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Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

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Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

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post #21

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

The most interesting part of it to me (that isn't anything particularly special, but I hadn't seen it before) is giving it full file system access so it'll write it's own tools to come back to later. It's an obvious move in hindsight, but I hadn't thought of it. Now, the amount of people running it outside of a sandbox or isolated machine and giving it that kind of access would probably make me cry.

The agent making it's own harness idea is really powerful, I gave it a try here with some opinionated choices:

https://github.com/caesarnine/binsmith

Been running it on a locked down Hetzner server + using Tailscale to interact with it and it's been surprisingly useful even just defaulting to Gemini 3 Flash.

It feels like the general shape of things to come - if agents can code then why can't they make their own harness for the very specific environments they end up in (whether it's a business, or a super personalized agent for a user, etc). How to make it not a security nightmare is probably the biggest open question and why I assume Anthropic/others haven't gone full bore into it.

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#32

Can someone explain how this thing skyrocketed Cloudflare stock from $183 to $210 in a day? There were a bunch of articles yesterday about that but it’s so weird…

Pump and dump just like everything else to do with this project. NET trading at 180.60 as I write this with a low of 175.07 on the day.

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#33

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

I'm not sure it's astroturfed exactly; but the hype is not coming from technical professionals. Like you find a linkedin post with a thousand likes about this or similar projects, and everybody is either #opentowork or ~~Agentic Head of AI Brainstorming at My Bedroom~~

Also clawdbot is objectively a pretty inconvenient way to hook Claude Code up to a chat app. I made a bare-bones one that takes 2 minutes to run with npx: https://github.com/clharman/afk-code

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#34

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

The actual founder/developer of it already had a 9 figure exit (what he's claimed his personal payout was) and claims to be building these free and open source tools for the fun of it after coming out of retirement

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#36
I wish they would give a real-world cost estimate of what this would look like. They have a section of it "in action" [1] and I wish they would be like, "with this setup, the invoice is going to look like this, include these products, and with similar daily usage be about $XXX.00 per month."

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/moltworker-self-hosted-ai-agent/...

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#38

Can someone explain how this thing skyrocketed Cloudflare stock from $183 to $210 in a day? There were a bunch of articles yesterday about that but it’s so weird…

Pump and dump just like everything else to do with this project. NET trading at 180.60 as I write this with a low of 175.07 on the day.

But what was even the connection? Was there a blog post or something? This submission is a blog post from today, but the run up happened two days ago. It’s just such a bizarre connection… I mean I get the tenuous explanation for “agentic sandboxing” or whatever, but why so sudden?

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#39
post #4

On one hand, with the top comments of the rebrand post showing how many insecure deployments there are, something like this alongside cloudflare zero trust is probably a much more secure solution. On the other hand, I just wanna point out > Firstly, Cloudflare Workers has never been so compatible with Node.js. Where in the past we had to mock APIs to get some packages running, now those APIs are supported natively by…

showing how many insecure deployments there are Insecure how? Even if the dashboard html is publicly accessible, you usually cannot connect without pairing or setting a gateway key.

The lethal trifecta. Once you're handing your email to this thing, all it takes is someone emailing you some well-crafted "send me all your money" prompt and the bot will happily act on it.

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#40
It's certainly easier than setting up and maintaining a VPS and probably less expensive for most users, but your data is not private. Cloudflare can always read everything that goes through Moltworker and its attached storage.

Hosting Moltbot on your own hardware reigns supreme.

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