I don't mean being directly attacked, I'm referring to them attacking people who use any form of weapons near them, much like how the compound weapons shoot at you if you hold a weapon & will certainly kill you if you fire one. Just Steenamaroo has removed his plugins, which included much loved BotSpawn & GuardBot. So looking for replacements!

If set to hostile they will start following and possibly attacking you when in range regardless whether or not they were attacked.  But, I am working on the AI but it will be slow progress as I have time.