ClawAudit verdict

scholar-search-zh

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

A Chinese-language academic paper search skill using the AISA Scholar API via a Python client; operations match the stated purpose of academic literature search.

⚠ 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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Findings (4)

Pattern match critical

Possible hardcoded credential

SKILL.md · code · API_KEY="your-key

Pattern match medium

Accesses system credential store

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · Keychain

Pattern match low

Python urllib.request — network access

scripts/search_client.py · prose · downgraded · urllib.request

Pattern match low

Python os.environ.get — reads environment variable

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

Permissions & capabilities

Requires 1 environment variable. (1 sensitive: AISA_API_KEY). Requires 1 system binary.

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