openclaw-security

openclaw-security is a skill for Claude Code from TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,695 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security guide for OpenClaw, a personal-assistant system that can connect to tools and networks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing and hardening OpenClaw, managing secrets, rotating credentials, responding to incidents, and configuring authentication, Tailscale, or reverse proxies.
Why use it?
It helps identify unsafe access rules, exposed services, weak credentials, risky browser controls, file-permission issues, and other security gaps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the openclaw plugin — 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Auditing and hardening OpenClaw, managing secrets, rotating credentials, responding to incidents, and configuring authentication, Tailscale, or reverse proxies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-security
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 TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin --skill openclaw-security
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,695 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00060 $0.01695
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00847
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00169

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4029764942c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw-security scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 12d 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

chmod 700 ~/.openclaw # user only

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/openclaw/skills/openclaw-security/SKILL.md · 237 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 237 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Security

Guide the user through security auditing, hardening, secrets management, and incident response.

Trust model: OpenClaw is a personal assistant — one trusted operator boundary per gateway. It is not a hostile multi-tenant security boundary. For mixed-trust users, split trust boundaries (separate gateways, ideally separate OS users/hosts).

Security Audit

openclaw security audit              # Standard audit
openclaw security audit --deep       # Deep audit with live Gateway probe
openclaw security audit --fix        # Auto-fix supported findings
openclaw security audit --json       # Machine-readable output

What It Checks

  • Inbound access — DM policies, group policies, allowlists
  • Tool blast radius — elevated tools + open rooms
  • Network exposure — Gateway bind/auth, Tailscale, weak tokens
  • Browser control — remote nodes, relay ports, CDP endpoints
  • Disk hygiene — permissions, symlinks, config includes
  • Plugins — extensions without explicit allowlist
  • Policy drift — sandbox config but mode off, runtime expectation drift
  • Model hygiene — legacy/small models with tool access

Severity Levels

Severity Action
CRITICAL Fix immediately — active exposure
WARNING Fix soon — potential risk
INFO Informational — best practice suggestion

File Permissions

Keep config and state private:

chmod 700 ~/.openclaw               # user only
chmod 600 ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json  # user read/write only

openclaw doctor warns and can fix permissions automatically.

Network Security

Gateway Bind Modes

Mode Listens On Use Case
loopback (default) 127.0.0.1 Local-only, most secure
lan All interfaces LAN access (needs auth)
tailscale Tailscale interface VPN-secured remote access

Gateway Authentication

{
  gateway: {
    auth: {
      mode: "token",                    // "token" | "password" | "none"
      token: "${OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN}",
    },
  },
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 237 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 237 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 4029764942c9

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openclaw-security is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,695 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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