Answer Overflow

Security checks across malware telemetry and agentic risk

Overview

This instruction-only skill appears benign and only guides searches of public Answer Overflow Discord archives without requesting credentials, installation, local access, or persistence.

This skill is safe to install based on the provided artifacts. Treat it like a web-search helper: use it for public coding questions and avoid pasting secrets, private source code, customer data, or confidential issue details into searches.

VirusTotal

63/63 vendors flagged this skill as clean.

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Risk analysis

Artifact-based informational review of SKILL.md, metadata, install specs, static scan signals, and capability signals. ClawScan does not execute the skill or run runtime probes.

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ASI07: Insecure Inter-Agent Communication
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What this means

Search queries and requested Answer Overflow URLs may be visible to the web search provider, Answer Overflow, or any configured MCP integration.

Why it was flagged

The skill references an external MCP endpoint and web-based retrieval flow. This is aligned with the purpose, but users should understand that search terms and fetched thread IDs may be sent to external services.

Skill content
Answer Overflow has an MCP server at `https://www.answeroverflow.com/mcp` with these tools
Recommendation

Use it for public or non-sensitive troubleshooting queries, and avoid sending private code, secrets, or confidential project details in search terms.