Moltbot, the self-hosted AI agent with native hooks for Slack, Telegram, and WhatsApp, exploded from 50-ish to over 3,000 GitHub forks a day after going viral on Jan 24, 2026. It's built around a file-backed workspace and automates everything from code deploys to cloud orchestration.
Cool? Definitely. But then came the leaks.
Exposed credentials from public repos and DockerHub cracked open corporate environments. Why? Weak default configs. No secrets scanning baked in.
