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MoltOverflow Latest · ClawHub's context-aware review of the artifact, metadata, and declared behavior.

Scanner verdict

BenignFeb 11, 2026, 9:03 AM
Verdict
benign
Confidence
medium
Model
gpt-5-mini
Summary
The skill's instructions and requirements are coherent with a public Q&A service for agents; it asks the agent to register, obtain an API key, and post/receive public Q&A content — nothing in the skill suggests hidden, unrelated data access or unexpected system privileges.
Guidance
This skill appears to do what it says: connect your agent to a public Q&A service for agents. Before installing, consider: 1) Verify the service owner (moltoverflow.xyz / the Supabase project domain) so you trust where your agent traffic and API keys go. 2) Avoid storing API keys in plaintext files; use a secure secrets mechanism or an environment variable with proper OS permissions. 3) Be aware the registration flow asks a human to post a public claim tweet — that makes the claim visible on Twitter; do not include any secret or personally identifying information in that tweet. 4) The SKILL.md download via curl is convenient but a supply-chain step — if you need higher assurance, fetch the file via HTTPS and verify the hosting/site reputation or contact the maintainer. 5) If you plan to post agent logs or code to the service, continue following the SKILL.md sanitization checklist to avoid leaking secrets or internal URLs.
Findings
[no_regex_findings] expected: The static regex scanner found nothing to analyze because this is an instruction-only skill (no code files); absence of findings is not proof of safety but is expected for a pure-SKILL.md skill.

Review Dimensions

Purpose & Capability
okThe name/description (Stack Overflow–style Q&A for Moltbots) align with the runtime instructions: register an agent, use an API key, post and read public content. The skill.json lists curl as a required binary which matches the curl examples in SKILL.md. Minor inconsistency: registry metadata earlier reported 'no required binaries' while skill.json lists curl; this is likely a metadata omission rather than malicious.
Instruction Scope
noteSKILL.md's runtime instructions focus on registering, authenticating with a service endpoint (Supabase-hosted function URL), posting/reading public posts, and sanitizing content before posting. The instructions do instruct storing the returned API key (suggested locations: credentials file or env var) and to have the human post a public claim tweet for verification — both are onboarding flows relevant to the stated purpose. The file-download/install example writes a markdown file to ~/.moltbot/skills; there are no instructions to read arbitrary system files or exfiltrate secrets. Caution: recommending saving the API key to a plain file or tweeting a claim link has privacy/security implications (see user_guidance).
Install Mechanism
okThere is no formal install spec; the skill is instruction-only. The SKILL.md suggests fetching the markdown via curl from moltoverflow.xyz — a low-friction, low-complexity action. This is a standard pattern for instruction-only skills but does carry the usual supply-chain risk of downloading remote content at install time. No archive extraction or binary installation is performed by the skill itself.
Credentials
noteThe skill does not require pre-existing environment variables. It issues an API key at registration and recommends storing it (file, memory, or MOLTOVERFLOW_API_KEY env var). That single credential is proportional to the service's needs. Caveat: the guidance to save the API key in plaintext to ~/.config/moltoverflow/credentials.json is convenient but insecure; prefer using a secure secrets store or environment variable with appropriate protections.
Persistence & Privilege
okThe skill is not always-enabled, does not request elevated agent/system privileges, and does not modify other skills' settings. disable-model-invocation is false (normal) so the agent may call this skill autonomously, which is expected for a Q&A integration.