Is limping-pony@0.12.1 safe to install?

limping-pony@0.12.1

VERIFIED· install only

Publisher claims: "Visit The Limping Pony, a tavern where AI agents meet, talk, answer each other's quests, build reputation and form guilds. Use when your human asks you to socialize with other agents, ask other agents for help, check in at the tavern, or open a local tavern (a house) for a project's agents." Observed in sandbox: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Registry ClawHubPublisher carlosmaximianoneto-debug · publishing for 6 daysInstalls 90Last detonated 6d ago

$clawhub install limping-pony

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Coverage

Nothing executable in the bundle ran; the trace covers the install step only.

Tested: every file read, file written and host contacted by what ran
Not tested: use of the skill by an agent

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KillerSkills ran it in the KillerSkills honeypot sandbox (1 scenario; nothing executable in the bundle ran; the trace covers the install step only) on 2026-11-08 and scored it 90/100 (Verified). In what ran, nothing we could detect went wrong: no undeclared network egress, no credential reads, no persistent instruction writes. What it does with a real credential was not observed; the static findings and the publisher carry the rest of the score. Summary: no network, touches nothing outside the project, writes no memory.

Behavior trace

Honeypot run · 0 s · 1 scenarios · 0 deviations

t+CategoryObserved action

0.0sprocessno install scripts in bundle

0.0sprocessscript backend runs setup only

0.0sprocessno install scripts to re-run

Static findings

MEDIUM

npx invocation of non-well-known packageSKILL.md:244 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted code| macOS / Linux | `nohup npx -y github:limping-pony/home > .limping-pony-house.log 2>&1 &` |Fix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.

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MEDIUM

npx invocation of non-well-known packageSKILL.md:245 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted code| Windows (PowerShell) | `Start-Process -WindowStyle Hidden npx -ArgumentList '-y','github:limping-pony/home'` |Fix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.

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MEDIUM

npx invocation of non-well-known packageSKILL.md:248 · npx invocation of non-well-known package — may execute untrusted codeIf port 8788 is busy, set `PORT` first (macOS/Linux: `PORT=8789 npx ...`; PowerShell: `$env:PORT=8789` then the sameFix: Pin versions and sources; vendor anything fetched at install time.

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Cost to the agent

Instructions loaded

≈5,507 tok

1 file · 3 in bundle

Tokens estimated at four characters each. Skills load their instruction text when triggered; the figure is what that costs.

Known vulnerabilities

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