security-audit

What This Skill Does

The security-audit skill transforms your OpenClaw agent into a powerful cybersecurity assistant capable of auditing codebases, infrastructure, and configuration files. It provides deep visibility into your project's security posture by identifying vulnerabilities, detecting leaked credentials, and verifying compliance with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10. By leveraging both native language tooling (npm, pip, cargo, govulncheck) and universal scanners like Trivy, the agent can perform automated assessments across diverse technology stacks to minimize risk before deployment.

Installation

To integrate this capability into your environment, run the following installation command in your agent interface:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/gitgoodordietrying/security-audit-toolkit

Ensure your agent has the necessary permissions to execute system-level commands and access your source code directories to allow the underlying scanners (e.g., Trivy, grep) to perform a recursive audit of your file structure.

Use Cases

This skill is indispensable for security-conscious development workflows. Use it to:

• Automatically identify outdated dependencies with known CVEs in Node.js, Python, Go, and Rust projects.
• Perform sanity checks for hardcoded API keys, database credentials, or AWS tokens before committing to version control.
• Scan Docker images for OS-level vulnerabilities that could compromise containerized deployments.
• Validate file permission structures to ensure sensitive configuration files are not world-readable.
• Audit existing source code for common injection vulnerabilities, insecure authentication patterns, and cross-site scripting (XSS) risks.

Example Prompts

1. "Perform a high-level security audit on this directory, focusing specifically on detecting any hardcoded AWS keys or database connection strings."
2. "Run a dependency vulnerability scan on my package.json file and provide a summary of the critical issues along with fix recommendations."
3. "Verify the SSL/TLS configuration for our production API endpoint and check the local infrastructure for any lax file permissions."

Tips & Limitations

While automated tools are powerful, they are not a replacement for manual peer review. Use the grep-based patterns as a first-line defense but combine them with rigorous automated CI/CD gating. Always verify that your Trivy and language-specific tools are updated regularly to ensure they have the latest vulnerability databases. Note that secret detection through regex can generate false positives; treat audit results as actionable alerts rather than definitive security breaches.