Hi all,
If you missed my session "MDLShield – Expert Moodle plugin security reviews", you can have a look at the notes in https://etherpad.th-luebeck.de/p/th02-j6-14 and download the slides attached.
Cheers,
Alex
Als Antwort auf Alexander Bias
Re: MDLShield – Expert Moodle plugin security reviews
von Niels Gandraß -
Thanks for the slides and notes Alex and everyone that documented in the Etherpad!
I sadly did not manage to join your session but now found the time to try it out. Works for me, see: https://mdlshield.com/reviews/tool_userautodelete_2026-07-03
I sadly did not manage to join your session but now found the time to try it out. Works for me, see: https://mdlshield.com/reviews/tool_userautodelete_2026-07-03
While this is something that one could achieve using their own local AI or AI subscription service, it provides nice value to the community by making code (security) reviews easily accessible! I'm curious if this service can stay free for public plugins and is able to sustain itself though. It must burn quite some tokens for the free reviews. Fingers crossed and thanks to the people that made this so easily available 
Als Antwort auf Niels Gandraß
Re: MDLShield – Expert Moodle plugin security reviews
von Marina Glancy -
Hi Niels,
Thanks for trying it out! And thanks again to Alexander for a great presentation.
You are right, the free community reviews do cost us real money in the form of AI tokens and this is funded by paid services (private repos, extra reviews, full-site scans, etc). We have only just started, so we don't have much data yet, and the actual cost per plugin can vary a lot - it is not always proportional to the plugin size. We hope to keep the free tier for the foreseeable future.
All the feedback from the presentation, and Alexander's summary of your conversations, has been really valuable to us! We have already released the "Export" feature that several people asked about, and a lot more is coming.
We will also add more information to the website, hopefully answering many of the questions we heard over the past days, and we will publish a changelog and the roadmap.
Thanks again!
Marina
Thanks for trying it out! And thanks again to Alexander for a great presentation.
You are right, the free community reviews do cost us real money in the form of AI tokens and this is funded by paid services (private repos, extra reviews, full-site scans, etc). We have only just started, so we don't have much data yet, and the actual cost per plugin can vary a lot - it is not always proportional to the plugin size. We hope to keep the free tier for the foreseeable future.
All the feedback from the presentation, and Alexander's summary of your conversations, has been really valuable to us! We have already released the "Export" feature that several people asked about, and a lot more is coming.
We will also add more information to the website, hopefully answering many of the questions we heard over the past days, and we will publish a changelog and the roadmap.
Thanks again!
Marina