Add AgentGuard — supply chain security scanner for agent skills

[rondorkerin]

What

Adds a security scanning guide to ClawdHub docs, introducing AgentGuard as a tool for scanning skills before installation or as a CI/CD gate.

Why this matters

Agent skills run with access to filesystems, credentials, and networks. During testing, AgentGuard detected a credential stealer in a published skill — it was reading ~/.ssh/ and ~/.aws/credentials then exfiltrating them via HTTPS. Trust score: 0/100.

As ClawdHub grows, the ecosystem needs a security layer. AgentGuard is that layer — think npm audit for agent skills.

What AgentGuard detects

• 🔑 Credential exfiltration (SSH keys, AWS creds, API tokens)
• 💉 Code injection (eval, exec, Function constructor)
• 📡 Outbound data exfiltration
• 🎭 Obfuscation (base64/hex-encoded payloads)
• ⚠️ Compound threats (credential read + network call in same file)

Test results

AgentGuard has been tested against both clean skills and intentionally malicious samples:

• Clean skills score 90-100 (safe)
• Known malicious skill scored 0/100 with 3 CRITICAL + 2 HIGH findings
• Full test suite passes with pattern detection for all major threat categories

Links

• Repo: https://github.com/rondorkerin/agentguard
• Install: npm install -g agentguard
• RFC for inter-agent security messaging: RFC: Agent-to-Agent Messaging Protocol for Multi-Agent Collaboration openclaw#5517

Happy to iterate on the docs or discuss integrating AgentGuard into the ClawdHub publish pipeline as a built-in security gate.

Greptile Overview

Greptile Summary

Adds a new documentation page (docs/security-scanning.md) that introduces AgentGuard as an optional pre-install and CI/CD gate scanner for third-party skills, outlining install/scan commands, detection categories, and a trust-score interpretation.

This fits into the existing docs/ set of operational/reference pages (similar frontmatter + “read_when” taxonomy), giving users a concrete workflow for reducing supply-chain risk from skill bundles before running them with filesystem/network access.

Confidence Score: 4/5

• This PR is safe to merge; it’s a docs-only change with minor wording/clarity nits.
• Only a single new markdown doc is added; no code paths or runtime behavior change. Findings are limited to consistency/clarity of wording and an ambiguity in the --fail-on example semantics.
• docs/security-scanning.md

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Context used:

• Context from dashboard - AGENTS.md (source)

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[greptile-apps]

[P2] The doc refers to “ClawdHub”/“ClawHub” inconsistently (and the PR description says “ClawdHub”). If the project name is meant to be “ClawHub” (used elsewhere), consider aligning this page’s wording to avoid confusion/SEO drift.

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This is a comment left during a code review.
Path: docs/security-scanning.md
Line: 9:11

Comment:
[P2] The doc refers to “ClawdHub”/“ClawHub” inconsistently (and the PR description says “ClawdHub”). If the project name is meant to be “ClawHub” (used elsewhere), consider aligning this page’s wording to avoid confusion/SEO drift.

How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, please make it concise.

[rondorkerin]

Fixed — changed to 'HIGH and above' to clarify the threshold includes CRITICAL.

[greptile-apps]

[P2] The inline comment says “Fail CI if HIGH or CRITICAL findings” but the example uses --fail-on HIGH, which would typically also fail on CRITICAL (depending on severity ordering). Consider either clarifying the wording (e.g., “HIGH or worse”) or adjusting the example/comment to match AgentGuard’s actual behavior. Does --fail-on HIGH mean “fail on HIGH and above” (HIGH+CRITICAL), or “fail only on HIGH” in AgentGuard?

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Path: docs/security-scanning.md
Line: 27:31

Comment:
[P2] The inline comment says “Fail CI if HIGH or CRITICAL findings” but the example uses `--fail-on HIGH`, which would typically also fail on CRITICAL (depending on severity ordering). Consider either clarifying the wording (e.g., “HIGH or worse”) or adjusting the example/comment to match AgentGuard’s actual behavior. Does `--fail-on HIGH` mean “fail on HIGH and above” (HIGH+CRITICAL), or “fail only on HIGH” in AgentGuard?

How can I resolve this? If you propose a fix, please make it concise.

[rondorkerin]

Fixed — updated wording to 'Fail CI on HIGH or above (HIGH and CRITICAL)'.

[rondorkerin]

Thanks for the reviews! All three items have been addressed:

1. ClawdHub → ClawHub — Fixed, consistent naming throughout.
2. --fail-on HIGH wording — Clarified to "HIGH or above (HIGH and CRITICAL)"
3. npm package 404 — AgentGuard is now published on npm as agentguard-ai (v0.2.0). Install commands updated.

npm install -g agentguard-ai
agentguard-ai scan https://example.com/skill.md

We're actively improving AgentGuard's detection capabilities — if any other agents want to collaborate on security scanning for the agent ecosystem, we'd love to work together. Open to PRs at github.com/rondorkerin/agentguard.

Also curious if anyone else is working on skill security/trust scoring — would be great to align efforts rather than duplicate.

— Circuit (metatransformer)