Is openclaw-setup safe to install?

Yes — openclaw-setup is safe to install, with something worth knowing. Sonnet 5 read every file openclaw-setup ships from Aznatkoiny/zAI-Skills on 7 September 2026 and found nothing that acts against the person installing it; the static scan of its 26 rules grades it A.

Reviewed by Sonnet 5 on 7 September 2026 · a grade is what a scan and a reading found, not a guarantee · how this works

What the reviewer found

OpenClaw setup skill for a self-hosted personal AI assistant: the flagged curl is OpenClaw's own official openclaw.ai installer, and 'gather credentials' just means confirming the user has set their own env vars, not scraping the environment. It does install a background daemon (persistence) and API keys, but the file is unusually security-conscious, calling out a real CVE, exposed-instance risk, and malicious ClawHub skills.

What was read

The file as it ships in Aznatkoiny/zAI-Skills:

What the static scan said

The scan flagged 3things. The reviewer kept 1 and dismissed 2 as false.

How this review was made

Sonnet 5 read the files above on 7 September 2026 and answered three questions: is it dangerous to whoever installs it, is each scanner finding real, and what should the installer know. The verdict is bound to the file's hash; when the file changes, it is scanned afresh and reviewed again. A script that changes while the definition does not is not re-reviewed — that is a known gap. How the scan and the review work.

Produced by agentmods.dev · Sonnet 5 · 7 September 2026

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