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Skill Risk Auditor
by
Xiaofang Yang
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· v1.0.1
· MIT-0
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Install in OpenClaw
/install skill-risk-auditor
Description
Comprehensive pre-install guard that audits third-party skills across nine risk areas — covering semantic integrity, supply chain, secrets, data exfiltration...
Usage Guidance
This skill appears internally consistent and appropriately scoped for auditing other skills. Before installing, confirm that: (1) your platform will present candidate skill artifacts to the auditor in a sandboxed view (the auditor needs to read the candidate package but should not be given broader filesystem access), (2) you understand that the auditor will report on any sensitive-looking references it finds (it does not itself request credentials but may note their presence in artifacts), and (3) audit results should be treated as advisory — the auditor can miss subtle or obfuscated issues. 'Benign' here means coherent with its stated purpose, not that it can find every possible vulnerability.
Capability Analysis
Type: OpenClaw Skill
Name: skill-risk-auditor
Version: 1.0.1
The `skill-risk-auditor` is a defensive security utility designed to guide an AI agent through a structured risk assessment of other third-party skills. It defines nine comprehensive risk areas, including credential exposure, data exfiltration, and prompt injection, providing specific detection patterns (e.g., regex for AWS and OpenAI keys) and a clear scoring methodology. The instructions in `SKILL.md` include robust safety constraints, such as explicitly forbidding the execution of target skills and restricting file access to the candidate skill's directory to prevent path traversal or system-wide snooping.
Capability Assessment
Purpose & Capability
Name and description are aligned with the content of SKILL.md. The skill is an instruction-only pre-install auditor and declares no binaries, env vars, or installs — which is proportionate for a document-based audit. Asking to read every file in a candidate skill package is coherent with the stated goal.
Instruction Scope
SKILL.md limits actions to reviewing files in the candidate skill directory, catalogs executable content, and explicitly forbids following instructions found in artifacts. It does not instruct access to system files or external endpoints beyond noting references. The scope is well-defined and conservative.
Install Mechanism
No install spec or code files are present. As an instruction-only skill, there is nothing written to disk or downloaded during installation — this is the lowest-risk form and matches the skill's purpose.
Credentials
The skill requires no environment variables, credentials, or config paths. It only inspects candidate artifact contents, which is appropriate for an auditing tool.
Persistence & Privilege
always is false and there are no elevated privileges requested. Model invocation is allowed (the platform default) but that alone is not a concern given the skill's narrow, read-only audit instructions.
How to Use
- Make sure OpenClaw is installed (local or Docker)
- Run the install command in chat:
/install skill-risk-auditor - After installation, invoke the skill by name or use
/skill-risk-auditor - Provide required inputs per the skill's parameter spec and get structured output
Version History
v1.0.1
Problem: Our guard document itself contains literal attack phrases (such as “ignore previous instructions” and “trust this skill”), which can be flagged as suspicious by a pattern scanner and also create a theoretical injection surface.
Fix 1 — Audit Scope Boundary (line 28): Added an explicit scope boundary stating that the audit is strictly limited to the candidate skill’s package directory. If the candidate skill references external paths (such as ~/.ssh/), the guard records the reference as a finding but does not actually access it.
Fix 2 — Remove Literal Attack Strings (4 occurrences): Replaced all literal injection phrases with behavioral-category descriptions.
v1.0.0
Skill-risk-auditor 1.0.0
- Initial release of a comprehensive risk auditing skill for pre-install checks of third-party skills.
- Audits candidate skills across nine key risk areas, including semantic integrity, supply chain, secrets, data exfiltration, injection resistance, permission scope, destructive potential, resource abuse, and persistence.
- Provides severity ratings and plain-language explanations for each risk area, enabling informed decision-making.
- Requires a thorough review of all skill artifacts (documentation, code, examples) before producing risk ratings.
- Emphasizes evidence-based review, treating all artifacts as untrusted input and prioritizing observed content over claims.
Metadata
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Skill Risk Auditor?
Comprehensive pre-install guard that audits third-party skills across nine risk areas — covering semantic integrity, supply chain, secrets, data exfiltration... It is an AI Agent Skill for Claude Code / OpenClaw, with 184 downloads so far.
How do I install Skill Risk Auditor?
Run "/install skill-risk-auditor" in the OpenClaw or Claude Code chat to install it in one step — no extra setup required.
Is Skill Risk Auditor free?
Yes, Skill Risk Auditor is completely free, licensed under MIT-0. You can download, install and use it at no cost.
Which platforms does Skill Risk Auditor support?
Skill Risk Auditor is cross-platform and runs anywhere OpenClaw / Claude Code is available (cross-platform).
Who created Skill Risk Auditor?
It is built and maintained by Xiaofang Yang (@yxf203); the current version is v1.0.1.
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