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openclaw-parallels-smoke

Prepare, snapshot, run, rerun, debug, or interpret OpenClaw Parallels guest install, onboarding, gateway smoke, and upgrade checks across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Overall
57
Trust
17
Utility
88
Momentum
95

Install caution

High-risk behavior present

Risk: High

Source: OpenClaw Built-in Skills

Path: .agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke/SKILL.md

Review flags: browser/session access, credential or secret references, filesystem/home-directory access, network access or external URLs. These are review signals, not definitive security judgments; inspect before installing.

Required permissions

  • • Environment variables / secrets
  • • Shell commands
  • • Network/API usage
  • • Filesystem/home access
  • • Browser/session access

Permissions are inferred from SKILL.md text only. They are review prompts, not guarantees about runtime behavior.

Risk flags explained

browser_or_session_accessmedium

Mentions browser automation, cookies, sessions, local storage, or browser state.

credential_or_secret_referencehigh

Mentions tokens, API keys, passwords, or private-key style environment variables.

filesystem_write_or_home_accessmedium

Mentions filesystem writes, deletes, home-directory paths, or config/key locations.

network_accessmedium

Mentions external URLs, network APIs, downloads, or HTTP client usage.

package_installmedium

Mentions package installation or dependency-fetching commands.

shell_commandmedium

Contains shell command snippets. Review commands before copy/paste or agent execution.

Score explanation

Trust

  • • Trust starts at 90 before review-signal penalties and metadata bonuses.
  • • Risk-signal penalty: -75 from 6 detected flag(s).
  • • Metadata bonus: +2 from author/version/description fields.

Utility

  • • Utility starts at 55 and rewards clear descriptions, runnable examples, and explicit setup needs.
  • • Description present: yes.
  • • Command examples detected: 25.
  • • Environment variables detected: 1.

Momentum

  • • Momentum starts at 45 and uses public repo activity signals.
  • • Recent commit activity: latest repo update was 0 day(s) ago.
  • • Recent commit volume: 100 commit(s) in the lookback window (+20).
  • • Source has strong public adoption: 385453 stars.
  • • Fork activity suggests reuse: 81021 forks.

Overall

  • • Overall score weights trust 45%, utility 35%, and momentum 20%.

Detected signals

Env vars

  • • OPENAI_API_KEY

Commands

  • • inventories before mutation, requires Parallels Tools and a logged-in desktop session, rejects OpenClaw CLI/app/tray/process state and WSL distros, creates a dated power-off clean-OS snapshot only on an unprepared guest, enables WSL/Virtual Machine Platform, installs the signed Microsoft WSL package, sets WSL 2 as default, installs Git and Node/npm, verifies the Windows hypervisor is active and no reboot is pending, and creates a power-off
  • • & $openclaw ...
  • • , npm pack/install smoke, or Docker lanes that run package/build prep). Run unrelated build/package gates first, let them finish, then start the VM matrix. Concurrent
  • • . That lane installs the packed current-main npm tgz as baseline, then runs
  • • ../../../../openclaw-windows-node/.agents/skills/openclaw-proof-validation/PARALLELS.md
  • • .artifacts/parallels/openclaw-parallels-*
  • • .artifacts/parallels/openclaw-parallels-npm-update.*
  • • /opt/homebrew/bin/node
  • • /tmp/openclaw-parallels-*
  • • /tmp/openclaw-parallels-linux-gateway.log
  • • ; in-place global npm updates can otherwise leave stale hashed
  • • NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX="$HOME/.npm-global" npm install -g .

URLs

  • • http://<host-ip

Provenance & evidence

SkillRadar makes each review traceable back to the exact source path, source blob SHA, scanner version, and text-only policy that produced the report.

source
github.com/openclaw/openclaw@main
path
.agents/skills/openclaw-parallels-smoke/SKILL.md
source blob SHA
1fcceec86d7550ad26bc0714e36791fd6b13d5a5
scanner version
0.3.0
security model
text_only_no_execute_no_install_no_secrets
scan policy
Fetched and scored as text only; no install, no execution, no runtime loading.

Evidence snippets

credential_or_secret_reference

…t installs. - Linux same-guest update verification should also export `HOME=/root`, pass `OPENAI_API_KEY` via `prlctl exec ... /usr/bin/env`, and use `openclaw agent --local`; the fresh Linux ba…

filesystem_write_or_home_access

…- install with `NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX="$HOME/.npm-global" npm install -g .` - make sure `~/.local/bin/openclaw` exists or `~/.npm-global/bin` is on PATH - verify from a brand-new…

package_install

…rerun the smallest affected lane. Do not keep waiting on a capped lane. - Actual OpenClaw npm install/update phases are a stricter signal than whole-lane caps: install phases should normally…

network_access

…server, and point the guest updater at that served package. Prefer `openclaw update --tag http://<host-ip>:<port>/openclaw-<version>.tgz --yes --json`; when channel persistence also matte…

browser_or_session_access

…ore restoring it. A pristine `poweron` snapshot can contain the preconfigured logged-in session; switch to it normally so Parallels resumes that session. Do not pass `--skip-resume` a…

shell_command

…rest of the testing window. Defaults: - macOS: `75m` - Linux: `75m` - Windows: `90m` - aggregate npm-update wrapper: `150m` If a lane hits the cap, stop there, inspect the newest `/tmp/openclaw-parallels-…

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Methodology note

SkillRadar scans SKILL.md as hostile text only. It does not execute commands, install packages, or load third-party skills.

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