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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 fabienpenso »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #30
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)

Heartbeat: is run on a regular interval (you choose) and can do something you define in the heartbeat prompt section of that settings.

Crons: is run when you want, you can ask to Moltis things like "do every day at X" and it will automatically create a cron entry, you can disable later.

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

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Post by sathish316 »

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…

Don’t install skills in OpenClaw or Moltis for security reasons. Self-extension or self-evolving nature means that you can customise it to create your own skills

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

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Post by sathish316 »

zimbatm wrote: post #20

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

Self modifying part is through skills:

Assistant -> Skill -> Script.

As you keep modifying or adding capabilities, it’s the script that gets modified. Atleast that’s how OpenClaw works, I’m not sure how Moltis implements self-modifying part.

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

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Post by sathish316 »

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…

Thanks for building Moltis. How does Rust alone make it more secure and immune to Prompt injection attacks?

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

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Post by fabienpenso »

afro88 wrote: post #22
fabienpenso wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Moltis can do all that yes, unless I missed something. And it's way easier to setup.

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

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Post by fabienpenso »

canadiantim wrote: post #28
fabienpenso wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

To be honest, I was looking at a short name, something than "Rustacean" would get, had a domain name available, easy to pronounce. I didn't like rustclaw, I think having similar name doesn't mean much unless it's very related, like tinyclaw being a typescript simili I get it.

For the logo, I do think everyone went for the lobster meme for a connection to clawdbot. But in my case it's because I wanted to use a derivative of the Rust logo, a crab.

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