Is vmware-harden@1.19.2 safe to install?

vmware-harden@1.19.2

VERIFIED· install only

Publisher claims: "Use this skill whenever the user needs to perform VMware cyber compliance auditing (aligned with VCF 9 Advanced Cyber Compliance / ACC), baseline checking, or drift detection on vSphere/ESXi/NSX environments. Directly handles: CIS / vSphere SCG / 等保 2.0 三级 / PCI-DSS / BSI IT-Grundschutz / EU NIS2 scans; known-vulnerability (VMSA) matching of ESXi/vCenter builds; custom YAML baselines; LLM-driven remediation suggestions; web dashboard. Always use this skill for "scan compliance", "check baseline", "audit etcd", "check 等保", "drift detection", "compliance report", "cyber compliance scan", "ACC posture", "STIG check", "check VMSA", "known vulnerabilities" when the context is explicitly VMware/vSphere/ESXi. Do NOT use for general vSphere monitoring (use vmware-monitor or vmware-aiops), network changes (use vmware-nsx), or executing remediations directly (this skill only suggests; execution goes through vmware-pilot)." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry ClawHubPublisher zw008 · publishing for 181 daysInstalls 3,963Last detonated 5d ago

$clawhub install vmware-harden

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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 2026-11-09 and scored it 88/100 (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

Persistence: instructs the agent to auto-load this skill in future sessionsSKILL.md:8 · Persistence: instructs the agent to auto-load this skill in future sessionsAlways use this skill for "scan compliance", "check baseline", "audit etcd",Fix: Remove the text that addresses the agent rather than the reader; describe behavior, do not instruct.

AST01

HIGH

Access to sensitive file pathsSKILL.md:191 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system files

The advisor falls back to a deterministic mock template when no API key is present. Set `export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=...` in your shell or in `~/.vmware-harden/.env` for live LLM-driven suggestions.

Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.

AST05

HIGH

Access to sensitive file pathsSKILL.md:217 · Access to sensitive file paths — SSH keys, AWS credentials, env files, or system files

…words are stored — all credentials live in the upstream skill (`~/.vmware-aiops/.env`). 3. **Webhook data scope**: none. Harden makes **no outbound network calls** …

Fix: Stop enumerating or reading credential locations; take secrets from a declared environment variable the user sets on purpose.

AST05

Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded

≈5,285 tok

1 file · 7 in bundle

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

Known vulnerabilities

Vulnerability advisories (OSV) cover npm and PyPI packages; this registry has no advisory database.