openclaw-trust

openclaw-trust is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenCoven/coven. It costs 43 tokens per session (519 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security guide for OpenClaw workflows, skills, channels, prompts, and tool execution. It applies a threat model mapped to MITRE ATLAS, a framework for describing attacks on AI systems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review trust boundaries, restrict senders and channels, add approval steps for actions that change data, validate tool arguments, control skill sources, and apply least-privilege access.
Why use it?
It helps identify risks such as prompt injection, stolen tokens, unsafe tool permissions, and malicious skill updates before an automation is deployed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to review trust boundaries, restrict senders and channels, add approval steps for actions that change data, validate tool arguments, control skill sources, and apply least-privilege access.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opencoven/coven/openclaw-trust
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add OpenCoven/coven --skill openclaw-trust
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 519 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00519
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00260
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00052

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9bc078e4ac54, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw-trust scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/openclaw-trust/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Trust

Use this skill when the user asks about security posture, threat modeling, attack vectors, trust boundaries, or safe rollout decisions for OpenClaw automations.

Source of truth

  • Repo: openclaw/trust
  • Core files:
    • threats.yaml — machine-readable threat model
    • CONTRIBUTING.md — how to submit threats/mitigations/chains
  • Public render: trust.openclaw.ai/trust/threatmodel
  • Vulnerability reporting: [email protected]

What to apply in practice

1) Default to the highest-risk classes first

Prioritize controls for risks repeatedly marked high/critical in the trust model:

  • Prompt injection (direct + indirect)
  • Malicious skills / compromised skill updates
  • Token theft from local config
  • Tool argument injection and command execution abuse
  • MCP/tool over-permission

2) Translate trust model into concrete controls

When recommending hardening, prefer specific actions:

  • Default-deny sender/channel access (AllowFrom least privilege)
  • Approval gates for state-changing actions
  • Strict tool argument validation (no free-form shell interpolation)
  • Limit/monitor skill install/update sources
  • Least-privilege MCP server config
  • Audit logs for new sender authorization + sensitive actions
  • Token hygiene (rotation, minimize plaintext exposure)

3) Separate threat reporting vs vuln disclosure

  • Threat model additions/updates → openclaw/trust issues/PRs
  • Live exploitable vulnerabilities → responsible disclosure via Trust page/security email

Contribution pattern (for writing trust updates)

When drafting a new threat proposal, include:

  • scenario + attack path
  • affected OpenClaw components
  • rough risk estimate
  • suggested mitigation(s)

Maintainers will map to MITRE ATLAS tactic/technique + assign IDs.

Fast mental checklist for risky automation

  • Can untrusted content reach prompt/tool parameters?
  • Is there a hard approval gate before side effects?
  • Could this run with broader permissions than required?
  • Is sender/tool/source authenticated and allowlisted?
  • Are outputs validated before execution/posting/sending?

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 8d ago First seen · 65 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 9bc078e4ac54

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openclaw-trust is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (47 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 519 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.