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A community plugin (@lobstah/openclaw-provider, an OpenAI-compat provider for the lobstah federated grid) is being marked suspicious by ClawHub's static-analysis scanner across versions 0.0.6 → 0.0.14, including releases that pass every rule in the open-source openclaw/src/security/skill-scanner.ts. The CLI doesn't surface which rule fires, only the aggregate verdict.

$ clawhub package moderation-status @lobstah/openclaw-provider --json
{
  "latestRelease": {
    "scanStatus": "suspicious",
    "reasons": ["scan:suspicious", "static:suspicious"],
    ...
  }
}

Root Cause

A community plugin (@lobstah/openclaw-provider, an OpenAI-compat provider for the lobstah federated grid) is being marked suspicious by ClawHub's static-analysis scanner across versions 0.0.6 → 0.0.14, including releases that pass every rule in the open-source openclaw/src/security/skill-scanner.ts. The CLI doesn't surface which rule fires, only the aggregate verdict.

$ clawhub package moderation-status @lobstah/openclaw-provider --json
{
  "latestRelease": {
    "scanStatus": "suspicious",
    "reasons": ["scan:suspicious", "static:suspicious"],
    ...
  }
}

Code Example

$ clawhub package moderation-status @lobstah/openclaw-provider --json
{
  "latestRelease": {
    "scanStatus": "suspicious",
    "reasons": ["scan:suspicious", "static:suspicious"],
    ...
  }
}
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Summary

A community plugin (@lobstah/openclaw-provider, an OpenAI-compat provider for the lobstah federated grid) is being marked suspicious by ClawHub's static-analysis scanner across versions 0.0.6 → 0.0.14, including releases that pass every rule in the open-source openclaw/src/security/skill-scanner.ts. The CLI doesn't surface which rule fires, only the aggregate verdict.

$ clawhub package moderation-status @lobstah/openclaw-provider --json
{
  "latestRelease": {
    "scanStatus": "suspicious",
    "reasons": ["scan:suspicious", "static:suspicious"],
    ...
  }
}

What we've already cleared (verified by per-file regex audit

against the published tarball)

RulePatternFound in 0.0.14 tarball?
dangerous-execexec(/spawn( + child_processNo
dynamic-code-executioneval(/new Function(No
crypto-miningstratum+tcp etc.No
suspicious-networknew WebSocket("wss?://...:N")No
potential-exfiltrationreadFile/Sync + fetch/postNo (split into a network-free share-state.ts)
obfuscated-code (hex / base64)\\x.. runs / 200-char base64No
env-harvestingprocess.env + fetch/postNo (split into env-config.ts)

We also converted a dynamic await import("openclaw/plugin-sdk/...") call to a static import * as ... to avoid the dynamic-import heuristic some scanners apply (and rewrote any comment text that contained the literal trigger substrings, since the scanner is substring/regex-based and even prose mentioning verbatim API names trips it).

Verdict still: suspicious after multiple rescans.

What we're asking

  1. Could the CLI's package inspect / moderation-status output include the specific rule(s) and file:line that fired? Right now third-party publishers can only iterate blindly against the open-source rules and hope to hit whatever the server-side scanner is keying on.
  2. If there are server-side rules beyond skill-scanner.ts, would you consider documenting them (or at least the rule IDs) so community publishers can write conformant code?
  3. For our specific case: any pointer on what's tripping at this point would be appreciated. Happy to share the tarball directly.

The verdict is non-blocking (install proceeds), but it shows in the Review badge on every plugin install, which is unfortunate UX for plugins that have actually addressed every visible rule.

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