BC openclaw-whatsapp
WhatsApp bridge for OpenClaw — send/receive messages, auto-reply agents, QR pairing, message search, contact sync
As a process C 63/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, 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 skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
How to improve
- Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
- 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 · 5
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 5
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shell-known-hostSKILL.md:33Pipe-to-shell installer from a well-known host (still executes remote code)curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xs4m1337/openclaw-whatsapp/main/install.sh | bash
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeSKILL.md:58Privilege escalation / world-writable permissionssudo cp "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/wa-notify.sh" /usr/local/bin/wa-notify.sh
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeSKILL.md:59Privilege escalation / world-writable permissionssudo cp "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/wa-notify-worker.sh" /usr/local/bin/wa-notify-worker.sh
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-privilegeSKILL.md:60Privilege escalation / world-writable permissionssudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wa-notify.sh /usr/local/bin/wa-notify-worker.sh
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low Dangerous commands
cmd-background-processscripts/wa-notify.sh:50Starts a background / autostarted processnohup "$WORKER_PATH" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
Files scanned: 5. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
description-no-whendescription does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
Process rating: all ten parameters 63/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 6 mutating operations with no state check
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 8 steps
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1715 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
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
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Description length 113: 120–800 characters recommended
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- -4Absolute local paths (C:\Users, /home/…): not portable
- -2localhost URLs: will not work for another user
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +4Structure: 18 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 8 items
- +4Has examples (16 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (1 of 1)
- +3All 2 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 70.