newsapi-search
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Oct 8, 2026
Risk Level: SAFE
Full Analysis
- [SAFE]: The skill provides a clean implementation for searching news articles and listing sources through the official NewsAPI service. It utilizes built-in Node.js modules for network and file system operations, avoiding unnecessary third-party dependencies.
- [SAFE]: Configuration and sensitive credentials (API keys) are managed through environment variables loaded from a dedicated configuration directory (
~/.openclaw/.env), which is a secure and standard practice for secret management. - [SAFE]: All network requests are directed to the well-known and established domain
newsapi.org. No patterns suggestive of unauthorized data exfiltration or connections to suspicious domains were found. - [SAFE]: No evidence of prompt injection, code obfuscation, persistence mechanisms, or privilege escalation was found in the scripts, metadata, or documentation.
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