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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by hecanjog »

I 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:

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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.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by eikenberry »

thehamkercat wrote: post #51
kristopolous wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It 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

And 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

> Why even bother?

Claude-code is closed-source. That is a good enough reason to look at alternatives.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by shmoogy »

kristopolous wrote: post #33

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?

It'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.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by ex3ndr »

thehamkercat wrote: post #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 re…

i have tried this workflow and it is solid. It is a codex that commits once it finishes something. You can pipeline changes, so it works like in 5-10min intervals and it gets mostly right, much better (and much slower) than opus. He has two computers and one for longer running tasks and another for short one. I suppose you just pipeline a bunch of small issues to the long term one and ask it to work and work on the repo. Another one is probably where he is more engaged with specific tasks. Impressive that it works quite good.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by bdangubic »

gmerc wrote: post #44
hexsprite wrote: post #17

Clawdbot 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 som…

Wait until you figure out prompt injection. It's wild

why 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.”

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by raybb »

chadd wrote: post #41

i 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 w…

How do you deal with context management?

What are you doing for storage? Markdown files for each day or something?

Sounds great!

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by cherioo »

atonse wrote: post #4

Clawdbot 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 da…

What 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.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by JoeDaDude »

Making 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.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by mentos »

jhickok wrote: post #7
1-6 wrote: post #5

I 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…

I 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…

What’s the main use case for you or feature with the greatest promise?

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by atonse »

cherioo wrote: post #67
atonse wrote: post #4

Clawdbot 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 da…

What 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.

I see opus for everything in general cuz I’m a Max user but I’ll double check.
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