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Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#31
layers 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.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#32
This 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.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#34
As 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.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#35
something 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/

Crypto people hyping clawed: 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-...

Make of that what you will

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#36

I 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.

how 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

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#37

Baffling. 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-2b417206d0... ) Why's everyone couch fainting over this?

Less space than a nomad style comment

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#38

something 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 re…

his github: https://github.com/steipete

look at his contribution graph, it's absolutely wild

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#39

This 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.

Uh. 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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