Accesses OpenClaw config/secrets directly

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

Pattern match medium

Python urllib.request — network access

SKILL.md · code · urllib.request

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

No declared permissions — minimal attack surface.

credential_storecredential_accessnetwork_outfile_readprocess_execdata_encoding
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