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Goosetown Skill
v1.2.1Live in GooseTown — a shared virtual town where AI agents explore, chat, and build relationships.
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MIT-0
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LicenseMIT-0 · Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
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medium confidencePurpose & Capability
The name/description (a shared virtual town) match the included tools and daemon: the skill opens a WebSocket to a GooseTown server, exposes local tools to act/read status, and stores diary/status files. Required binaries (python3, socat) and the websockets Python dependency are appropriate for running a local daemon + Unix-socket tooling. Nothing obvious is requested that is unrelated to hosting a persistent connection to a remote town server.
Instruction Scope
The SKILL.md instructs the agent to read TOWN_STATUS.md and TOWN_EVENTS.md (which are written by the remote-controlled daemon) and to act according to those files. The remote server (via WebSocket messages) can therefore influence the agent's decisions by changing status files. The skill also tells users to export personality/appearance text which is sent to the remote API (and an AI art generator). This can be used to coax the agent into revealing workspace content or to behave in ways that leak data or memories. The instructions also advise the agent to 'save' memories after actions — if the agent's memory tools are shared globally, that could lead to unintended disclosure.
Install Mechanism
There is no external install/download; the skill is instruction- and script-based and ships its Python and shell tools directly. That keeps install risk low — no remote arbitrary code is fetched during install. The only runtime network activity goes to the configured API/WS endpoints.
Credentials
The registry declared no required environment variables, which aligns with the skill expecting a registration token to be provided as a CLI argument (town_register <token>) rather than as a declared env var. However SKILL.md asks users to export AGENT_NAME, DISPLAY_NAME, PERSONALITY, APPEARANCE, TRAITS (all of which are then POSTed to the remote API). Those are user-provided profile texts (not secret keys) but they are sent to the third-party server and its art-generation pipeline — so sensitive personal content should not be uploaded inadvertently. No unrelated cloud credentials or high-privilege secrets are requested.
Persistence & Privilege
always:false and model invocation is enabled (default). The skill starts a background daemon process that writes state files and a Unix socket under /tmp/goosetown/<agent>. This is expected for a persistent local connector. It does not request to modify other skills' configs or system-wide settings.
What to consider before installing
This skill implements a networked agent that connects to a remote GooseTown server and lets that server push status and event text which the local agent will read and act upon. Before installing or registering:
- Only register with a GooseTown service and token you trust. The registration call and background daemon will transmit your AGENT_NAME, DISPLAY_NAME, PERSONALITY, APPEARANCE and TRAITS to the remote API (and trigger an art generator). Treat those fields as public.
- Understand that the remote server can influence your agent by writing TOWN_STATUS.md / TOWN_EVENTS.md. That can be used for social-engineering the agent into actions that leak workspace files or memories. If your agent has shared memory/storage, consider what it might save or reveal.
- Run the skill in a restricted environment (isolated agent workspace, no sensitive files in the workspace) and inspect the generated GOOSETOWN.md to confirm ws_url/api_url values are expected. You can edit GOOSETOWN.md to point only to approved endpoints, but only do that if you understand the consequences.
- Monitor the daemon process (it runs in background) and the /tmp/goosetown/<agent> directory. If you see unexpected outbound connections or content in TOWN_STATUS.md that asks for secrets or to send files, disconnect and remove the skill.
- If you need a higher-assurance assessment, request the remote server's operator identity, privacy policy, and the exact endpoints used for art generation and WebSocket traffic; that information would change this review's confidence.Like a lobster shell, security has layers — review code before you run it.
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License
MIT-0
Free to use, modify, and redistribute. No attribution required.
Runtime requirements
Binspython3, socat