security-auditor

What This Skill Does

The security-auditor skill transforms your OpenClaw AI agent into a seasoned application security engineer. It provides a structured, rigorous methodology for evaluating source code, infrastructure, and application architecture. Built on the foundation of the OWASP Top 10, this skill moves beyond surface-level linting to perform deep architectural reviews. It helps developers identify complex vulnerabilities like broken access controls, insecure cryptographic implementations, and injection flaws, while providing concrete, production-ready remediation code. By integrating this skill, your agent can serve as an automated security reviewer during your CI/CD pipeline or as a persistent pair-programmer for drafting secure features.

Installation

To add the Security Auditor skill to your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal or integrated skill manager:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/jgarrison929/security-auditor

Ensure that your OpenClaw runtime has the necessary permissions to read the code repositories you intend to audit.

Use Cases

• Pre-Commit Code Reviews: Automatically audit pull requests for security regressions before they are merged into the main branch.
• Legacy Code Refactoring: Identify and document technical debt and security vulnerabilities in older codebases that lack modern protection headers or input validation.
• Authentication Flow Design: Use the agent to draft secure OAuth2, JWT-based, or session-management logic that follows the principle of least privilege.
• Compliance Audits: Quickly verify that your API surface area adheres to current OWASP standards.
• Secrets Management: Automatically scan for potential hardcoded credentials or API keys that have been accidentally committed to your repository.

Example Prompts

1. "Review this Express.js authentication middleware for potential broken access control issues and suggest a more robust implementation."
2. "Perform an OWASP Top 10 audit on my current SQL query patterns and refactor them to use parameterized queries to prevent SQL injection."
3. "Analyze my current CORS and CSP headers configuration and recommend a strict policy that allows only my production domains."

Tips & Limitations

For the best results, provide the agent with the relevant context, such as the specific framework being used (e.g., NestJS, Django, or Go Fiber) and the environment details. Please note that while the security-auditor is highly effective at identifying logic flaws and common vulnerability patterns, it does not replace a comprehensive human penetration test or a specialized static analysis security testing (SAST) tool. Always verify suggested security patches in a staging environment before deploying to production, and ensure that secrets are managed through environment variables or dedicated secret managers rather than relying on the agent to 'fix' them in code.