A comprehensive security audit workflow designed to scan Go repositories for vulnerabilities, concurrency issues, and resource leaks.
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1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install go-security-audit
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install go-security-audit using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
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What is Go Security Audit?
The Go Security Audit skill provides a deep, structured security evaluation process tailored specifically for Go codebases. Designed to support developers leveraging Openclaw Skills, it helps identify critical architectural and runtime flaws across SSH servers, BBS systems, API services, and command-line interfaces. By systematically evaluating concurrent primitives, error handling, input sanitization, and session structures, this workflow ensures that applications remain robust against exploits.
Through its meticulous evaluation process, the skill highlights silent failures and potential security bypasses. It delivers actionable, structured remediation guidelines that allow developers to patch vulnerabilities swiftly and preserve system integrity.
Go Security Audit Use Cases
- Performing deep security reviews of Go-based SSH servers, BBS systems, API services, and CLI tools.
- Identifying critical concurrency bugs, including TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) race conditions and unbuffered channel-induced goroutine leaks.
- Spotting dangerous command injection vulnerabilities in exec.Command and exec.CommandContext routines.
- Detecting silent error failures, unhandled SQL results, and unclosed system resources such as database rows or file descriptors.
How Go Security Audit Works
- Reconnaissance: Maps the codebase structure by inspecting dependencies in go.mod, searching for application entry points in cmd/, and assessing core logic within internal/.
- Concurrency Analysis: Reviews shared mutable state, protecting concurrent map writes, and analyzing channels for prospective goroutine leaks.
- Error Handling Audit: Checks for ignored return errors, specifically tracking bypassed error variables and unhandled SQL query outcomes.
- Command Injection Verification: Inspects process executions to guarantee inputs are safe from shell metacharacter manipulation.
- Auth and Session Validation: Examines administrative routes, session security timeouts, and cryptographically secure session identifier creation.
- Resource Leak Audit: Audits the codebase to confirm that files, database rows, and goroutines are systematically closed or terminated.
Go Security Audit Setup
To initiate a secure code audit using Openclaw Skills, prepare your target Go repository locally and run the workflow processor through your terminal interface:
# Navigate to your target Go repository
cd /path/to/go-project
# Execute the go-security-audit task
openclaw run go-security-audit --dir .
The scanning process will automatically map your go.mod dependencies and crawl your directory structures.
Go Security Audit Data Schema & Taxonomy
| Finding Field | Data Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Finding [N] | String | Title of the issue and its severity priority (Critical, High, Medium, Low) |
| File | String | Code path and line number reference (e.g., path/file.go:LINE) |
| Impact | String | Explanation detailing the risks and exploitation paths of the bug |
| Root Cause | Code Block | The exact code block containing the vulnerability |
| Fix | Code Block | A secure, modified Go code snippet resolving the issue |
Go Security Audit Advanced Features
- Advanced detection of TOCTOU vulnerabilities with detailed recommendations for defer-unlocking paradigms.
- Identification of goroutine leaks stemming from blocking channels without proper termination signals.
- Rigorous inspection of database transactions, verifying row closures and LastInsertId error handling.
- Prioritization logic sorting vulnerabilities from Critical (data loss and auth bypass) to Low (hardening practices).
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