CC runtime-sentinel
Runtime security guardian for OpenClaw agents. Use this skill whenever the user mentions security, skill safety, prompt injection, malware, suspicious behavior, credential leaks, network monitoring, skill integrity, or the ClawHavoc attack. Also trigger for phrases like "is this skill safe", "audit my skills", "check for threats", "my agent is acting weird", "scan for malware", "protect my agent", or any concern about what installed skills are doing at runtime. runtime-sentinel provides five active defenses: skill integrity hashing, prompt injection detection, credential exposure auditing, network egress monitoring, and process anomaly detection. Free tier covers hashing and basic injection scanning. Premium features (continuous daemon, egress monitoring, process anomaly detection) are gated via x402 USDC micropayments on Base — no account or API key required.
Runtime security guardian for OpenClaw agents.
As a process C 59/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The purpose itself is risky: wallets, browser password stores, offensive security. Even an honest implementation gives the agent access to things that cost money.
Explain in the description why the access is needed and how it is limited; add tests that show refusals on dangerous requests.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
The skill tells the agent to hide things from you: not to show errors, not to mention actions, to report differently from what was done. You lose the ability to see what the agent really did.
Transparency beats a smooth answer. If the goal is to hide technical noise, ask the agent to "summarise briefly", not to "not mention".
How to improve
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 22
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 22
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medium Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsREADME.md:65Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target- **`wallet/mnemonic.enc`** — 12-word recovery phrase, AES-256-GCM, separate Argon2id derivation
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medium Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsREADME.md:67Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer targetBack up your recovery phrase with `sentinel wallet export`. Recovery on a new machine: `sentinel wallet recover`.
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medium Concealment
en-hide-from-userreferences/threat-model.md:102Instruction to hide actions from the user (documentation of a security skill)the agent to silently forward all email drafts to an attacker address.
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medium Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsreferences/x402-payment.md:73Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target**Security**: The wallet private key is stored encrypted at
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medium Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/src/payment.rs:241Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target// Re-encrypt the mnemonic phrase for this machine
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processREADME.md:40Starts a background / autostarted process (documentation of a security skill)disown
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeREADME.md:89Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions (documentation of a security skill)chmod +x sentinel && sudo mv sentinel /usr/local/bin/
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeREADME.md:93Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions (documentation of a security skill)chmod +x sentinel && sudo mv sentinel /usr/local/bin/
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeREADME.md:97Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions (documentation of a security skill)chmod +x sentinel && sudo mv sentinel /usr/local/bin/
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeREADME.md:101Privilege escalation / world-writable permissions (documentation of a security skill)chmod +x sentinel && sudo mv sentinel /usr/local/bin/
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenscripts/src/payment.rs:21High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)const TREASURY_ADDRESS: &str = "0x0E…305";
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenscripts/src/payment.rs:24High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)const USDC_BASE: &str = "0x83…913";
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low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/src/payment.rs:154Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)println!("⚠️ This will display your 12-word recovery phrase.");quoted -
low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/src/payment.rs:187Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)println!("Recovery phrase (12 words — write these down, in order):");quoted -
low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/src/payment.rs:203Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (quoted — discussed, not commanded)println!("Enter your 12-word recovery phrase (words separated by spaces):");quoted -
low Risky intent
intent-wallet-secretsscripts/src/payment.rs:211Handles crypto-wallet secrets (seed / mnemonic / private key) — a classic stealer target (detector / deny-list definition).map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!("Invalid recovery phrase: {}", e))?;detector -
low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenscripts/src/payment.rs:651High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential)// USDC contract on Base: 0x83…913
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low Secrets in code
secret-high-entropy-tokenscripts/src/payment.rs:656High-entropy token-like string (may be an id, hash or a credential) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)"to": "0x83…913",
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processSKILL.md:126Starts a background / autostarted process (documentation of a security skill)# disown
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low Risky intent
intent-offensive-securitySKILL.md:152Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use) (detector / deny-list definition)- **CRITICAL**: Active exfiltration attempt, reverse shell indicator, or
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A further 2 matches are quotations in this security skill's documentation and are not counted as findings.
Files scanned: 19. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 59/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 100Steps. 24 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1358 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
- low The response is described with custom markup (3 tags): a typed call is more reliable
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 872: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 6 example trigger phrases
- +4Structure: 15 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 24 items
- +4Has examples (6 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (3 of 3)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 91.