Is media-bias-news-skill@0.1.0 safe to install?

Skills/ClawHub/media-bias-news-skill

media-bias-news-skill@0.1.0

VERIFIED· install only

Publisher claims: "Read the news with the coverage split attached, and check whether a news outlet is biased, using the free MediaBias.news API. Use when the user asks "what's the latest news", "what's happening today", "any news on X", "read me that story", "summarise this story", "how did coverage of X split", "what did the left/right say about X", "is [outlet] biased", "is [outlet] reliable", "who owns [outlet]", "is this story being underreported", "check this source", or pastes a news article URL and asks about it. Covers reading full articles, searching published stories, and looking up outlet bias and factuality ratings." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry ClawHubPublisher fspecii · publishing for 78 daysInstalls 408Last detonated 29 h ago

$clawhub install media-bias-news-skill

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Coverage

Nothing executable in the bundle ran; the trace covers the install step only.

Tested: every file read, file written and host contacted by what ran
Not tested: use of the skill by an agent

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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (1 scenario; nothing executable in the bundle ran; the trace covers the install step only) on 2026-11-08 and scored it 93/100 (Verified). In what ran, nothing we could detect went wrong: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. What it does with a real credential was not observed; the static findings and the publisher carry the rest of the score. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Behavior trace

Honeypot run · 0 s · 1 scenarios · 0 deviations

t+CategoryObserved action

0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle

0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only

0.0sprocessno install scripts to re-run

Static findings

HIGH

Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesSKILL.md:199 · Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction files* **Codex:** append the body to `AGENTS.md` at the repository root.Fix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.

AST01

LOW

Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction filesREADME.md:116 · Instructs the agent to modify its persistent memory or instruction files · informational: not an instruction file| Codex | append the body to `AGENTS.md` at the repo root |Fix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.

AST01

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded

≈2,131 tok

1 file · 3 in bundle

Tokens estimated at four characters each. Skills load their instruction text when triggered; the figure is what that costs.

Known vulnerabilities

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