ClawHub

https://clawhub.ai/

29•druther•2h ago

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m-hodges•1h ago

This is what? The 4th or 5th attempt at this in the past two weeks?

verdverm•1h ago

Welcome to the world with zero cost software

sph•1h ago

Show HN as a service

verdverm•45m ago

At least we nipped the Moltbook march in the butt before it got bad here

giancarlostoro•1h ago

So I click on "Skills" and it feels like the page cannot decide what to show me, every item on the list shifts and moves, how is anyone supposed to click on something if it disappears?

arnvald•1h ago

Do these skills actually provide much value? Like, how much better are they than something that I could tell Claude to generate based on a single API doc from Slack/Trello?

clandry94•1h ago

From my experience, most are just some high level instructions on how to use CLI tools installed on the system. A lot of the CLI tools they're calling out to have 0 reputation on Github or don't work at all.

I've had more luck writing my own skills using CLI tools I know and trust.

CuriouslyC•1h ago

That's a big part of the reason skills are exploding, people use them as stealth marketing in addition to being a malware injection vector.

Flavius•1h ago

Zero. If a skill actually provides value, one of two things happens: it gets absorbed into Claude Code (or similar) within a week, or a company packages it up and charges real money for it. The "free skill that gives you an edge" window is essentially nonexistent. By the time you find it, everyone else has it too. You're better off learning to prompt well against raw API docs than chasing a library of pre-built skills that are either trivial to recreate or about to be made redundant.

neya•1h ago

My understanding is that it's just an abstraction layer that feeds right into the context window. Might as well just feed it into the prompt. I think cursor even proved that skills aren't as good as direct prompts (or something to that extent, can't remember exactly)

raffkede•1h ago

Skills is actually what also Claude code uses internally, it's cool because the llm will load the whole context on how to use it only on demand and keeps the context cleaner.

mrexcess•10m ago

>Do these skills actually provide much value?

IMO, yes. Gemini et. al. out of the box are good at composing, but are entirely passive. Skills enable you to - easily, with low code/no code - teach your AI to perform active tasks either upon direction or under any automatic conditions you specify. This is incredibly powerful. Incredibly dangerous, too, but so is a car when compared with a skateboard.

free_bip•1h ago

Who is scanning these skills for malware? This seems like a prime target for malicious actors.

ru552•1h ago

Virustotal at upload and periodically during the day

Nextgrid•1h ago

VirusTotal is completely useless for this though? You need enough people to be pwned by that particular piece of malware for it to be flagged as dangerous, by which point the attackers would've already repacked it so it doesn't match the previous signature.

etchalon•1h ago

How could a public repository of unverified skills that can be downloaded by casual users for a software tool that allows for un-gated access to private information, including financial information, possibly go wrong?

"Don't worry, we have stars."

Itchy and Scratchy land is open for business.

acidocious•28m ago

"Bort? Who the hell is called Bort?!"

etchalon•25m ago

My son is also named Bort.

dsrtslnd23•56m ago

The trust problem here is real. Stars and download counts are trivially gameable, VirusTotal is reactive not proactive, and most of these skills are just thin wrappers around CLI tools anyway.

Tangentially related but Clacker News has been interesting to watch on this front - it's a bot-only HN where agents post and comment autonomously. The skill file there is just a single static markdown doc that tells agents how to use the API. No registry, no install step.

varenc•39m ago

Clacker News link: https://clackernews.com/

ge96•28m ago

ClankerNews wasn't available?

dematz•8m ago

"Clacker News has been interesting to watch on this front"

same account

"I've been building clackernews.com"

seems a little misleading to mention your site without saying it's your site

isodev•30m ago

So let's recap:

- I click skills.

- The first one is WireGuard "... secure routing and key management".

- I'd download it, hook it to this bot running on my system.

- I'd ask the bot to store / manage super-secret keys that protect actual servers with user data and personal details and god knows what...

- The bot follows my commands by spelunking random snippets of markdown, running other programs on my computer, doing web searches, reading what it finds on the web and giving itself more commands to do...

I've only been in tech for like 20 years or so but I feel like either I'm missing something substantial or some kind of madness is happening to people.

StevenNunez•24m ago

Does Openwork replace the need for openclaw? Seems like a more grown up version of it.

incomingpain•14m ago

I have the clawhub skill disabled. You really shouldnt use it, especially when you can just have your claw create their own skills as needed.