ClawAudit verdict

sherpamind

45
🟠 Risky
Significant concerns — only install if you understand the risks

The skill's capabilities and description indicate a potential risk of creating local runtime state and installing a background service, but there is no concrete 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.

73
security
90
transparency
70
maintenance

Findings (5)

Pattern match medium

Instructs covert action — may act without user awareness

references/retrieval-architecture.md · prose · downgraded · quietly

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

scripts/bootstrap.py · prose · downgraded · subprocess.run(

Pattern match low

Python os.getenv — reads environment variable

scripts/bootstrap.py · prose · downgraded · os.getenv(

Pattern match low

Popular HTTP library — network access

src/sherpamind/client.py · prose · downgraded · got

Pattern match low

Python shutil file operation — copies/moves/deletes files

src/sherpamind/migrate.py · prose · downgraded · shutil.move(

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.

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