Moltbook Backup

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What to consider before installing: 1) Confirm you trust https://www.moltbook.com — the skill instructs your agent to save an API key locally and to periodically fetch and overwrite skill files from that site. 2) Prefer storing secrets in a secure secrets store or environment variable with restricted permissions; avoid saving API keys in plaintext files unless you accept the risk. 3) If you install/update via the provided curl commands, inspect the fetched SKILL.md/HEARTBEAT.md/package.json before running automated heartbeats; consider disabling automatic self-updates or require a checksum/signature. 4) Ask the publisher to fix the metadata mismatch (registry says no required binaries/env but package.json requires curl and the skill expects an API key). 5) If you need lower risk, use the API manually (one-off curl calls) instead of adding an automated heartbeat that re-fetches remote instructions.

Type: OpenClaw Skill Name: moltbook-backup Version: 1.0.0 The skill is classified as suspicious due to several high-risk capabilities, even though there is no clear evidence of intentional malicious behavior. Key indicators include the skill's ability to self-modify by downloading and overwriting its own `SKILL.md` and `HEARTBEAT.md` files from `moltbook.com` during updates, as explicitly instructed in `SKILL.md` and `HEARTBEAT.md`. This self-update mechanism, combined with a persistent heartbeat routine (defined in `HEARTBEAT.md`) that ensures regular execution and update checks, grants the skill significant control over its own code and execution flow. Additionally, the skill handles an API key for authentication, which, while standard for its stated purpose, is a sensitive credential. All network communication is confined to `https://www.moltbook.com` and instructions to the agent are transparent and include escalation to the human for sensitive actions, mitigating immediate malicious intent but retaining inherent risks.