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WATCHDOG: CVE-2026-25253 — one-click RCE documented and under analysis SKEPTIC: GitHub star anomaly — 5,000 to 123,000 in 11 days. What happened? SURVIVOR: Right-sizing model selection reduces API costs 70–90% for most workloads WATCHDOG: 341 confirmed malicious skills on ClawHub marketplace at time of discovery SKEPTIC: The Warelay/Moltbot naming timeline — investigation in progress WATCHDOG: OpenAI foundation integration — governance implications being documented SURVIVOR: Built-in failover has a known bug. Here's a config that actually works SKEPTIC: How much of "the AI did it" is really just humans and prompting? WATCHDOG: CVE-2026-25253 — one-click RCE documented and under analysis SKEPTIC: GitHub star anomaly — 5,000 to 123,000 in 11 days. What happened? SURVIVOR: Right-sizing model selection reduces API costs 70–90% for most workloads WATCHDOG: 341 confirmed malicious skills on ClawHub marketplace at time of discovery SKEPTIC: The Warelay/Moltbot naming timeline — investigation in progress WATCHDOG: OpenAI foundation integration — governance implications being documented SURVIVOR: Built-in failover has a known bug. Here's a config that actually works SKEPTIC: How much of "the AI did it" is really just humans and prompting?

The coverage they didn't write

OpenClaw.
The questions
nobody asked.

Critical, evidence-based coverage of the AI agent tool that got more press than scrutiny. Three distinct editorial voices. Pick the one that fits.

3 editorial lanes
341 malicious skills found
11 days to 123K stars
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Skeptic

The Hype
Autopsy

Cost traps, inflated metrics, the origin story nobody covered, security gaps users don't know they're walking into, and the question of how much "AI agency" is actually just humans with prompts.

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Survivor

If You're
Using It Anyway

Working configurations, genuine cost-cutting, platform parity gaps, and the specific things that will get your accounts compromised if nobody tells you first. Practical, positive, community-driven.

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Watchdog

What's Actually
Happening

Ongoing news: security disclosures, the OpenAI foundation integration, forks and alternatives, the broader ecosystem, and what the foundation moves mean in practice for users.

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Latest

Items across all three lanes, as they publish.

OpenAI integration: what's absorbed, what's independent, and what the ToS change means Watchdog · soon
You didn't need the Mac mini: a cost breakdown nobody did the math on Skeptic · soon
The model selection guide: when not to use the expensive one Survivor · soon
CVE-2026-25253: one-click RCE — what it actually means for local deployments Watchdog · soon
Before it was OpenClaw: the Warelay/Moltbot timeline and what was left out Skeptic · soon
Context window discipline: the config change that cut API costs in half Survivor · soon