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BF clawguard

Security auditor for ClawHub skills. Run before installing ANY skill — scans SKILL.md and scripts for prompt injection, data exfiltration, shell injection, permission mismatches, and malicious patterns. Returns a PASS / WARN / FAIL verdict with a full breakdown. Triggers on phrases like "scan this skill", "is this skill safe", "audit skill", "check before installing", or "inspect clawhub skill".

modbender/skill-library-mcp Agent Skills author: modbender MIT 3 files body ≈ 1 591 tokens Open the sourcegithub.com analyzed 2 d ago

Security auditor for ClawHub skills.

As a process F 42/100 · Will not run — References files that are not bundled: scripts/scan.py

AnalyzerAI and agentstype and topics are labelled automatically from the skill text
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Technical rating
B
85/100
safety, quality, tests
Safety 60%
94
Quality 40%
71
Run on models
none yet
Process rating
F
42/100
Will not run
References files that are not bundled: scripts/scan.py
Tools and files w 18
0
Inputs and preconditions w 11
0
Failures and branches w 10
0
the three weakest of ten parameters · all ten

How to improve

  1. Say in the description WHEN to use the skill ("use when…", example requests): that is the agent's main cue.
  2. The text references files that are not there: add them or drop the references.
For the model run — optional
  • 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
  • low Risky intent intent-offensive-security README.md:80
    Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)
    ✅ No data exfiltration or reverse shell patterns detected
  • low Risky intent intent-offensive-security SKILL.md:77
    Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use) (detector / deny-list definition)
    Scans all shell scripts for outbound data patterns — curl/wget to unknown domains, DNS tunneling, reverse shell patterns (bash -i, nc -e, /dev/tcp), and base…ded command execution.
    detector
  • low Risky intent intent-offensive-security SKILL.md:130
    Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use) (detector / deny-list definition)
    - **❌ FAIL** — Any critical finding: prompt injection, confirmed exfiltration, reverse shell, or credential theft pattern
    detector
  • low Risky intent intent-offensive-security SKILL.md:139
    Offensive-security / dual-use content (legitimate for authorised testing; review intended use)
    | Reverse shell pattern | 🔴 Critical | FAIL |

A further 2 matches are quotations in this security skill's documentation and are not counted as findings.

Files scanned: 3. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.

Against the Agent Skills spec

  • warning description-no-when description does not say WHEN to use the skill (no "use when")
  • warning missing-ref reference to a missing file: scripts/scan.py
  • note frontmatter-key unknown frontmatter key "homepage"

Process rating: all ten parameters 42/100

Will not run. References files that are not bundled: scripts/scan.py
  • 0Tools and files. 1 referenced file(s) missing: scripts/scan.py
  • 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
  • 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
  • 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
  • 30Running it twice. 2 mutating operations with no state check
  • 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (clawguard) differs from the folder (claw-guard)
  • 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
  • 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
  • 100Steps. 11 steps
  • 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1591 tokens
  • medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
  • low 10 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

  • +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
  • -220 emoji in the instructions: noise for the model
  • +1No license
  • +2Single-language instructions
  • +5Description quotes 5 example trigger phrases
  • +3Description length 398: enough signal without eating the budget
  • +4Structure: 21 headings
  • +3Step-by-step instructions: 11 items
  • +3Output format is stated explicitly
  • +4Has examples (5 code blocks)

Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 71.