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Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

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Re: Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

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Post by afro88 »

fabienpenso wrote: post #10
michelsedgh wrote: post #7

I haven’t yet tried openclaw but can someone tell me how is this project different than that? Is this basically a different take on the same thing as openclaw? Dont get me wrong im not against it I just was wondering if theyre basically doing the same thing? If that’s the case I actually appreciate both projects, but idk what theyre doing and how theyre different?

author here. It's a different take and heavily inspired at first by OpenClaw, which is a great product and Peter the founder is an amazing human being. I'm adding features than I want, since I do Moltis for my own use but also try to add features than others will enjoy. I think Rust makes a lot of sense security wise, it does add benefits like being a single binary and very easy to install. I also tried to make it ea…

Aside from security and efficiency, is there anything openclaw and do that moltis can't? Like for example, does moltis have the "heartbeat" thing, short and long term memory, can update a soul.md etc?

I'm so keen to try openclaw in a locked down environment but the onboarding docs are a mess and I can see references to the old name in markdowns and stuff like that. Seems like a lot of work just to get up and running.

Re: Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

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Post by wortelefant »

zimbatm wrote: post #20

Isn't the point of OpenClaw that the agent can modify itself?

If you run it with a cheaper model or just once in a while, it will write sometjing unexpected into its config json, restart and crash. Happens every few days. I learned to back up the config the hard way

Re: Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

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Post by dkasper »

LaurensBER wrote: post #8

Very cool! I love the approach, OpenClaw is really cool but there's two major things holding me back for deploying it from friends a family; - Cybersecurity (you can't expect a non-technical person to read a skill) - Token usage (without a flat fee subscription it'll become expensive very fast) I understand that security is a hard problem to solve but having a single binary + containers should definitely help! I'll d…

You can run it with a ChatGPT subscription (or even a local model) so it can be flat fee

Re: Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

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Post by w10-1 »

How can I (anyone) help?

You seem to have a good sense of what you want to do, and a manageable queue of bugs and PR's, but this projects has so many dimensions/large feature surface, you/one could get lost chasing everything or dealing with feedback and help. Any guidance? Just fix bugs we bump into?

Re: Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

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Post by canadiantim »

fabienpenso wrote: post #18
canadiantim wrote: post #15

Very nice. Though, I am looking forward to the next generation of AI agents that aren't named after a lobster

There is actually a reason, the Rust logo is a crab named Ferris: https://rustacean.net

ah that's fair, that makes a lot more sense.

I thought it was all from "clawdbot" being renamed to "moltbot" to "openclaw". Thought everyone stuck with the lobster meme simply because of the claude code origins of clawdbot.

Re: Show HN: Moltis – AI assistant with memory, tools, and self-extending skills

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Post by Rebelgecko »

theturtletalks wrote: post #25

Is there a heartbeat equivalent? It seems a lot of the magic of OpenClaw is the heartbeat functionality that keeps the agent running and being “self-driven.”

From poking around the UI, there's Heartbeat and Cron sections (not sure what the difference is)
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