ClawAudit verdict

x-scout

88
🟢 Trusted
Low risk — reviewed by ClawAudit, behavior matches stated purpose

The skill appears to be a simple Twitter intelligence scraper with no suspicious capabilities or behaviors.

⚠ 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.

48
security
100
transparency
90
maintenance

Findings (6)

Pattern match high

Possible hardcoded credential

setup.sh · prose · downgraded · API_KEY: " TW_KEY if [ -z

Pattern match medium

References sudo — requests elevated privileges

setup.sh · prose · downgraded · sudo

Pattern match medium

subprocess execution — runs system commands from Python

x_scout.py · prose · downgraded · subprocess.check_call(

Pattern match low

Python os.environ.get — reads environment variable

x_scout.py · prose · downgraded · os.environ.get(

Pattern match low

Popular HTTP library — network access

x_scout.py · prose · downgraded · Got

Pattern match low

POSTs data to external URL

x_scout.py · prose · downgraded · .post( "https://

Why the tier is capped

Execution sink present in raw bytes (Hard Floor: class B/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: TWITTERAPI_KEY). Requires 2 system binaries. (1 elevated: curl).

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