Yao Doctor Skill

SkillSecurity

Audit local and OpenClaw skill libraries for privacy theft, credential theft, stealthy exfiltration, unsafe execution chains, deceptive instructions, and persistence behavior, then generate a visual HTML security report. Use when Codex needs to security-review one skill or a full skill library before install, enablement, or execution. Do not use for generic cleanup, usage estimation, or app-level security review outside skill packages.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the Yao Doctor Skill skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by yaojingang/yao-open-skills in skills/yao-doctor-skill/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Boundary

Own this recurring job: security-review skill packages as untrusted code and untrusted instructions, separate broad capability risk from actual unsafe behavior, and produce evidence-backed recommendations before the skills are installed or executed.

Do not route here for:

  • generic code security reviews outside skill folders
  • skill cleanup, archival, deduplication, or stale-usage analysis
  • privacy policy writing without scanning files
  • creating a brand-new skill with no security audit need

Default Workflow

  1. Run scripts/run_yao_doctor_skill.py [root] [more-roots]. If no roots are provided, auto-discover the current workspace, OpenClaw skill roots, Codex and Claude local skill roots, Codex plugin-cache skills, supported local workbench configuration surfaces, and project-level workbench surfaces such as repo AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, or selected .claude/.codex files.
  2. Scan every discovered skill directory containing SKILL.md, plus recognized workbench surfaces such as local Codex and Claude configuration bundles and project-local agent configuration areas.
  3. For each skill, score two separate layers:
    • capability risk: what the skill can access or execute
    • unsafe behavior: what the skill appears to do with sensitive data or hidden actions
  4. Reuse the incremental cache when possible, and surface per-target diffs plus evidence type and confidence in the final report.
  5. Generate _yao_doctor_skill_reports/<timestamp>/report.html, report.json, and report.md. Also update the stable entry:
    • full scans -> _yao_doctor_skill_reports/full-library-latest/report.html
    • changed-only scans -> _yao_doctor_skill_reports/changed-only-latest/report.html
  6. Summarize the highest-severity findings first, with exact paths, lines, evidence type, confidence, and the reason a finding is merely risky, suspicious, unsafe, or critical.

Security Principles

  • Do not equate broad permissions with automatic compromise.
  • Treat a skill as unsafe only when there is evidence of privacy theft, credential theft, stealthy exfiltration, deceptive behavior, remote execution, or persistence abuse.
  • Distinguish capability from intent. A skill may be powerful without being malicious.
  • Escalate hard when a sensitive source and an external sink appear in the same execution path or file.
  • Favor precise path-level evidence over generic suspicion.
  • Stay read-only unless the user explicitly authorizes destructive or quarantine actions.

Outputs

Primary artifact:

  • visual HTML security report with the fixed section order:
    • overview
    • data analysis
    • definitions
    • module guide
    • skill modules
    • footer credit

Current interactive contract:

  • sticky top navigation
  • Chinese default with English toggle
  • linked type filters between data analysis and module list
  • module cards with audit opinion, findings, and capability evidence
  • stable latest report entry for in-app browsing and reuse

Per skill, include:

  • absolute path
  • declared skill name and one-line summary
  • capability risk score and level
  • unsafe behavior score and level
  • final disposition: safe, risky, suspicious, unsafe, or critical
  • top capabilities discovered
  • concrete findings with file path, line, category, severity, rationale, and recommended action

Resources

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Aug 2026

ahel review

  • K6info
    bundled executables the agent is told to run
  • K1info
    remote-installer-piped-to-shell (in scripts/build_public_example_report.py)
  • K1info
    remote-installer-piped-to-shell (in docs/example-report/report.html)
  • K1info
    remote-installer-piped-to-shell (in docs/example-report/report.json)
  • K1info
    remote-installer-piped-to-shell (in evals/pressure_suite/doc-only-threat-notes/references/red-team-notes.md)
  • K2info
    exfiltration (in evals/pressure_suite/doc-only-threat-notes/references/red-team-notes.md)

Automated review, not a security audit. Ruleset v1+k2.

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Item type
skill
Key
yao-doctor-skill
Source
github.com/yaojingang/yao-open-skills