No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
by knostic · Codex Skill · ★ 89
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OpenClaw Shield - Alpha By Knostic openclaw-shield: Security plugin for OpenClaw. Prevents your AI agent from leaking secrets, exposing PII, or executing destructive commands. CRITICAL: OpenClaw gets updated constantly, and without community updates, it won't stay effective for more than mere days. already we had to update it several times. By Knostic Also check out: openclaw-detect: https://github.com/knostic/openclaw-detect/ openclaw-telemetry: https://github.com/knostic/openclaw-telemetry/ Like what we do? Knostic helps you with visibility and control of your coding agents and MCP/extensions, from Cursor and Claude Code, to Copilot. OpenClaw Shield Plugin - TL;DR Five layers of defense-in-depth security, each independently toggleable: too
| Stars | 89 |
| Forks | 11 |
| Language | TypeScript |
| Category | Codex Skill |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Quality Score | 74.2457316638411/100 |
| Open Issues | 8 |
| Last Updated | 2026-05-12 |
| Created | 2026-02-04 |
| Platforms | node |
| Est. Tokens | ~4k |
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openclaw-shield is Security plugin for OpenClaw agents - prevents secret leaks, PII exposure, and destructive command execution. It is categorized as a Codex Skill with 89 GitHub stars.
openclaw-shield is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as clawdbot-plugin, guardrails, openclaw.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the openclaw-shield GitHub repository at github.com/knostic/openclaw-shield. The project has 89 stars and 11 forks, indicating an active community.
openclaw-shield is released under the Apache-2.0 license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. 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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