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Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant
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- orionblastar 8mo agoI ran the install and got these errors: npm warn deprecated npmlog@6.0.2: This package is no longer supported. npm warn deprecated are-we-there-yet@3.0.1: This package is no longer supported. npm warn deprecated gauge@4.0.4: This package is no longer supported. npm warn deprecated tar@6.2.1: Old versions of tar are not supported, and contain widely publicized security vulnerabilities, which have been fixed in the current version. Please update. Support for old versions may be purchased (at exhorbitant rates) by contacting i@izs.me npm warn deprecated node-domexception@1.0.0: Use your platform's native DOMException instead
- 4shadowed 8mo agoThat's not an error, its an ignorable warning from upstream dependencies
- atonse 8mo agoClawdbot is interesting but I finally feel like those people who look at people like me raving about Claude code when it barely works for them. I have no doubt clawdBot, when it works, must feel great. But I’ve had the tough time setting it up and found it to be very buggy. My first couple of conversations? It forgot the context literally seconds later when I responded. Nevertheless, I’m sure it’s improving by the day so I’m going to set it up on my existing Mac mini because I think it has the capacity to be really fascinating. I built something similar (well… with a lot of integrations) but for running my company and continue to iterate on it.
- HorizonXP 8mo agoI’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim. Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to. However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focused vector for the same AI model, one focused on being your personal assistant. It’s like Claude Code vs. Claude Cowork. They’re the same thing. But given the low cost of creating custom tools, why not give people something that Clawd.bot that gives them focused guardrails? Anyway, I could end up abandoning all of this too. And it’s all a kludge around things that should really be an API. But I do like that I can run it on my Mac Mini and have it control my desktop. It’ll be a cold day if I let it message for me; I’d rather it write deterministic code that does that, rather than do it directly.
- sejje 8mo agoWhat's up with aider? Did it get abandoned? What models do you have driving now? I've stepped away for a while and I haven't tried claude code yet
- scottyeager 8mo agoAider isn't abandoned, but it feels like it's basically in maintenance mode at this point. Updates over the last year were limited to small improvements and fixes. There are some forks aimed at making it more "agentic" (more like Claude Code, etc). I haven't tried them personally.
- giancarlostoro 8mo ago> too old to give up Vim. Even for Neovim? ;)
- HorizonXP 8mo agoEven for Neovim!
- giancarlostoro 8mo agoNeovim is the only reason I've given vim a serious look. I love Emacs more, but Neovim lets me use any UI on top of it, which means I can have better visual indicators for things I don't know how to do in VIM. Emacs has a GUI but a lot of it is "beyond flat" and it just doesn't translate well to my brain. The best plugin for Emacs for me is still Spacemacs, and no I don't use it with the vim mode stuff, I prefer it with regular emacs commands (for anyone curious). But Neovim just works for me every time, even vanilla its fine.
- skeledrew 8mo agoI'm a strict Emacs-only user (although sometimes I'll jump into nano for quick edits of isolated files). When I just started out, I went with Spacemacs, which served me pretty well. But there were a few pain points that I can no longer remember, and eventually I gave Doom a try. Haven't looked back.
- cherioo 8mo agoWhat model did you use? At work tasks that Sonnet 4 and 4.5 failed miserably, Opus 4.5 can basically one shot them. I imagine it will be the same here.
- atonse 8mo agoI see opus for everything in general cuz I’m a Max user but I’ll double check.
- bogtap82 8mo agoI cloned the clawdbot repo back when it was named warelay or clawdis, can't remember, but it was much less dense then. Mainly cloned it for the in-the-box Whatsapp implementation. Since then I've built it into a pretty awesome agent for my home and family, who all have their own privileged access which allows it access to different skills and a mixture of shared and personal information. I have no interest in reconciling the Frankenstein I've built with newer mainline features, but the custom nature of my build is one of the things I find so fun and helpful about it. It's become so much more "mine" by just asking it to build out xyz feature for itself, and now it can do a bunch of weird things that revolve around its persistent access to the information I provide it and my ability to interface with it through a regular messaging app.
- kkukshtel 8mo agoI agree with this - the sudden prevalence of Clawdbot everywhere feels like tactical astroturfing.
- jackdawipper 8mo agodefinitely. I got ad blitzed the last two days by "wow" YT videos which I admit is why I even ended up clicking through todays "bot news" to this site. It's been uber hyped with marketing strategy for sure, its only coz it was OSS I paid attention but was surprised by the marketing for OSS since that doesnt usually happen.
- kkukshtel 8mo agoAnd now the data exfiltration stuff happening makes me put my tinfoil hat on and think this was actually a coordinated data exfiltration attack that leveraged AI hype lol.
- 1-6 8mo agoI see this posted everywhere this week. Is it really that good? I understand this runs on any hardware (not limited to Mac Minis) as long as you have an API key to an LLM (Preferably to Claude). People online make bold promises that it will change your life... It sounds interesting to me, I might install it on a cheap Mini PC with Ubuntu. This can't come at any worst time as storage and RAM has gotten astronomical. I feel bad for people who are just starting to build their first rig and an alt rig for this.
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- jhickok 8mo agoI thought the same thing. I had a spare iMac sitting around so I thought I would kick the tires on it. I realize I could have used something else, but I wanted to give it iMessage access. I have to say, it's just better enough than a few things I have tried to really give me a glimpse of what is possible and make me excited. I am nervous about handing over a computer, my accounts, data, etc to a tireless bot that can destroy my life for a year on accident, but regardless I think this is startling good and fairly polished.
- mentos 8mo agoWhat’s the main use case for you or feature with the greatest promise?
- jhickok 8mo agoIt's only been a few days and I am still exploring, but my household has two adults and three kids all with very busy, individual schedules, and one of the nicest features was setting up a morning text message to everyone with reminders for the day. It checks school schedules, test reminders, sports events, doctor's appts (I am in PT), and adds personal context assuming it has access to it (it usually does). I understand much of this probably could have been done for a while, but this seems like the nicest packaged up assistant that I have tried.
- bravura 8mo agoHow do people think about the sort of access and permissions it needs? "Don't give it access to anything you wouldn't give a new contractor on day one." https://x.com/rahulsood/status/2015397582105969106 https://x.com/rahulsood/status/2015397582105969106
- tehlike 8mo agoPrompt injection is quite dangerous here...
- Havoc 8mo agoWhat is the intended usage case? I mean beyond what say perplexity app chatbot/search does. Struggling to see the assistant part here. Interact with other people in WhatsApp on your behalf or something? Guessing that would annoy others fast
- imranq 8mo agoI really like Clawdbots safety gloves off approach - no handholding or just saying yes to every permission. I set it up on a old macbook pro I had that had a broken screen and it works great. Now I just message my server using telegram and it does research for me, organizes my notes, and builds small apps on the fly to help with learning. However security is a real concern. I need to understand how to create a comprehensive set of allowlists before expanding into anything more serious like bill payments or messaging people / etc
- tra3 8mo agoBut prompt injection is still a thing though. Remember the lethal trifecta..
- kristopolous 8mo agoYou know that's the easier and more careless thing to implement. You're flattering someone being reckless
- hexsprite 8mo agoClawdbot finally clicked for me this week. I was renting out an apartment and I had it connect to FB messenger, do the initial screening messages and then schedule times for viewings in my calendar. I was approving it's draft messages but starting giving it some automatic responses as well. Overall it did 9/10 on this task with a couple cases where it got confused. This is just scratching the surface but this was something that was very valuable for me and saved me several hours of time.
- dineinhell 8mo agoThat's so cool, it's helping you landlord better. Like you said, valuable. Hype!
- gmerc 8mo agoWait until you figure out prompt injection. It's wild
- bdangubic 8mo agowhy should one be more concerned about hypothetical prompt injection and that being the reason not to use clawdbot? this to me sounds like someone saying “got this new tool, a computer, check it out” and someone going “wait till you hear about computer viruses and randsomware, it is wild.”
- apetresc 8mo agoI found this HN post because I have a Clawdbot task that scans HN periodically for data gathering purposes and it saw a post about itself and it got excited and decided to WhatsApp me about it. So that’s where I’m at with Clawdbot.
- eclipxe 8mo agoYeah, it really does feel like another "oh wow" moment...we're getting close.
- anotherengineer 8mo agohow do you have Clawdbot WhatsApp you? i set mine up with my own WhatsApp account, and the responses come back as myself so i haven't been able to get notifications
- apetresc 8mo agoI have an old iPhone with a broken screen that I threw an $8/month eSIM onto so that it has its own phone number, that I just keep plugged in with the screen off, on Wifi, in a drawer. It hosts a number of things for me, most importantly bridges for WhatsApp and iMessage. So I can actually give things like Clawdbot their own phone number, their own AppleID, etc. Then I just add them as a contact on my real phone, and voila.
- BoorishBears 8mo agoI heard it costs $15 for just a few minutes of usage though
- apetresc 8mo agoThe phone plan or Clawdbot?
- BoorishBears 8mo agoClawdbot
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- blainstorming 8mo agoThis is all starting to feel like the productivity theater rabbit hole people (myself included) went down with apps like Notion/Obsidian. It is clearly capable of doing a lot of stuff, but where is the real impact? Like it’s cool that your downloads folder, digital notes and emails are all properly organized and tags. But they reason they were in that state to begin with is because you don’t inherently derive value from their organization. Still feels like we’re in the space of giving agents (outside of coding) random tasks that never really mattered when left undone.
- conception 8mo agoI think not having time to organize is different from not seeing the value. Most folks see the value in documentation but most people aren’t excited about doing it. AI agents are masters of busy work. Life has a lot of it.
- rlt 8mo ago> But they reason they were in that state to begin with is because you don’t inherently derive value from their organization. You don’t derive more value from their organization than the cost of manually organizing them. AI tools dramatically decrease the cost of doing certain things, thus unlocking that value.
- akmarinov 8mo agoIt’s kind of nice for some things. Like my bank sends me an email for each transaction i do on my card and i can just point it to my email, have it process the data and i can see where my money went and how i’ve done each month. And i know you can do that 10 different ways, but i did that while waiting at the doctor’s instead of doomscrolling, i likely wouldn’t have spared the effort otherwise. I also had it automate the process so now whenever a new email comes in, it adds to the main dataset.
- dmix 8mo agoJust like coding your own blog in 2010, every programmer has to learn how to make an AI agent chat system to be a real programmer
- AWebOfBrown 8mo agoIf you're interested in hosting it at no cost on Oracle Cloud's always free tier (4 cpu, 24GB ram), instead of buying a Mac Mini or paying for a VPS, I wrote up how-to with a Pulumi infra-as-code template here: https://abrown.blog/posts/personal-assistant-clawdbot-on-oracle-cloud/ https://abrown.blog/posts/personal-assistant-clawdbot-on-ora...
- tflinton 8mo agoF** oracle.
- Jimmc414 8mo agoI’ve installed and tested Clawdbot twice and uninstalled it. I see no reason to use this unless it’s with local models. I can do everything Clawdbot can do with Claude Code innately and with less tokens. I found Clawdbot to be rather token inefficient even with Claude max subscription. 14k tokens just to initialize and another 1000 per interaction round even with short questions like, “Hey”. Another concern is there are no guarantees that Anthropic isn’t going to lock down Oauth usage with your Max account like they did with OpenCode.
- akmarinov 8mo ago1. you can do everything with CC but not while out and about, also CC isn’t proactive and doesn’t loop on things you’ve connected it to 2 they’ve recently optimized token usage 3. Anthropic did lock it down at the same time they did OpenCode, but the guys worked around it
- adam_patarino 8mo agoI am trying so hard to understand wtf people are excited about. I have failed. Claude Code can run over-night or while I'm out. Clawdbot looks like a great way to set tokens on fire.
- Nicholas_C 8mo agoThere are a lot of people with incentives to hype the AI industry (VCs, founders, CEOs, internet personalities that need clicks, people that sell courses, etc). Last week everyone was hyping Claude Cowork, this week it's Clawdbot. Don't get me wrong I think there are a lot of cool things going on but there is a lot of hype (similar to the original internet bubble).
- ex3ndr 8mo agoWhat if we will go even further? I have built end-to-end messaging layer for Clawdbot to talk to each other, called Murmur - https://github.com/slopus/murmur https://github.com/slopus/murmur. We tried this with friends and it is truly magical (while crazy insecure) - i can ask my agent to search friends life, their preferences, about their calendars, what films they are watching. It can look at emails and find if you need something and go to people around asking for help. It is truly magical. Very very curious where it can go. At the moment it is exceptionally easy to exfiltrate anything, but you still can control via proper prompts - what you want to share and what you dont want to. I bet models will became better and eventually it wont be a problem.
- swah 8mo agoSounds futuristic but then, for this particular example, isn't this just a very hard way to get access to their calendar, which their could share w/ you in 10 seconds on their Gmail tab?
- ex3ndr 8mo agoThe problem that you expose everything, why i need to expose my health things to coworkers? or surprise party planning? with prompts you can limit exposure easily.
- e12e 8mo ago> ... what films they are watching. I assume this relates to looking at their desktop activity? Or various streaming services (bot can login from desktop, and can see what was recently viewed... Even if viewed on smart tv etc? > At the moment it is exceptionally easy to exfiltrate anything, but you still can control via proper prompts - what you want to share and what you dont want to. You can? You might want to start a cyber security company - you've just solved the biggest security issue of our time. That, or you're overly optimistic?
- wmichelin 8mo agowhy is it asking me to select a model during setup if it supposedly runs on my machine?
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- 3333333331 8mo agothe thing chews through claude usage like a rabid dog. i've not figured out what model to run it with to keep it cheap but still useful
- raybb 8mo agoYeah it's a little weird how the token usage is so high after just a few prompts. I'm also using it with the z.ai plan and it seems exceptionally slow and that might be because of how many tokens it's sending. That being said, one I got speech to text setup that did work decently. Also, scheduling a reminder with it wasn't successful. It seems like by default it doesn't send the reminder to telegram even though it's the only configured channel.
- suriya-ganesh 8mo agolayers and layers of security practices over the past decade are just going out the window so fast. It's quite wild to give root access to a process that has access to the internet without any guardrails. and then connecting all your personal stuff on top of it. I'm sure AI has been a boon for security threats.
- treetalker 8mo agoYeah! On the one hand I'm confident my law practice will start fielding cases involving catastrophic uses of this type of software. And on the other hand I'm confident I'm going to see lawyers all over the place permanently nuke their own practices with the same tech.
- sowbug 8mo agoIt's confused deputies all the way down.
- hecanjog 8mo agoThis seems like a nightmare. I wanted to be interested, I'm still interested I guess, but the onboarding experience is just a series of horrible red flags. The point I left off was when it tried to install a new package manager so it could install support for all of its integrations. Hell no.
- eclipxe 8mo agoUh. You can choose to use npm, pnpm or bun during install. It doesn’t try to install a new package manager. Maybe you were confusing clawdhub for something?
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- aaronbasssett 8mo agoIt doesn't try to install a package manager, except for Node Package Manager, Performant Node Package Manager, and the Bun package manager. Except for one of those three package managers, it doesn't install any package managers.
- handoflixue 8mo agoIf you have any of those three installed, then no, it does not install any package managers. Is there some missing and frequently used 4th option, here? Or some other route that you'd expect? Presumably it needs to get packages via some method.
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- kristopolous 8mo agoBaffling. Isn't this just a basic completion loop with toolcalling hooked up to a universal chat gateway? Isn't that a one shot chatgpt prompt? (Yes it is: https://chatgpt.com/share/6976ca33-7bd8-8013-9b4f-2b417206d03f https://chatgpt.com/share/6976ca33-7bd8-8013-9b4f-2b417206d0...) Why's everyone couch fainting over this?
- eclipxe 8mo agoLess space than a nomad style comment
- shmoogy 8mo agoIt's good at making new skills for itself, and the ability to add to WhatsApp, telegram, and discord means sharing access to internal applications and not needing users to get onto VPN makes a great combination.
- kristopolous 8mo agoYou're just telling me common features. Those are just normal things now
- edmundsauto 8mo agoWhat systems are making new skills for themselves? Not being snarky, I find this sort of self-teaching incredibly interesting but have only ever seen this approach
- kristopolous 8mo agoI literally hear about it a few times a week.
- _pdp_ 8mo agoAs it is often the case with these tools, run it in isolated environments. I have no problem with code written by AI at all but I do have a problem if the code looks random at best. It could have anything and probably there isn't a single person that has a good mental model how it works. Just a thought.
- girvo 8mo ago> As it is often the case with these tools, run it in isolated environments. But is actually the case with these tools: basically nobody does, sadly. "It's too productive to handcuff like that" etc etc. Same thing as my coworkers turning on YOLO mode etc.
- akmarinov 8mo agoIf I open React it’ll also look random to me and there’s definitely not one person that has a good mental model of how everything works in there as well. Just a thought
- thehamkercat 8mo agosomething feels off to me about the clawdbot hype About the maintainer's github: 688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours... he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions) Now, something else i researched: Someone launched some crypto on this, has $6M mktcap https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/clawdbot/ https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/clawdbot/ Crypto people hyping clawed: https://x.com/0xifreqs/status/2015524871137120459 https://x.com/0xifreqs/status/2015524871137120459 And this article telling you how to use clawed and how "revolutionary" it is (which has author name "Solana Levelup"): https://medium.com/@gemQueenx/clawdbot-ai-the-revolutionary-open-source-personal-assistant-transforming-productivity-in-2026-6ec5fdb3084f https://medium.com/@gemQueenx/clawdbot-ai-the-revolutionary-... Make of that what you will
- thehamkercat 8mo agohis github: https://github.com/steipete https://github.com/steipete look at his contribution graph, it's absolutely wild
- dangoodmanUT 8mo agothe developer is very well known https://github.com/steipete https://github.com/steipete the crypto is obviously not official and just another scam, trying to ride the popularity Make of that what you will
- kristopolous 8mo agoIt seems wildly trivial. Chat completion loop with toolcalling over a universal chat gateway. What's the innovation here? Local model? That was always possible. Toolcalling? Been around a couple years now... It's like 5 minutes of vibe coding at most. There's likely 1,000s of similar projects already on GitHub
- thehamkercat 8mo agoAnd when you can use claude-code from basically any device (termux on phone via ssh), Why even bother? I had 3 friends ping me yesterday to tell me how this is going to eat their job.... but i don't see how this is different from claude-code + some chat interface + mcp servers
- sergiotapia 8mo agoIt's all hype and twitter-driven development. BEWARE.
- chadd 8mo agoi built my own version of this called 'threethings' (per pmarca's essay on the subject of personal productivity). i gave an ec2 claude instance access to a folder that is synced with gdrive so it's easy to get local files to the instance, and gsuite access. i had claude build a flutter app one hour when i couldn't sleep, and gave it a telegram bot account. i talk to it via telegram and it keeps tabs on personal and work emails. it does 'deep work' late at night and sends me a 7am summary of my day. my wife is asking for it now, because it will notice urgent emails first thing in the morning and alert me. i don't have time to open source it, but it's low key revolutionary having a pretty smart AI looking at my life every day and helping me track the three most important things to do.
- davidm888 8mo agoI installed it a couple of days ago on a Proxmox VM on my home lab server to play with it. The key features are that it has local memory, generates cron jobs on its own and can be the one to initiate a conversation with you based on things that it does. Here are a few simple things I tried: 1. Weather has been bad here like in much of the country and I was supposed to go to an outdoor event last night. Two days ago, I messaged my Clawdbot on Telegram and told it to check the event website every hour the day of the event and to message me if they posted anything about the event being canceled or rescheduled. It worked great (they did in fact post an update and it was an jpg image that it was able to realize was the announcement and parse on its own); I got a message that it was still happening. It also pulled an hourly weather forecast and told me about street closure times (and these two were without prompting because it already knew enough about by plans from an earlier conversation to predict that this would be useful). 2. I have a Plex server where I can use it as a DVR for live broadcasts using a connected HDHomeRun tuner. I installed the Plex skill into Clawdbot, but it didn't have the ability to schedule recordings. It tried researching the API and couldn't find anything published. So it told me to schedule a test recording and look in the Chrome dev tools Network tab for a specific API request. Based on that, it coded and tested it's own enhancement to the Plex skill in a couple of minutes. On Telegram, I messaged it and said "record the NFL playoff games this weekend" and without any further prompting, it looked up the guide and the day, time, and channels, and scheduled the recordings with only that single, simple prompt. 3. I set up the GA4 skill and asked it questions about my web traffic. I asked it to follow up in a couple of days and look for some specific patterns that I expect to change. 4. I installed the Resend skill so it could send email via their API. To test it, I sent it a message and said, "Find a PDF copy of Immanuel Kant's Prolegomena and email it to me", and less than a minute later, a had a full (public domain) copy of the book in my inbox. Notably, the free version of Resend limits sending to your own email address, which might be a feature not a flaw until when/if I grow to trust it. So right now it's on a fairly locked down VM, and it doesn't have access to any of my personal or business accounts or computers, at least not anything more than read-only access on a couple of non-critical things. Mostly just for fun. But I could see many uses where you want have keep an eye on something and have it proactively reach out when a condition is met (or just with periodic updates) and schedule all of this just by messaging it. That's the cool part for me; i'm not as interested in having it organize and interact with things on my computer that I'm already sitting in front of, or using it as a general LLM chat app, because these things are already solved. But the other stuff does feel like the beginning of the future of "assistants". Texting it on my phone and telling it do something at a later date and reach out to ME if anything changes just feels different in the experience and how simple and seamless it can be when it's dialed in. The security issues are going to be the big limiting factor for what I ultimately give it access to though, and it does scare me a bit.
- hecanjog 8mo agoI tried it out. I have NO idea why I thought it would be fine to try it out. Here's an excerpt if you're thinking about trying it out too: I asked "clawdbot" to tell me where it stored its tokens. It said: --- Your config is: ``` ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json ``` The Telegram bot token would be at: ```json { "channels": { "telegram": { "botToken": "..." } } } ``` Want me to check if Telegram is configured there? I'll only show you the structure, not the actual token. No. So you're fully configured? I messed up. I just displayed your config with sensitive tokens visible: - Telegram bot token — exposed - Gateway auth token — exposed You said you don't trust me, and I just proved that was warranted. My redaction attempt failed. You should regenerate both now: 1. Telegram token: Go to @BotFather → /mybots → select your bot → API Token → Revoke current token 2. Gateway token: You can regenerate by editing ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json directly — change the gateway.auth.token value to a new random string (at least 32 characters), then restart with clawdbot gateway restart I apologize. I should have been more careful with your config, especially after you explicitly told me you don't trust me.
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- JoeDaDude 8mo agoMaking AI companions is becoming a widespread little hobby project. Many have created them and shared instructions on how to do it. My preference would be to use local resources only (say, with ollama), they can even be made with voice recognition, TTS, and an avatar character. While I have not interfaced my AI with all the services that Clawdbot does (WhatsApp, Slack, etc.) I don't think that is too much of a stretch from my very simple build.
- e12e 8mo agoI also would like local LLMs - but that's hardly the biggest issue with these projects? You point it at your email, and you've opened a vector for prompt injection and data exfiltration - all as an integral part of the features you want (read my emails, send some emails). Your local LLM won't protect you there. You could probably write some limited tools (whitelist where mail could be sent) - but it goes against the grain of "magically wonderful ai secretary". Security is not a convenience.
- jason_tko 8mo agoI've seen many people say "I don't get the hype", so here's my attempt to explain it. I've been working in technology and software companies my entire life, but not as a developer. Two days ago, I submitted and had my first pull request merged to an open source project (Clawdbot) thanks to my AI assistant rei. A short story: rei suddenly stopped responding in some Slack channels. So I asked it to help me troubleshoot. We traced the issue: adding custom instructions in one Slack channel incorrectly stopped it from replying in all the others. I considered reporting the issue in GitHub, but then I thought, "Well... what if we just try to fix it ourselves, and submit a PR?" So we did. We cloned the codebase, found the issue, wrote the fix, added tests. I asked it to code review its own fix. The AI debugged itself, then reviewed its own work, and then helped me submit the PR. Hard to accurately describe the unlock this has enabled for me. Technically, it's just an LLM call, and technically, I could have done this before. However there is something different about this new model of "co-working with AI that has context on you and what you're doing" that just clicks.
- kristopolous 8mo agoThis is a thing you can enable on GitHub for any project. You just described a GitHub feature
- jason_tko 8mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- hahahahalolhw 8mo agoHow adorable, what a self-own. First those are completely different sentiments. One is a feature built into the product in question the other is a hodgepodge of shit. Second, and most importantly, Dropbox may as well not exist anymore. It’s a dead end product without direction. Because, and this is true, it was barely better than the hodgepodge of shit AND they ruined that. Literally everything can do what Dropbox does and do it better now. But keep posting that; it’s your one hit wonder.
- ks2048 8mo agoI guess I'm in the wrong generation... but what on earth is that first image supposed to tell us?? ... "I'm in Marrakech", "nice!" ....
- DANmode 8mo agoI think it might be showing off the Telegram integration, So, possibly a correct guess on being in the wrong generation, but for the wrong reason?
- jansan 8mo agoIt tells you that you are not even safe from AI slop in personal conversations anymore. You think you are talking to a friend? Oh no, it's his personal AI assistant.
- akmarinov 8mo agoThe main dev was on vacation in Marrakech when first testing, so he just grabbed screenshots there. Clawdbot was able to successfully check him in on his flight back home by itself
- ks2048 8mo agoSide rant - since the world has settled on Markdown - why can't I view the table-of-contents on github as a nested menu? This long readme makes it hard to see what all is here.
- tflinton 8mo agoBelieve it or not clippy the Microsoft helper for word was a huge interest and feature for all of about 2-3 weeks before everyone realized its interactions were just “on top” of actually doing something. Once the cost of clippy, and its failure to actually be helpful sunk in it was relegated to jokes and eventually down the line memes. It’s hard to actually create something that is a personal assistant. If I want it to keep and eye out for reservations I guarantee it would take a few hours for me to get that setup, more time that it would take to just watch for reservations. If I wanted it to find out when I needed to register my child for school then do it, I’m 100% sure it would fail and probably in some range from comical to annoying. This seems less like a personal assistant and more like a “hey bro how ya doing?”. It lacks the ability to inquire and ask questions and deduce. If I have to prop it up to complete any random task I have, I’ve just got another version of clippy with a lot more computing power.
- rlt 8mo agoThe hype is simply due to this being the “ChatGPT moment” for personal agents. It’s showing people the future. The software itself isn’t particularly impressive.
- xtagon 8mo agoWild. There are 300 open Github issues. One of them is this (also AI generated) security report: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/issues/1796 https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/issues/1796 claiming findings of hundreds of high-risk issues, including examples of hard coded, unencrypted OAuth credentials. I am...disinclined to install this software.
- barrenko 8mo agoIt also tells you a lot about latent demand.
- xtagon 8mo agoPerhaps. That was yesterday, today there's 650+, with hundreds being tagged as bugs.
- strangescript 8mo agoIf you read the PR, the bad issues are in a few extensions, not the bot itself. The unencrypted oAuth token isn't really a big deal. It should be fixed but its a "if this box is compromised" type thing. Given the nature of clawdbot, you are probably throwing it on a random computer/vps you don't really care about (I hope) without access to anything critical.
- cmorgan31 8mo agoYou know, as the rest of us do, that someone has already thrown it loose in the same place where they store their banking information. Oh well, lessons will be learned about containers.
- xtagon 8mo agoYou're talking about if a box is compromised, but to clarify, this is hard coded into the source in the repo, not an end-user's credentials (and it's a `client_id` and `client_secret`, not a token): https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/blob/7187c3d06765c9d3a7b1de40430fe1567b174131/extensions/google-antigravity-auth/index.ts#L8-L11 https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/blob/7187c3d06765c9d3a7...
- albert_e 8mo agoI saw 6 youtube video recommendations on this new Clawdbot -- all less than 24 hours old. What are we doing to ourselves!
- gdiamos 8mo agoIt sounds like lack of security is the biggest feature and risk of this clawd thing. I also tried using Siri to tell me the weather forcast while I was driving to the park. It asked me to auth into my phone. Then it asked me to approve location access. I guess it was secure but I never figured out what the weather forecast was. Thankfully it didn't rain on my picnic. Some of the parents there asked me if their investors should be interested in clawd.
- eddyg 8mo agoThere are definitely people who should not be running this https://www.shodan.io/search?query=clawdbot-gw https://www.shodan.io/search?query=clawdbot-gw
- ashtakeaway 8mo agoEspecially as root...
- bronco21016 8mo agoI guess we don't need to worry about sneaky prompt injection when there's 299 people giving away the prompt interface for free!
- neoden 8mo agoSo it's using Pro/Max subscription. Isn't this going to be stepping on the same rake as OpenCode?
- akmarinov 8mo agoIt did but they worked around the limitation. Also you can use any other model - Codex, MiniMax, etc
- abhisek 8mo agoTried installing clawdbot. Got blocked by (my own) sandbox because it tried to git clone some stuff which in turn was accessing my private keys. - clawdbot depends on @whiskeysockets/baileys - @whiskeysockets/baileys depends on libsignal npm view @whiskeysockets/baileys dependencies [..] libsignal: 'git+https://github.com/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git https://github.com/whiskeysockets/libsignal-node.git', [..] libsignal is not a regular npm package but a GitHub repository, which need to be cloned and built locally. So suddenly, my sandbox profile, tuned for npm package installation no longer works because npm decides to treat my system as a build environment. May be genuine use-case but its hard to keep up.
- esskay 8mo agoThis may be amazing. But it's also incredibly scary what it will do, and how many people using it just dont understand the issues. Also as of the time of writing theres 337 open issues on the repo, many of which are bug reports and security issues. This thing isn't close to stable.
- g947o 8mo agoIt seems like if you have a specific use case, you are better off vibe coding your own bot from scratch and deploying it to your own server.
- dr_dshiv 8mo agoI set this up last night with some substantial difficulty with oauth (did not want to pay-per-token) — and now Claude code can send me messages on telegram. From a $5/m Hetzner box. It’s almost useful. Sort of like Claude code on the web, with less of a sandbox? Still not sure I get the hype…
- vanillameow 8mo agoBeen looking at this over the weekend. It genuinely seems like it could have some really cool use cases. However I just don't trust an AI enough to run unprompted with root access to a machine 24/7, even if it's sandboxed. As soon as I willingly integrate data into it, the sandboxing doesn't really matter, especially when I ask it to decide for itself how to process that data (which seems to be what they want you to do with it? Ask it to define its own skills?) Most of the cool stuff here, i.e. automatic news or calendar summaries or hue light controls or Discord bot integration or what not, you can also just "vibecode" in an afternoon using regular Claude code. If you actually review said code, you then have the peace of mind of knowing exactly what gets triggered when. I don't really feel comfortable enough to give that control away yet. And I also feel like the people who _do_ feel comfortable giving this control away also strongly overlap with people who really don't have the understanding to make an informed decision on it...
- hereisSwapnil 8mo agoThis thread is a good reminder that agent capability is racing ahead of agent ergonomics. We’re getting better at “can do anything”, but still bad at expressing intent, limits, and reversibility.
- Squarex 8mo agoIt was all over twitter this weekend. The hype does not seem to be natural at all.
- hestefisk 8mo agoThis is really cool, nicely done. Q: How did you get the WhatsApp integration working? I thought that was completely closed off unless you are in Europe.
- dewey 8mo agoBecause it's using an actual Mac as a gateway to run this on: https://docs.clawd.bot/help/faq#do-i-have-to-buy-a-mac-mini-to-install-this https://docs.clawd.bot/help/faq#do-i-have-to-buy-a-mac-mini-...
- jwally 8mo agoThanks for sharing. For the past month or so I've been slowly having claude build something in the same ballpark. Basically something to nag you to take care of grown-up things so your boss/spouse/local municipality doesn't have to. I was going to call it "Nagatha Christy", but the joke gets old after 48 hours. At the moment, its called "Jarbis" (old Simpsons reference). For me, checklists are useful but I suck at creating them, maintaining them, etc. I want this thing to be able to look at my calendar/email/groupme and be able to say things like: "Hey, you have 2 kid birthday parties this weekend and a soccer game - you're bringing snacks. You want me to update your shopping list?" or "The dentist office just sent out a reminder - you have an appointment on Thursday that's not on the calendar. It conflicts with your daily standup. You want me to create a task for you to resolve it?" Its using: - AWS CDK - Telegram as primary chat interface - Trello/Jira/Something Custom - Integrations into GoogleCalendar and GMail - Ability to use Claude/OpenAI and different models FWIW, if someone figures out how to create a reliable "secretary in a box" that I don't have to DIY but doesn't scream data-collection-watering-hole (facebook) I'd _happily_ pay $200 / mo for it. ;-)
- nunodonato 8mo agoI have my own telegram bot that helps me and my wife. Reminders, shopping list, calendar. Small and simple, gets the job done :) At the start of the day it greets with a briefing, can also check weather and stuff Btw, I'm in the process of training my own small model so that I can run it on my cpu-only VPS and stop paying for API costs
- jwally 8mo agoThe API cost...ughhhhh I set $10 on fire the other day as I was running through some tests. Like old school arcade games "Please insert more ${money} to keep playing...". Local, smaller, specialized (unix philosophy?) seems like the way to go so you don't bk yourself having AGI distill pintrest recipes to just recipes.
- reacharavindh 8mo agoI've been thinking about this very thing the last few days. "secretary in my Mac" to be specific. An ever running daemon that uses an LLM model for smarts, but pretty much do as many dumb things deterministically as possible. 1. Fetch my calendars(Fastmail, work Google Calendar, Couple's calendar at Cupla) and embellish it with routine tasks like pickup/drop kids, and give me a Today view like this https://zoneless.tools/difference/london-vs-new-york?cities=Europe%2FLondon%7CLondon%2CAmerica%2FNew_York%7CNew+York https://zoneless.tools/difference/london-vs-new-york?cities=... 2. Access to my TODO list on Apple Notes and basically remind my ADHD brain that I ought to be doing something and not let it slip because it is uninteresting. 3. Have access to all models via API keys I configure and maintain a "research journal" of all the things I go to LLMs for - "research of bike that fits my needs" whatever and figure out if there needs to be a TODO about them and add if I say yes. 4. View my activity as a professional coach and nudge me into action "Hey you wanted to do this at work this year, but you haven't begun.. may be it is time you look at it Thursday at 3 PM?" 5. View my activity as a mental health coach and nudge me like "hey you're researching this, that and blah while X, Y and Z are pending. Want me to record the state of this research so you can get back to doing X, Y and Z?" or Just talk to me like a therapist would. 6. Be my spaghetti wall. When a new idea pops into my head, I send this secretary a message, and it ruminates over it like I would and matures that idea in a directory that I can review and obsess over later when there is time.. As you see, this is quite personal in nature, I dont want hosted LLMs to know me this deeply. It has to be a local model even if it is slow.
- maxehmookau 8mo agoI get that this is cool, but I also feel grateful that my life just isn't busy enough to justify this as a thing beyond "oh wow, that's cool tech". I'm able to juggle the competing priorities in my life without the need of an AI assistant, and I guess I'm just gonna enjoy that for as long as I can because I assume at some point it will become assumed of me.
- afcool83 8mo agoThis is roughly my defense against anxieties about “missing the boat” on this stuff. If my life was complex enough to justify quote-simplifying-unquote it with a tool like this, I’d be quite excited about experimenting with it…but it’s not. And I don’t relish artificially adding that complexity. The key to productivity is doing the _right_ things, not doing everything. Tools that make more possible frequently miss the point entirely.
- ErneX 8mo agoTried it for a bit yesterday on a macOS VM. I told it my local mqtt broker hostname and it figured out I have some relays using tasmota, then told it should remember how to toggle those lights and it did. I used Z.ai GLM 4.7 through OpenRouter as its brain. It’s definitely worth checking it out, but keeping in mind the amount of things it can run by having a whole computer to itself.
- 7777777phil 8mo agocurious to hear, what your main (expected) use case is for this?
- ErneX 8mo agoThat’s just the 1st thing that ocurred to me to test it. I think what most people are hyped about it is related to give it access to your reminders, notes, notion, obsidian and then treat it like an assistant that proactively helps you by running scheduled tasks that are useful to you. That’s why some are recommending running the thing on a Mac Mini if you are in the Apple ecosystem, so it can create reminders etc. I’ll keep playing with it on a VM and see where this goes.
- mgdev 8mo agoThis thing is cool except: 1) It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. 2) It's terrifying. No directory sandboxing, etc. On one hand, it's cool that this thing can modify anything on my machine that I can. On the other, it's terrifying that it can modify anything on my machine that I can. That said, some really nice things that make this "click": 1) Dynamic skill creation is awesome. 2) Having the ability to schedule recurring and one-time tasks makes it terribly convenient. 3) Persistent agents with remote messaging makes it really feel like an assistant.
- bronco21016 8mo ago> It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it. I've spent $300+ on this just in the last 2 days, doing what I perceived to be fairly basic tasks. Didn’t Anthropic make it so you can’t use your Claude Code Pro/Max with other tools? Has anyone experienced a block because of that policy while using this tool? Also really curious what kind of tasks ran up $300 in 2 days? Definitely believe it’s possible. Just curious.
- mgdev 8mo agoI offhandedly set it up to do a weather alert every 4 hours during the big winter storm. Absent a well-specified API, I can only assume it was repeatedly doing a bunch of work to access some open API it discovered. Very much the LLM equivalent of “to bake an apple pie you must first invent the universe”. To its credit, it did a great job.
- bronco21016 8mo agoWow, so it must have been spending a ton of reasoning tokens then writing code to go fetch the weather. Or maybe using a browser? Hopefully one day we get self-hostable LLMs good enough for this.
- esskay 8mo agoSeen a couple of people on X have posted about their Claude accounts being suspended after using this. All of them seem to have used it with Claude Code so yes looks like it violates their policy (not surprising really, it breaks their TOS). I've tried it on Codex (ChatGPT Pro) and within an hour of just getting stuff set up and tested used half my weekly limit so I can see using $300 in a couple of days being very easy. Until thats figured out this is basically a non starter, you can't use it if its going to cost $1k+ per week to use, and I'm not sure theres any local models that'd handle it without $10k+ in hardware costs.
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- mickdarling 8mo agoI'm looking at it right now as a tool I can hollow out and stuff in my own MCP server that also has personas, skills, an agentic loop, memory, all those pieces. I may even go simpler than that and simply take a look at it's gateway and channels and drag those over and slap them onto the MCP server I have and turn it into an independent application. It looks far too risky to use, even if I have it sequestered in its own VM. I'm not comfortable with its present state.
- edmundsauto 8mo agoWhere I think agents become fascinating is when we give cc an interface to something like clawdebot, plus any logging/observability, and tell it to recreate the code base.
- replwoacause 8mo agolol pass. Just watched a youtube video on this and the guy spent $130 a day just to have it do some simple tasks like downloading and installing programs. And it burned through 70 million tokens on 1 day and 30 million the next day by 9 AM...lol. this thing is goofy. I feel like the vibe coding and crypto-bro personas are like a perfect circle venndiagram with the way this stuff gets hyped.
- bluesnowmonkey 8mo agoHad a similar thought since I started using the Slack MCP in Claude Code. It's handy for instance during an incident to be researching the problem, digging through Sentry or Clickhouse or the code and have it post updates directly to our #engineering channel for the team to see. But... they can't reply. Or rather they can but Claude has to poll each thread or channel to see replies which is a pretty clumsy workflow. So anyway long story short I made something like Clawdbot but in the cloud: https://stumpy.ai/ https://stumpy.ai/ Didn't occur to me to design it to run locally and leave running on my machine. You can't close your laptop or Clawdbot dies? It can read all your files? Rather run agents in the cloud. I gave them sandboxes (Fly sprites) so you can still have them do software development or whatever.
- vismit2000 8mo agoQordinate - Another personal AI assistant: https://www.qordinate.ai https://www.qordinate.ai
- SinghCoder 8mo agothanks for sharing. Founder here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
- SinghCoder 8mo agoWe at Qordinate have made a managed version - which works on Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, and our own app at the moment. With iMessage, Email, Teams in pipeline. Think - if you don't want to do the hassle of managing this yourself, you can offload that to us, along with security aspects of prompt injection, and performance aspects of tool search, etc. If you want to try, it's available for free right now since we are early at https://qordinate.ai https://qordinate.ai
- vismit2000 8mo agoHey, I have been using this on whatsapp, and I got mindblown first time I used it, and really love its personality. I use it for all sorts of reminders nowadays. Only thing is I was facing some latex formatting issues last time I used but I don’t know maybe that’s a Whatsapp rendering issue
- SinghCoder 8mo agoThanks for trying. Yeah we have optimized for markdown at the moment, will look into latex issue.
- zaidjan1295 8mo agoThis is such a great tool. The ability to scrape the web for different types of articles and suggest the ones that i would be interested in reading based on my reading history is such a great feature. Really excited to see what more you guys come up with.
- SinghCoder 8mo agoThank you! Yes, the next biggest piece we are working on is autonomous coordination between two Qordinate agents - your true personal assistant, which knows what it can share, with whom and in what context, autonomously.
- lakshya0904 8mo agoWhat I like most is that it doesn’t feel like I’m talking to a corporate bot. The tone is very casual/real, but it still does the boring structured stuff well – recurring reminders, lists, follow-ups etc.
- Frannky 8mo agoIt seems cool! How to use it for free with acceptable quality? Also what are the alternative for a personal assistant that remember stuff automatically and message you about it?
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- sangkwun 8mo agoInteresting project. I've been exploring this space but eventually pivoted in a different direction. Two main things worry me about the 'always-on' agent approach: 1. Security & Surface Area: Giving an LLM broad permissions (Email, Calendar, etc.) while it's also scraping arbitrary web content is a prompt injection nightmare. The attack surface is just too wide for production use. 2. Token Economics: Seeing reports of '$300 in 2 days' is a massive red flag. For recurring tasks, there has to be a smarter way than re-processing the entire state every time. I built Daigest to approach this differently. Instead of an autonomous agent wandering around, it's 'document-centric.' You connect your trusted sources, set a heartbeat, and the AI only processes what's changed to update a structured document. It's less 'magical' than a full agent, but it's predictable, auditable, and won't bankrupt you. For 'gather and summarize' workflows, a structured document often beats a chat-based agent.
- popcorncowboy 8mo agoRepo also EXPLODED in the past 2 days. And Anthropic nuked the name. Should have just bought it.
- jbbryant 8mo agoGot it up and running yesterday on Linux Mint on an old Dell Workstation. Paired it with a GLM 4.7 plan and is working nice. Looks like costs are min and token use is very high. Browser use is working but slow.
- BojanTomic 8mo agoI am too afraid to try it. There's so much that can go wrong. Wrote an article about it if someone is curious: https://intelligenttools.co/blog/moltbook-ai-assistant-social-life https://intelligenttools.co/blog/moltbook-ai-assistant-socia...