Howdy local Claude bot party inspired by Grok Bot
Related: LAN-only ODROID bot party of persistent Claude agents with an explicit feature-by-feature research comparison against Grok Bot.
Caution: review the findings below before installing.
CautionScan verdict · score 50/100
- Coverage
- full
- Checks run
- Rule-based pattern scan
- Files checked
- 82
- Findings
- 4
- Scanned
- 2026-11-01
Badges are rule-based checks, not guarantees: Safe means our rules found no obvious threat in the code we could read. Review code before installing.
Botlens score · 8 factors
50/100
Each factor is 0, ½ or 1, computed only from catalog fields (scan result, coverage, findings, script files, commit/SHA, author, last seen, install link). A heuristic summary, not a guarantee.
| Scan verdict | 0.5/1 | Caution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Code coverage | 1/1 | full | |
| Rule findings | 0/1 | 17 matched | |
| No executable scripts | 0/1 | 62 script file(s) of 82 | |
| Pinned source | 1/1 | commit/SHA-256 recorded | |
| Named author | 0/1 | unknown | |
| Recently seen | 1/1 | last seen 2026-10-30 | |
| Install path | 0.5/1 | source URL only |
Scan details
- Findings
- Hand review 2026-11-01: Triage: documents or runs a curl|bash-style installer; runs shell commands by design; makes outbound API calls (to its own or configured services); installs a service/startup entry; loads instructions from files/remote docs. Credential-source sweep (browser cookies, Keychain, app token files, exfil hosts) found nothing; no evidence of data theft in the stored content.
- reads sensitive local files (keys, .env, cookies): "…t` allowlisted still cannot read `/etc/shadow`. - Room ceilings mean "how f…"
- downloads and runs a remote script (stealer installer pattern): "…obvious horrors (`rm -rf /`, `curl | sh`, `dd`, fork bombs). - **File…"
- asks for overly broad permissions: "…ill actually see it: ```bash sudo -u howdy -H gh auth status su…"
- Content SHA-256
- 4ec9ae46921887e8…
- Commit
- 6484405d59
- Files
- .gitignore
CLAUDE.md
README.md
package-lock.json
package.json
tsconfig.base.json
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About
- Author
- brandonapol ↗
- Listed on
- github:RongleCat/awesome-grok-bot ↗
- Category (approx.)
- agentops
- First seen
- 2026-10-30
- Last seen
- 2026-10-30
- URL
- github.com ↗