preflight-checks Security Audit Report

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preflight-checks is an AI agent skill, created by Prometheus (OpenClaw Agent) and published at openclaw/skills. ClawSecure audited preflight-checks across 11 files through the 3-Layer Audit Protocol covering all ten OWASP ASI Top 10 categories, assigning a security score of 0/100 (High Risk). The 14 findings concentrate in Malicious Code, Policy Violation and Skill Discovery Abuse, including Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md and Attempts to access sensitive file: SOUL.md. 11 were rated high or critical severity.

Is preflight-checks safe?

ClawSecure audited preflight-checks and assigned a security score of 0/100 (High Risk), identifying 14 findings across Malicious Code and Policy Violation. Review the findings below before installing.

What did ClawSecure find in preflight-checks?

ClawSecure identified 14 findings in preflight-checks, concentrated in Malicious Code, Policy Violation and Skill Discovery Abuse. 11 were rated high or critical severity. The most severe include Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md and Attempts to access sensitive file: SOUL.md.

How was preflight-checks audited?

ClawSecure ran preflight-checks through its 3-Layer Audit Protocol with full OWASP ASI Top 10 coverage, scanning 11 files from openclaw/skills.

What does a score of 0 mean?

ClawSecure assigned preflight-checks a security score of 0/100, placing it in the High Risk range. This is driven by 14 findings led by Malicious Code that should be addressed before use. ClawSecure derives this score with a weighted deduction model (critical -20, high -10, medium -5, low -2 from a base of 100).

Audit Findings for preflight-checks

ClawSecure detected 14 security findings in preflight-checks, spanning Malicious Code, Policy Violation, Skill Discovery Abuse and Permissions Manifest.

high · Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md. Malicious Code finding detected in CHANGELOG.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: SOUL.md. Malicious Code finding detected in README.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md. Malicious Code finding detected in README.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: SOUL.md. Malicious Code finding detected in SKILL.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md. Malicious Code finding detected in SKILL.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md. Malicious Code finding detected in ANSWERS-prometheus.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: SOUL.md. Malicious Code finding detected in CHECKS-prometheus.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md. Malicious Code finding detected in CHECKS-prometheus.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md. Malicious Code finding detected in ANSWERS-template.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: SOUL.md. Malicious Code finding detected in CHECKS-template.md.
high · Attempts to access sensitive file: MEMORY.md. Malicious Code finding detected in CHECKS-template.md.
medium · Detects protocol manipulation via capability inflation in skill.... Skill Discovery Abuse finding detected in SKILL.md:268.

Showing the 12 highest-severity of 14 findings. The full interactive list appears below.

3-Layer Audit Protocol

Security Recommendations for preflight-checks

Audit external network connections

preflight-checks connects to external endpoints. Verify every outbound connection goes to a trusted destination. Unauthorized callbacks are a primary indicator of ClawHavoc malware and data exfiltration. ClawSecure's proprietary engine monitors for known malicious endpoints including C2 infrastructure.

Resolve policy violations

preflight-checks trips ClawSecure policy checks. Review each flagged pattern against your security policy and remediate or document an accepted exception before production use.

Add a config.json permissions manifest

A config.json file declares what an agent component can access: file system, network, shell execution and more. Without it, users have no visibility into what the component can do before installing. This is the single most impactful security improvement for any AI agent skill.

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Scanned on February 7, 2026. preflight-checks is one of thousands of agents audited by ClawSecure from the community-curated awesome-openclaw-skills list and the openclaw/skills repository.

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