clawk: Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop

by clawkwork · Codex Skill · ★ 973

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How to install clawk

brew install clawkwork/tap/clawk
git clone https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk && cd clawk

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 67/100

Flagged: sudo usage. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars973
Forks36
LanguageGo
CategoryCodex Skill
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score67/100
Last Updated2026-08-13
Created2026-07-06
Platformsclaude-code, codex, go
Est. Tokens~20k

About clawk

Give a coding agent its own disposable Linux machine, not yours. -lightgrey) Install · Quickstart · Why a VM? · How it works · Compared to · FAQ · Docs A coding agent is only useful when you let it actually do things: install packages, run the code it writes, start servers, use the network. On your own machine that leaves two bad options.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with clawk for enhanced workflows:

  • clawker — semantic(0.45)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (70%)
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  • greywall — semantic(0.51)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (68%)
  • Containarium — semantic(0.30)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (65%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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