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Trust Report v1

verify-release

Verify an OpenClaw release is fully published across GitHub, npm, plugins, ClawHub, package smoke, and live Gateway agent turns.

Overall
70
Trust
44
Utility
88
Momentum
95

Install caution

High-risk behavior present

Risk: High

Source: OpenClaw Built-in Skills

Path: .agents/skills/verify-release/SKILL.md

Review flags: browser/session access, credential or secret references, 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
  • • 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.

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: -48 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: 13.
  • • 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: 379781 stars.
  • • Fork activity suggests reuse: 79500 forks.

Overall

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

Detected signals

Env vars

  • • OPENAI_API_KEY

Commands

  • • $release-openclaw-maintainer
  • • /tmp/openclaw-v<VERSION>-src
  • • HOME=/tmp/openclaw-release-smoke/home OPENCLAW_WORKSPACE=/tmp/openclaw-release-smoke/work pnpm openclaw --dev gateway run --auth none --force --verbose
  • • gh api repos/openclaw/openclaw/actions/runs/<RUN>/jobs --paginate
  • • gh release view v<VERSION> --repo openclaw/openclaw --json tagName,name,publishedAt,isDraft,isPrerelease,targetCommitish,url,body,assets
  • • https://api.github.com/repos/openclaw/openclaw/tarball/v<VERSION>
  • • npm exec --yes --package openclaw@<VERSION> -- openclaw --version
  • • npm view openclaw@<VERSION> version dist-tags.latest dist.tarball dist.integrity time.<VERSION> --json
  • • openclaw --dev gateway health --json
  • • openclaw plugins install clawhub:@openclaw/matrix --pin
  • • openclaw plugins search <known-plugin> --json
  • • openclaw.release.publishToClawHub === true

URLs

  • • https://api.github.com/repos/openclaw/openclaw/tarball/v<VERSION

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/verify-release/SKILL.md
source blob SHA
f1b1fc0e9cc2e69c35c3397e3d217df42120075c
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

…claw --dev gateway health --json`. - Run one Gateway-backed agent turn with inherited `OPENAI_API_KEY`, short prompt, explicit session key, JSON output, and a known-available model. -…

network_access

…heckout is dirty or divergent, use it only for scripts/reference. For version metadata, fetch from GitHub release/tag or unpack the tag tarball under `/tmp`. - Never print secrets.…

browser_or_session_access

…ne Gateway-backed agent turn with inherited `OPENAI_API_KEY`, short prompt, explicit session key, JSON output, and a known-available model. - If the configured default model fails…

shell_command

…e: `yes/no`, evidence bullets, caveats, cleanup. ## Core Checks 1. GitHub release: - `gh release view v<VERSION> --repo openclaw/openclaw --json tagName,name,publishedAt,isDraft,isPrerelease,targetCommitish,url,body,assets` - Confirm stable releases are not d

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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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