auth-auditor

What This Skill Does

The auth-auditor skill is a specialized security analysis tool designed to perform deep, pattern-based audits of authentication codebases. It automatically traverses your source code to identify critical vulnerabilities such as weak password hashing, missing CSRF tokens, insecure cookie flags, and JWT implementation errors. By leveraging automated analysis paired with contextual AI feedback, it provides not just a list of found issues, but actionable, code-level remediation steps to secure your user accounts against common attack vectors.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, use the provided clawhub command. Ensure you have Node.js 18+ installed on your system as it is a prerequisite for the underlying scanning engine.

Run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/lxgicstudios/auth-auditor

No additional API keys or configuration files are required to initiate the first scan.

Use Cases

This skill is essential during the following project phases:

1. Pre-Deployment Security Review: Run the auditor before pushing any authentication-related changes to production to ensure no critical security headers or hashing standards were overlooked.
2. Legacy Code Refactoring: When auditing older codebases that lack modern security standards, this tool highlights outdated hashing libraries and insecure session handling.
3. Custom Authentication Flows: If you have built a proprietary auth system rather than using managed providers like Auth0 or Clerk, this tool acts as an automated security engineer to verify your implementation logic.

Example Prompts

1. "auth-auditor please scan my src/auth/login.ts file to see if I'm using secure password hashing and check my session cookie flags."
2. "Run a full security audit on the entire project directory and report all high-severity findings related to JWT usage."
3. "After the auth-auditor scan, provide me with a breakdown of why my CSRF protection implementation might be flagged as missing or insecure."

Tips & Limitations

To maximize effectiveness, always run the scan against the root directory of your project. Note that while this tool excels at identifying common vulnerabilities, it performs static analysis. It cannot simulate runtime attack scenarios like real-world exploit attempts. Ensure your code is clean and linted for the best results. Always prioritize fixing issues with 'high' severity tags first, and remember that no tool can replace a full manual security penetration test. Use this as a first line of defense to catch common mistakes early in the development lifecycle.