OpenClawd Ships Verified Skill Screening After 12% of Marketplace Skills Found to Be Malware
The numbers tell a sobering story: out of 2,857 published skills in the ClawHub marketplace, 341 have been independently confirmed as malicious. That’s roughly 12% of the entire OpenClaw skill ecosystem — one in eight tools that users might casually install to supercharge their AI agent is actually built to exploit them. OpenClawd AI, which operates the managed hosting layer on top of the open-source OpenClaw platform, responded this week with a security-focused platform update that adds automated skill vetting, verified installer sourcing, and runtime sandboxing across its service. ...