skill-pre-install-scanner

Pre-install safety check for ClawHub skills — scans for the 3 highest-risk signals before anything lands on disk. Free taster. Full 10-signal scanner in the ClawHub Security Pack.

Safety Notice

This listing is from the official public ClawHub registry. Review SKILL.md and referenced scripts before running.

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Install skill "skill-pre-install-scanner" with this command: npx skills add ordo-tech/skill-pre-install-scanner

Pre-Install Scanner (Free)

Intercept a clawhub install request and run a quick safety check — before anything is written to disk.

Signals included (free version — 3 of 10):

SignalTierWhat it catches
shell+network comboHIGHexec + outbound network in same skill — classic exfil pattern
hardcoded-external-urlHIGHRaw external URLs embedded in instructions
unverified-publisherMEDIUMPublisher has no verified badge on clawhub.com

Not included (full version — Security Pack):

  • Data exfiltration pattern detection
  • Suspicious exec chain analysis (curl | bash, base64 -d | bash)
  • Source unreachable handling
  • Missing/vague description flag
  • Excessive permissions check
  • New publisher signal
  • No changelog signal

Get all 10 signals → ClawHub Security Pack


When to run

  • "Install [skill-name] from ClawHub" — runs automatically before install
  • "Is [skill-name] safe to install?" — on-demand scan
  • "clawhub install [skill-name]" — intercepts and scans first

Output format

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔍 Pre-Install Scan (Free — 3/10 signals): <skill-name>
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Publisher : <name> [verified / unverified]
Version   : <version>
Risk      : LOW | MEDIUM | HIGH

Flags:
  ⚠️  <signal>  — <one-line explanation>

Summary: <1–2 sentences>
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

*Full 10-signal scan: https://theagentgordo.gumroad.com/l/clawhub-security-pack*

Actions by rating

RatingAction
LOWProceed with install
MEDIUMWarn user, ask for confirmation
HIGHBlock install. Requires --force to override

Requirements

  • web_fetch — to retrieve the SKILL.md from ClawHub
  • web_search — to check publisher standing
  • No API keys required

Support

https://clawhub.com/@ordo-tech | Full pack: https://theagentgordo.gumroad.com/l/clawhub-security-pack

Source Transparency

This detail page is rendered from real SKILL.md content. Trust labels are metadata-based hints, not a safety guarantee.

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