I'm afraid not. The 0.7 release still appears to have this bug. https://github.com/damiendallimore/SplunkModularInputsPythonFramework/blob/master/implementations/twilio_alert/bin/twilio.py#L40 What I've done is download and install the app in a local Splunk environment; making the modifications to not shadow the outer scope message variable. Then creating a Splunk app package by doing Splunk package app . Currently we are waiting for Splunk support to verify the safety of the modified app for installation. ... View more