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release-openclaw-nightly

OpenClaw Tideclaw alpha/nightly release automation: isolated branches, local fixes, release CI, branch retention, and forward-port to main.

Overall
72
Trust
49
Utility
88
Momentum
95

Install caution

High-risk behavior present

Risk: High

Source: OpenClaw Built-in Skills

Path: .agents/skills/release-openclaw-nightly/SKILL.md

Review flags: browser/session access, filesystem/home-directory access, network access or external URLs, shell command snippets. 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.

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.

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: -43 from 4 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

  • API

Commands

  • from existing git tags, npm versions, and GitHub releases. Select
  • is stuck only on advisory lanes after CI, plugin prerelease, npm preflight, package preparation, and install smoke are green, dispatch a focused Full Release Validation on the same head with
  • , matching npm
  • /usr/local/bin/gh-tideclaw-write
  • GH="/usr/local/bin/gh-tideclaw-write"
  • OPENCLAW_ALLOW_ROOT=1 openclaw cron run "$CRON_ID" --expect-final --timeout 21600000
  • gh
  • gh api
  • gh run list
  • gh run view
  • git add <files>
  • git commit -m "fix: stabilize alpha release preflight"

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/release-openclaw-nightly/SKILL.md
source blob SHA
03a2a63b03cc6410a4758ca7d4166607509cae74
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

…run broad env/token dumps. For GitHub writes on the Tideclaw host, use the Tideclaw `gh` write wrapper below. - When an alpha, beta, or repair branch needs to discover or reuse backpor…

network_access

…record why. ## Start 1. Work in the Tideclaw host checkout from `$release-private`. 2. Fetch first: ```bash git fetch origin main --tags --prune git switch main git merge --ff-only…

browser_or_session_access

…d push the branch. 3. Run release validation from the alpha branch, using GitHub CLI, not browser/fetch tools. On the Tideclaw host, bare `gh` is a read-only Codex sandbox wrapper; use `/…

shell_command

…Never run broad env/token dumps. For GitHub writes on the Tideclaw host, use the Tideclaw `gh` write wrapper below. - When an alpha, beta, or repair branch needs to discover or reuse b…

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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.