Less than 24 hours after open source release, it was maliciously registered; after complaints were ineffective, the 14k-star Skill creator announced a split from ClawHub.

ME News report, April 13 (UTC+8). According to 1M AI News monitoring, Bao Yu (@dotey), the author of Claude Code’s popular open-source Skills collection baoyu-skills (about 14,000 stars on GitHub), publicly broke ties on X with AI Agent skill registration platform ClawHub. He said the issue is this: after he published a new Skill, baoyu-diagram, on GitHub, less than 24 hours later someone forked the code and registered the same name on ClawHub first, preventing the original author from publishing under his own account. This has happened repeatedly—several of his Skills have been claimed/registered by different users ahead of him.

Bao Yu reported the problem three times to Peter Steinberger, the founder of the open-source AI Agent tool OpenClaw, starting on March 10. Steinberger initially said that the code already has ownership-transfer capabilities, but more UI work is needed, and invited the community to submit PRs. Bao Yu then proposed two UI solutions. But today, Steinberger’s response changed tone: “I know this is very bad, but the rule is first come, first served. If we arbitrarily take back names that other people have registered, this won’t end. Unless you have a trademark—that’s a different story.”

Bao Yu replied, “Completely disagree”: “A ‘first come, first served’ system with no protection only means whoever grabs it first wins, not whoever is actually building something wins.” He said his work has been repeatedly registered by others ahead of him, the platform is aware but does nothing, and creators have no reason to keep contributing. He announced that he will no longer submit content to ClawHub. He proposed alternative solutions such as ownership of naming namespaces and cooling-off windows, but received no response.

On the same day, Teknium, co-founder of Nous Research, the parent company of the open-source AI Agent framework Hermes Agent, proactively invited Bao Yu: if the Skill quality is good, it can be included as a built-in optional Skill for Hermes Agent, with permanent attribution and exclusive ownership. After Bao Yu shared the repository, Teknium tested it and said the results were excellent, requesting a private message for further communication. (Source: BlockBeats)