ClawAudit verdict

social-media-scholar

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

The skill extracts paper information from social media links and saves it to Zotero, requiring API credentials. Potential risk if credentials are mishandled.

⚠ 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.

70
security
60
transparency
70
maintenance

Permission integrity

Installs packages at runtime — transitive dependencies are not auditable

package_install

Findings (4)

Pattern match medium

Accesses system credential store

SKILL.md · prose · downgraded · Keychain

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

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

Pattern match low

Python os.environ.get — reads environment variable

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

Pattern match low

Python urllib.request — network access

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

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

credential_accesspackage_install

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