youtube-watcher Security Audit Report

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youtube-watcher is an AI agent skill, created by michaelgathara and published at openclaw/skills. ClawSecure audited youtube-watcher across 3 files through the 3-Layer Audit Protocol covering all ten OWASP ASI Top 10 categories, assigning a security score of 75/100 (Medium Risk). The 3 findings concentrate in Command Injection, Permissions Manifest and Policy Violation, including Dangerous combination of code execution and system commands… and Missing config.json - agent may not be properly configured. 1 was rated high or critical severity.

Is youtube-watcher safe?

ClawSecure audited youtube-watcher and assigned a security score of 75/100 (Medium Risk), identifying 3 findings across Command Injection and Permissions Manifest. Review the findings below before installing.

What did ClawSecure find in youtube-watcher?

ClawSecure identified 3 findings in youtube-watcher, concentrated in Command Injection, Permissions Manifest and Policy Violation. 1 was rated high or critical severity. The most severe include Dangerous combination of code execution and system commands… and Missing config.json - agent may not be properly configured.

How was youtube-watcher audited?

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

What does a score of 75 mean?

ClawSecure assigned youtube-watcher a security score of 75/100, placing it in the Medium Risk range. This reflects 3 findings led by Command Injection that warrant review before production 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 youtube-watcher

ClawSecure detected 3 security findings in youtube-watcher, spanning Command Injection, Permissions Manifest and Policy Violation.

critical · Dangerous combination of code execution and system commands…. Command Injection finding detected in scripts/get_transcript.py.
medium · Missing config.json - agent may not be properly configured. Permissions Manifest finding.
info · Missing License Declaration. Policy Violation finding detected in SKILL.md.

Each finding is expandable in the interactive list below.

3-Layer Audit Protocol

Security Recommendations for youtube-watcher

Harden command execution

youtube-watcher constructs or runs system commands. Validate that commands are built only from trusted inputs, never pass user-controlled strings directly to a shell, and restrict execution to an allow-list of expected commands.

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.

Resolve policy violations

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

Pin dependencies to exact versions

Unpinned dependencies allow supply-chain attacks where a compromised version is pulled in automatically. Use exact version numbers in package.json (for example 1.2.3 instead of ^1.2.3) to keep unauthorized code out of your dependency tree. ClawSecure checks every dependency against known CVE databases.

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Scanned on February 18, 2026. youtube-watcher 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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