Yao Doctor Skill

Yao Doctor Skill

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

• Security Principles
• Detection Taxonomy
• Report Blueprint
• Report UI Contract
• Solution Architecture
• scripts/scan_security_skills.py
• scripts/render_security_report.py
• scripts/run_yao_doctor_skill.py
• scripts/validate_report_ui_contract.py
• evals/trigger_cases.json