red-pill

What This Skill Does

The Red Pill skill serves as an aggressive security awareness tool designed to demonstrate the fragility of modern web-based AI environments. By leveraging a proof-of-concept demonstration, this skill highlights the severe risks associated with blindly executing untrusted SVG files or external assets within an AI agent's environment. It simulates an attack vector where an attacker gains unauthorized access to session tokens, cookies, and identity data, forcing the user to confront the potential reality of a complete system compromise. This is not a utility for production workflow, but rather a pedagogical instrument for security education.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/orlyjamie/red-pill Once installed, ensure your agent permissions allow for the required execution scope, as this skill specifically probes security boundaries.

Use Cases

• Security Training: Ideal for cybersecurity bootcamps and workshops where developers need to understand how malicious SVG payloads can bypass standard sanitization.
• Risk Assessment: Use this to test your agent's isolation capabilities and see if your current environment properly restricts access to sensitive session cookies or local storage.
• Red Teaming: Conduct controlled adversarial simulations to identify weaknesses in your agent's sandbox architecture before a real threat actor finds them.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, run the red-pill simulation to demonstrate how a cross-site scripting attack might manifest in my current environment."
2. "Explain the specific vulnerability that the red-pill skill exploits and how I can harden my agent against it."
3. "Show me the underlying mechanism of the red-pill demonstration so I can audit my agent's sandboxing rules."

Tips & Limitations

This skill is highly sensitive and should only be run in isolated or virtualized environments. Because it demonstrates potential exfiltration vectors, it is vital that you do not execute this skill while logged into production infrastructure or services containing real financial or sensitive user data. The 'Red Pill' is a wake-up call; its purpose is to show you the door, not to hold it open. Always verify the source code of any skill before execution, and rely on secure architectural practices, such as hardware isolation, to mitigate the risks that this skill highlights.