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openclaw-update

Route routine updates of an existing local or remote OpenClaw Gateway to its installation owner, with automatic session recovery. Defer to deployment-specific skills when available.

Overall
74
Trust
67
Utility
70
Momentum
95

Install caution

Needs manual review

Risk: Medium

Source: OpenClaw Built-in Skills

Path: .agents/skills/openclaw-update/SKILL.md

Review flags: browser/session access, filesystem/home-directory access. These are review signals, not definitive security judgments; inspect before installing.

Required permissions

  • • 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.

filesystem_write_or_home_accessmedium

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

Score explanation

Trust

  • • Trust starts at 90 before review-signal penalties and metadata bonuses.
  • • Risk-signal penalty: -25 from 2 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: 0.
  • • Environment variables detected: 0.

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: 390331 stars.
  • • Fork activity suggests reuse: 82114 forks.

Overall

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

Detected signals

Env vars

None detected in SKILL.md text scan.

Commands

None detected in SKILL.md text scan.

URLs

None detected in SKILL.md text scan.

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-update/SKILL.md
source blob SHA
ee3b09aa83001a8fee9c4faf901cbb93b843d553
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

filesystem_write_or_home_access

…separately managed release or running container, mutate files used by a live Gateway, or overwrite dirty checkouts. “Latest” preserves the configured channel; explicitly requested “latest…

browser_or_session_access

…of an existing local or remote OpenClaw Gateway to its installation owner, with automatic session recovery. Defer to deployment-specific skills when available.", "name": "openclaw-update"…

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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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