ClawAudit verdict

skills-best-practices

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

A reference guide documenting best practices for writing SKILL.md files with only instructional content, no scripts, network calls, or executable code.

⚠ 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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security
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transparency
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maintenance

Findings (2)

Pattern match critical

Possible hardcoded credential

references/clawhub-publishing.md · code · TOKEN="$(jq -r .token

Pattern match high

Writes to SKILL.md — self-modifying skill

references/claude-code-features.md · prose · downgraded · SKILL.md` content enters the conversation as a single message and stays there fo

Why the tier is capped

Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class A). 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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