ClawAudit verdict

telegram-bot

45
๐ŸŸ  Risky
Significant concerns โ€” only install if you understand the risks

Accesses credentials AND makes external network calls

The skill accesses credentials to interact with the Telegram Bot API, which could potentially be used for malicious purposes.

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50
security
70
transparency
70
maintenance

What it does

These are capability combinations: each listed behavior occurs in the skill, but ClawAudit detects co-occurrence โ€” it does not verify that one flows into another. Read the code to confirm a live chain.

Capability combination high

Accesses credentials AND makes external network calls โ€” potential credential theft

LLM02 ยท ASI03

Findings (2)

Pattern match high

Possible hardcoded credential

SKILL.md ยท prose ยท downgraded ยท TOKEN="your-bot-token

Coarse signal โ€” prose, single-step high

Instruction-prose smuggling shape detected: collects a sensitive target ("environment variable") and emits it outward ("Send"). Phrased as prose with no trigger tokens โ€” a semantic prompt-injection / data-exfil pattern the syntactic scanners can't see. Final tier capped at Caution; review the instructions before installing.

SKILL.md ยท 1. Open Telegram and message [@BotFather](https://t.me/BotFather) 2. Send `/newbot` and follow the prompts to create your bot 3. Copy the bot token (looks like

Permissions & capabilities

Requires 1 environment variable. (1 sensitive: TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN). Requires 2 system binaries. (1 elevated: curl).

credential_accessnetwork_outnetwork_in
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