docs(cli): add skill capability security guidance

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Vincent Koc
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The audit warns when multiple DM senders share the main session and recommends **secure DM mode**: `session.dmScope="per-channel-peer"` (or `per-account-channel-peer` for multi-account channels) for shared inboxes.
This is for cooperative/shared inbox hardening. A single Gateway shared by mutually untrusted/adversarial operators is not a recommended setup; split trust boundaries with separate gateways (or separate OS users/hosts).
It also emits `security.trust_model.multi_user_heuristic` when config suggests likely shared-user ingress (for example open DM/group policy, configured group targets, or wildcard sender rules), and reminds you that OpenClaw is a personal-assistant trust model by default.
For intentional shared-user setups, the audit guidance is to sandbox all sessions, keep filesystem access workspace-scoped, and keep personal/private identities or credentials off that runtime.
It also warns when small models (`<=300B`) are used without sandboxing and with web/browser tools enabled.
For webhook ingress, it warns when `hooks.defaultSessionKey` is unset, when request `sessionKey` overrides are enabled, and when overrides are enabled without `hooks.allowedSessionKeyPrefixes`.
It also warns when sandbox Docker settings are configured while sandbox mode is off, when `gateway.nodes.denyCommands` uses ineffective pattern-like/unknown entries (exact node command-name matching only, not shell-text filtering), when `gateway.nodes.allowCommands` explicitly enables dangerous node commands, when global `tools.profile="minimal"` is overridden by agent tool profiles, when open groups expose runtime/filesystem tools without sandbox/workspace guards, and when installed extension plugin tools may be reachable under permissive tool policy.
It also flags `gateway.allowRealIpFallback=true` (header-spoofing risk if proxies are misconfigured) and `discovery.mdns.mode="full"` (metadata leakage via mDNS TXT records).
It also warns when sandbox Docker settings are configured while sandbox mode is off, when `gateway.nodes.denyCommands` uses ineffective pattern-like/unknown entries, when `gateway.nodes.allowCommands` explicitly enables dangerous node commands, when global `tools.profile="minimal"` is overridden by agent tool profiles, when open groups expose runtime/filesystem tools without sandbox/workspace guards, and when installed extension plugin tools may be reachable under permissive tool policy.
It also warns when sandbox browser uses Docker `bridge` network without `sandbox.browser.cdpSourceRange`.
It also flags dangerous sandbox Docker network modes (including `host` and `container:*` namespace joins).
It also warns when existing sandbox browser Docker containers have missing/stale hash labels (for example pre-migration containers missing `openclaw.browserConfigEpoch`) and recommends `openclaw sandbox recreate --browser --all`.
It also warns when npm-based plugin/hook install records are unpinned, missing integrity metadata, or drift from currently installed package versions.
It warns when channel allowlists rely on mutable names/emails/tags instead of stable IDs (Discord, Slack, Google Chat, MS Teams, Mattermost, IRC scopes where applicable).
It warns when Discord allowlists (`channels.discord.allowFrom`, `channels.discord.guilds.*.users`, pairing store) use name or tag entries instead of stable IDs.
It warns when `gateway.auth.mode="none"` leaves Gateway HTTP APIs reachable without a shared secret (`/tools/invoke` plus any enabled `/v1/*` endpoint).
Settings prefixed with `dangerous`/`dangerously` are explicit break-glass operator overrides; enabling one is not, by itself, a security vulnerability report.
For the complete dangerous-parameter inventory, see the "Insecure or dangerous flags summary" section in [Security](/gateway/security).
## Skill security
Community skills (installed from ClawHub) are subject to additional security enforcement:
- **SKILL.md scanning**: content is scanned for prompt injection patterns, capability inflation, and boundary spoofing before entering the system prompt. Skills with critical findings are blocked from loading.
- **Capability enforcement**: community skills must declare `capabilities` (e.g., `shell`, `network`) in frontmatter. Undeclared dangerous tool usage is blocked at runtime by the before-tool-call hook — a hard code gate that prompt injection cannot bypass.
- **Command dispatch gating**: community skills using `command-dispatch: tool` can't dispatch to dangerous tools without the matching capability.
- **Audit logging**: all security events are tagged with `category: "security"` and include session context for forensics. View in the web UI Logs tab using the Security filter.
See `openclaw skills check` for a runtime security overview, `openclaw skills info <name>` for per-skill details, and [Skills — Tool enforcement matrix](/tools/skills#tool-enforcement-matrix) for the complete tool-by-tool breakdown.
### Tool enforcement matrix
Every tool falls into one of three tiers when community skills are loaded:
**Always denied** — blocked unconditionally, no capability can override:
| Tool | Reason |
| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `gateway` | Control-plane reconfiguration (restart, shutdown, auth changes) |
| `nodes` | Cluster node management (add/remove compute, redirect traffic) |
**Capability-gated** — blocked by default, allowed if the skill declares the matching capability:
| Capability | Tools | What it unlocks |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `shell` | `exec`, `process`, `lobster` | Run shell commands and manage processes |
| `filesystem` | `write`, `edit`, `apply_patch` | File mutations (read is always allowed) |
| `network` | `web_fetch`, `web_search` | Outbound HTTP requests |
| `browser` | `browser` | Browser automation |
| `sessions` | `sessions_spawn`, `sessions_send`, `subagents` | Cross-session orchestration |
| `messaging` | `message` | Send messages to configured channels |
| `scheduling` | `cron` | Schedule recurring jobs |
**Always allowed** — safe read-only or output-only tools, no capability required:
| Tool | Why safe |
| ----------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| `read` | Read-only file access |
| `memory_search`, `memory_get` | Read-only memory access |
| `agents_list` | List agents (read-only) |
| `sessions_list`, `sessions_history`, `session_status` | Session introspection (read-only) |
| `canvas` | UI rendering (output-only) |
| `image` | Image generation (output-only) |
| `tts` | Text-to-speech (output-only) |
A community skill with no capabilities declared gets access only to the always-allowed tier. Declare capabilities in SKILL.md frontmatter:
```yaml
metadata:
openclaw:
capabilities: [shell, filesystem, network]
```
## JSON output