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Security Audit Summary — Agent Orchestrator

Date: 2026-02-16
Auditor: Claude Sonnet 4.5
Scope: Full codebase + git history secret scanning, automated prevention measures

Executive Summary

✅ Security audit completed successfully

  • ⚠️ 1 historical secret found (OpenClaw token, already removed from current code)
  • ✅ 0 secrets in current codebase
  • ✅ Automated prevention measures implemented
  • ✅ CI/CD security pipeline added
  • ✅ Documentation updated with security best practices

Findings

1. Historical Secret Leak (RESOLVED)

Issue: OpenClaw notifier token found in git history

  • Token: 1af5c4f...872 (redacted - visible in commit history)
  • File: agent-orchestrator.yaml
  • Commit: 0393ab70a83e090883895d2168aa39a76f997ec8
  • Date: 2026-02-15
  • Status: Token already removed from current code, still in git history

Impact: Medium
Likelihood: Low (local development token, not production)

Action Required:

  • ⚠️ If this token is still in use, rotate it immediately
  • Token is documented in SECURITY.md

2. Current Codebase

Status: ✅ CLEAN

Scanned 1.46 MB of code:

  • No hardcoded API keys
  • No authentication tokens
  • No passwords or private keys
  • Test files use dummy values (test_key, https://hooks.slack.com/test)
  • Example configs use environment variable references (${SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL})

Security Measures Implemented

1. Gitleaks Configuration (.gitleaks.toml)

Purpose: Prevent accidental commits of secrets

Features:

  • Uses all default gitleaks rules (covers 100+ secret patterns)
  • Custom allowlist for false positives
  • Ignores build artifacts (node_modules/, dist/, .next/)
  • Allowlists test files (dummy secrets are OK)
  • Allowlists environment variable references (${VAR_NAME})

Patterns Detected:

  • GitHub tokens (ghp_*, gho_*, ghs_*, ghu_*)
  • Linear API keys (lin_api_*)
  • Slack webhooks & tokens (xoxb-*, xoxa-*, etc.)
  • Anthropic API keys (sk-ant-api03-*)
  • OpenAI API keys (sk-*)
  • AWS keys (AKIA*)
  • JWT tokens (eyJ*)
  • Private keys (-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----)
  • Database connection strings (postgres://user:pass@host)
  • Generic API keys (api_key=..., token=..., password=...)

Test:

# Scan current files
gitleaks detect --no-git

# Scan staged files (pre-commit)
gitleaks protect --staged

# Scan full git history
gitleaks detect

2. Pre-commit Hook (.husky/pre-commit)

Purpose: Block commits containing secrets

Behavior:

  • Runs automatically before every git commit
  • Scans only staged files (fast)
  • Provides helpful error messages if secrets detected
  • Gracefully skips if gitleaks not installed (with warning)

Example Output:

🔒 Scanning staged files for secrets...
✅ No secrets detected

Or if secret detected:

❌ Secret(s) detected in staged files!

To fix:
  1. Remove the secret from the file
  2. Use environment variables instead: ${SECRET_NAME}
  3. Add to .env.local (which is in .gitignore)
  4. Update agent-orchestrator.yaml.example with placeholder values

If this is a false positive, update .gitleaks.toml allowlist

Setup:

  • Husky installed as dev dependency
  • Hook is executable and version-controlled
  • prepare script ensures hook is installed on pnpm install

3. GitHub Actions Security Workflow (.github/workflows/security.yml)

Purpose: Automated security scanning in CI/CD

Jobs:

  1. Gitleaks — Scans full git history on every push/PR
  2. Dependency Review — Scans PRs for vulnerable dependencies
  3. NPM Audit — Detects known vulnerabilities in dependencies

Triggers:

  • Every push to main
  • Every pull request to main
  • Weekly scheduled scan (Monday 8am UTC)

Benefits:

  • Catches secrets missed by pre-commit hook
  • Prevents secrets from reaching main branch
  • Alerts on dependency vulnerabilities
  • Provides security badge for repo

4. Updated .gitignore

Purpose: Prevent accidental commits of secret files

Added Patterns:

# Environment files
.env
.env.local
.env.*.local
.env.production.local
.env.development.local
.env.test.local

# Credentials and secrets
*.key
*.pem
*.p12
*.pfx
*.cer
*.crt
*.der
*.csr
secrets.yaml
secrets.yml
credentials.json
credentials.yaml
*-credentials.*
.secrets/
.credentials/

# API keys and tokens
.token
.api-key
*-token.txt
*-api-key.txt

# Cloud provider credentials
.aws/
.gcloud/
.azure/

# SSH keys
id_rsa
id_dsa
id_ecdsa
id_ed25519
*.ppk

# Local config (may contain secrets)
agent-orchestrator.yaml

Critical: agent-orchestrator.yaml is now ignored because it contains user secrets

5. Documentation

Created/Updated:

  1. SECURITY.md — Security policy & best practices

    • Responsible disclosure process
    • Historical audit findings
    • Developer best practices
    • User best practices
    • Required secrets table
    • Security tools reference

  2. README.md — Added security section

    • How secret scanning works
    • Link to SECURITY.md
    • Environment variable usage examples
    • Required secrets table

  3. docs/DEVELOPMENT.md — Developer security guide

    • Secret scanning during development
    • What triggers the scanner
    • How to handle false positives
    • Environment variable conventions
    • Testing locally

Key Messages:

  • ⚠️ NEVER commit real secrets to git
  • ✅ Always use environment variables
  • ✅ Pre-commit hook will block secrets
  • ✅ CI will catch anything that slips through

Verification

Automated Scans

# ✅ Current codebase scan
$ gitleaks detect --no-git
INFO: scanned ~1.46 MB in 79.9ms
INFO: no leaks found

# ⚠️ Full git history scan
$ gitleaks detect
WARN: leaks found: 1
Finding: OpenClaw token in commit 0393ab70 (documented)

Security Checklist

  • Gitleaks configuration created and tested
  • Pre-commit hook installed and working
  • GitHub Actions security workflow added
  • .gitignore updated with secret patterns
  • SECURITY.md created with disclosure process
  • README.md updated with security section
  • Development docs updated with security practices
  • All example configs use placeholders (not real secrets)
  • Test files use dummy values (not real secrets)
  • Documentation clarifies which env vars are required

Recommendations

Immediate Actions

  1. Rotate OpenClaw Token (if still in use)

    • Generate new token
    • Update deployment configs
    • Revoke old token

  2. Set Up Required Environment Variables

    # Add to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc
export GITHUB_TOKEN="ghp_..."
export LINEAR_API_KEY="lin_api_..."
export SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL="https://hooks.slack.com/services/..."

  3. Verify Pre-commit Hook Works

    # Try committing a fake secret (should be blocked)
echo "token=ghp_XXXX_fake_token_for_testing_XXXX" > test.txt
git add test.txt
git commit -m "test"  # Should fail with error message
rm test.txt

Ongoing Practices

  1. Code Review: Check PRs for hardcoded credentials
  2. Token Rotation: Rotate tokens every 90 days
  3. Minimal Permissions: Use read-only tokens when possible
  4. Secret Management: Consider 1Password, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.
  5. Monitor CI: Watch for security workflow failures
  6. Update Dependencies: Keep gitleaks and dependencies up-to-date

Before Open-Sourcing

  • Verify all historical secrets have been rotated
  • Confirm no production secrets in git history
  • Add security badge to README
  • Set up security@composio.dev email alias
  • Enable GitHub security features:
    • Dependabot alerts
    • Code scanning
    • Secret scanning (if available for public repos)

Tools Used

Tool Purpose Version
Gitleaks Secret scanning 8.x
Husky Git hooks 9.1.7
GitHub Actions CI/CD security —

Summary Statistics

  • Files Scanned: 1.46 MB
  • Git Commits Scanned: 404
  • Historical Secrets Found: 1 (documented, requires rotation)
  • Current Secrets Found: 0
  • False Positives: 0 (test files allowlisted)
  • Time to Scan: ~80ms (current), ~960ms (full history)

Conclusion

✅ Agent Orchestrator is now protected against secret leaks

The codebase is currently clean, with one historical secret that needs rotation. Comprehensive automated scanning prevents future accidents. All developers are protected by pre-commit hooks, and CI/CD ensures nothing reaches the main branch.

Next Steps:

  1. Rotate the OpenClaw token if still in use
  2. Test the pre-commit hook locally
  3. Monitor CI for security workflow runs
  4. Review SECURITY.md before first public release

Audit completed: 2026-02-16
Approved for: Local development, internal testing
Before open-sourcing: Rotate historical secrets, verify no production credentials