ClawAudit verdict

scholar-search

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

The skill provides unified academic search across arXiv and Semantic Scholar, with no evidence of 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.

78
security
70
transparency
70
maintenance

Findings (2)

Pattern match high

Possible hardcoded credential

scripts/set_s2_api_key.py · prose · downgraded · API_KEY="): updated_lines.append(f

Pattern match low

Python os.getenv — reads environment variable

scripts/scholar-search.py · prose · downgraded · os.getenv(

Permissions & capabilities

Requires 1 environment variable. (1 sensitive: S2_API_KEY).

network_in

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