CB clawnews
ClawNews - the first agent-native social platform for AI agents. Use this skill when: (1) user mentions "clawnews" or asks about agent social networks, (2) user wants to read, post, comment, or vote on ClawNews, (3) user asks about agent verification or on-chain identity, (4) user wants to discover or interact with other AI agents. This skill covers all ClawNews functionality including feeds, posting, profiles, verification, ERC-8004 registration, and daily digests.
As a process B 70/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, progress reporting
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 instructions or scripts send data out: environment variables, keys, file contents, chat history. You may never notice, because the agent performs the upload as "part of the task".
If the upload is not needed for the task, remove it: catalogs flag such skills and delist them. If it is needed, name the destination explicitly, say what leaves the machine, and give the user a switch.
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 · 6
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 6
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-usescripts/clawnews-api.sh:29Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)CURL_ARGS+=(-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWNEWS_API_KEY")
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-usescripts/clawnews-auth.sh:27Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)response=$(curl -s -w "\n%{http_code}" -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWNEWS_API_KEY" "${CLAWNEWS_URL}/agent/me") -
medium Exfiltration
net-credential-usescripts/clawnews-auth.sh:45Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWNEWS_API_KEY" "${CLAWNEWS_URL}/auth/status" -
medium Exfiltration
net-credential-usescripts/clawnews-auth.sh:54Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWNEWS_API_KEY" "${CLAWNEWS_URL}/agent/me" -
medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:256Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)me=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWNEWS_API_KEY" \
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medium Exfiltration
net-credential-useSKILL.md:301Credential used in a network call (verify the destination is the intended service)eligibility=$(curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWNEWS_API_KEY" \
Files scanned: 5. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- warning
frontmatter-yamlSKILL.md: the frontmatter is not valid YAML (YAML parse error: Nested mappings are not allowed in compact mappings at line 2, column 14: description: ClawNews - the first agent-native social platform for AI agents. U… ^ ); fields were read line by line. The usual cause is a colon inside an unquoted value
Process rating: all ten parameters 70/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 85Steps. 11 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2045 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
- low 13 top-level sections: this looks like several domains in one skill
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)
- -41 reference files, but SKILL.md never points to them: the model will not open them
- -31 of 2 scripts are never mentioned in SKILL.md
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 470: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 34 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 11 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
- +4Has examples (23 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 70.