---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/clawhub"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/clawhub/report.md"
package: "clawhub"
report_status: "published"
title: "clawhub@0.25.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.25.1"
---

# clawhub@0.25.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.25.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The package is a CLI with no install-time hook, and the flagged process call only reads the current Git commit. The inspected GitHub and account actions serve explicit CLI operations, with starring gated by confirmation or \`--yes\`; no malicious behavior was found.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 96.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-03T14:01:09.785Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-03T14:01:54.048Z
- **Download time:** 253 ms
- **Static scan time:** 936 ms
- **AI review time:** 43073 ms
- **Total time:** 44263 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No attack was identified; inspected behavior matches a ClawHub CLI for package and skill operations.

- **Trigger:** The CLI entry point loads the command interface; network and account actions are tied to invoked commands.

- **Impact:** No malicious impact identified in the inspected source.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-03T14:01:54.048Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** The inspected GitHub flow uses a GitHub token while retrieving repository content, the build-info call reads the local Git commit, and starring requires confirmation or an explicit --yes flag.

- **Rationale:** The package is a CLI with no install-time hook, and the flagged process call only reads the current Git commit. The inspected GitHub and account actions serve explicit CLI operations, with starring gated by confirmation or \`--yes\`; no malicious behavior was found.

- **Network endpoints:** github.com, api.github.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 96.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The package exposes \`clawdhub\` and \`clawhub\` as CLI binaries., The binary loads the CLI entry point; the manifest declares no install, preinstall, or postinstall hook., The build-info process call runs \`git rev-parse HEAD\` in the current working directory to read a commit ID., GitHub source fetching reads \`GITHUB\_TOKEN\` within the GitHub import flow; the source uses it to retrieve a user-selected repository., The star command asks for confirmation unless \`--yes\` is supplied, then requires the user's authentication token.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to clawhub@0.25.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of clawhub@0.25.1 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/buildInfo.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/clawhub@0.25.1/dist/cli/buildInfo.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { existsSync, readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
```

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 6. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 7. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/commands/github.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/clawhub@0.25.1/dist/cli/commands/github.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
L2: import { mkdir, mkdtemp, rm, stat, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
...
L11: function resolveGitHubApi() {
L12: const testUrl = process.env.CLAWHUB_TEST_GITHUB_API_URL?.trim();
L13: if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== "test" || !testUrl)
L14: return "https://api.github.com";
L15: const url = new URL(testUrl);
```

### 8. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 9. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/schema/templatePackage.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/clawhub@0.25.1/dist/schema/templatePackage.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 11. Low: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/clawhub@0.25.1/package.json>)

The package exposes \`clawdhub\` and \`clawhub\` as CLI binaries.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"bin": {
    "clawdhub": "bin/clawdhub.js",
    "clawhub": "bin/clawdhub.js"
  },
  "files": [
    "bin",
    "dist",
    "README.md",
    "LICENSE"
  ],
  "type": "module",
  "publishConfig": {
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 96.0%
- **Path:** bin/clawdhub.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/clawhub@0.25.1/bin/clawdhub.js>)

The binary loads the CLI entry point; the manifest declares no install, preinstall, or postinstall hook.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
#!/usr/bin/env node
try {
  await import("../dist/cli.js");
} catch (error) {
  const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 15
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 15

### Published dependency entries
- @clack/prompts 1.8.1 (Dependency)
- @openclaw/plugin-inspector 0.4.5 (Dependency)
- arktype 2.2.9 (Dependency)
- commander 15.0.0 (Dependency)
- croner 10.0.1 (Dependency)
- fflate 0.8.3 (Dependency)
- ignore 7.0.14 (Dependency)
- json5 2.2.3 (Dependency)
- mime 4.1.2 (Dependency)
- ora 9.4.1 (Dependency)
- p-retry 8.0.1 (Dependency)
- semver 7.8.5 (Dependency)
- undici 7.30.1 (Dependency)
- unicode-case-folding 1.1.2 (Dependency)
- yaml 2.9.1 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** clawhub
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.25.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-03T13:55:45.671Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-29T22:55:51.871Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-03T14:01:54.048Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.25.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** ClawHub CLI \\u2014 install, update, search, and publish skills plus OpenClaw packages.
- **Maintainers:** steipete
- **Runtime engines:** node: ^22.13.0 || \>=24
- **Artifact files:** 151
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,299,374 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/clawhub>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/openclaw/clawhub>)
- [Homepage](<https://clawhub.ai/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/openclaw/clawhub/issues>)
