Caveat verdict

openclaw-watchdog

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

Self-healing gateway monitor that sends alerts via the user own Telegram bot using credentials the user explicitly provides; diagnostics run locally.

⚠ Flagged for review — coarse, uncorroborated signal, not a confirmed exploit. Review the config yourself before installing.

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.

40
security
70
transparency
70
maintenance

Findings (7)

Pattern match critical

Recursive delete from root or home — destructive command

SKILL.md · code · rm -rf ~

Pattern match medium

HTTP request to bare IP address — common in malicious payloads

openclaw-watchdog/scripts/watchdog.py · prose · downgraded · http://127.0.0.1

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

openclaw-watchdog/scripts/watchdog.py · prose · downgraded · subprocess.check_output(

Pattern match low

Python urllib.request — network access

openclaw-watchdog/scripts/test-message.py · prose · downgraded · urllib.request

Pattern match low

Python os.getenv — reads environment variable

openclaw-watchdog/scripts/watchdog.py · prose · downgraded · os.getenv(

Pattern match low

Python aiohttp session — async network access

openclaw-watchdog/scripts/watchdog.py · prose · downgraded · aiohttp.ClientSession

Pattern match low

Python os.environ.get — reads environment variable

scripts/watchdog.py · prose · downgraded · os.environ.get(

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 environment variables. (1 sensitive: TELEGRAM_TOKEN). Requires 2 system binaries.

credential_access

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