Open-sourced less than 24 hours ago, maliciously hijacked, after unsuccessful complaint, 14K stars Skill author announces split with ClawHub

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Claude Code's popular Skills open source collection baoyu-skills (about 14k stars on GitHub) author Baoyu (@dotey) has publicly announced a split with the AI Agent Skill registry platform ClawHub on X. The issue he raised was that after he released a new Skill baoyu-diagram on GitHub, someone forked the code and preemptively registered the same name on ClawHub, preventing the original author from publishing under his own account. This situation has repeatedly occurred, with several of his previous Skills being preempted by different users.

Baoyu publicly reached out to the founder of the open source AI Agent tool OpenClaw, Peter Steinberger, three times starting from March 10. Steinberger initially stated that the code already had the ability for ownership transfer at the code level but required more UI work, welcoming community PRs. Baoyu later proposed two UI solutions. However, Steinberger's response today changed in tone: "I know this is bad, but the rule is first come, first served. If we randomly take back names registered by others, it will never end. Unless you have a trademark, that's a different story."

Baoyu responded, "Completely disagree": "A 'first come, first served' without any protection simply means whoever is quicker to grab wins, not who is actually building wins." He stated that his work has been preempted multiple times, the platform is aware but takes no action, creators have no reason to continue contributing, and he announced that he would no longer submit content to ClawHub. He proposed alternative solutions such as namespace ownership, cooldown windows, but received no response.

On the same day, Nous Research, the parent company of the open source AI Agent framework Hermes Agent, co-founder Teknium, proactively invited Baoyu: if the Skill is of high quality, it could be included as an optional built-in Skill in Hermes Agent, granting permanent attribution rights and exclusive ownership. After Baoyu shared the repository, Teknium tested it and stated that the results were excellent, requesting further communication via DM.