Clawdbot
Clawdbot (Twitter, Showcase, Documentation, GitHub):
Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
To say that Clawdbot has fundamentally altered my perspective of what it means to have an intelligent, personal AI assistant in 2026 would be an understatement. I’ve been playing around with Clawdbot so much, I’ve burned through 180 million tokens on the Anthropic API (yikes), and I’ve had fewer and fewer conversations with the “regular” Claude and ChatGPT apps in the process. Don’t get me wrong: Clawdbot is a nerdy project, a tinkerer’s laboratory that is not poised to overtake the popularity of consumer LLMs any time soon. Still, Clawdbot points at a fascinating future for digital assistants, and it’s exactly the kind of bleeding-edge project that MacStories readers will appreciate.
Clawdbot can be overwhelming at first, so I’ll try my best to explain what it is and why it’s so exciting and fun to play around with. Clawdbot is, at a high level, two things:
- An LLM-powered agent that runs on your computer and can use many of the popular models such as Claude, Gemini, etc.
- A “gateway” that lets you talk to the agent using the messaging app of your choice, including iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp and others.
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Given the right permissions, Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them, install skills to gain new capabilities, and set up MCP servers to give itself new external integrations. Combine all this with a vibrant community that is contributing skills and plugins for Clawdbot, plus Steinberger’s own collection of command-line utilities, and you have yourself a recipe for a self-improving, steerable, and open personal agent that knows you, can access the web, runs on your local machine, and can do just about anything you can think of.
Apps will melt away. The prompt is your new interface.
It’s the fact that clawd can just keep building upon itself just by talking to it in discord is crazy. The future is already here.
I can understand why people love @clawdbot so much.
I wanted to automate some tasks from Todoist and clawd was able to create a skill for it on its own, all within a Telegram chat.
Now it:
- Logs my sleep/health/exercise data and tells me when I stay up too late
- Writes code and deploys it
- Writes Ralph loop markdown files that I deploy later
- Updates Obsidian daily notes
- Tracks who visits MenuCapture and where they came from
- Monitors earthquakes in Tokyo
- Researches stuff online and saves files to my desktop
- Manage memory across sessions by remembering my projects, patterns and preferences
- Reminds me of my schedule, including holidays/accommodation
- Checks on me (on Telegram!) if I’m quiet too long
I’m literally on my phone in a telegram chat and it’s communicating with codex cli on my computer creating detailed spec files while out on a walk with my dog.
At this point I don’t even know what to call @clawdbot. It is something new. After a few weeks in with it, this is the first time I have felt like I am living in the future since the launch of ChatGPT.
Previously:
- The Year in LLMs: 2025
- Apple LLM Generating SwiftUI
- Sky Preview
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for Mac
- Apple Delays “More Personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence Features
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Absolutely depressing. The unconditional delegation of even basic tasks to this thing. The dependence on it that will inevitably take place. Also, think about the level of access to your stuff this thing is allowed to have. What happens when a bad actor takes advantage of that? How secure is this thing?
The lack of security is the big issue for me. I don’t trust these companies to have that kind of access. Especially not together, connected in some way
"What happens when a bad actor takes advantage of that?"
You don't even need a bad actor, just an accidental, incorrect action from the LLM. It's funny to me that I'm running opencode in Docker just so it can't fuck with unversioned files, and other people are like, "Here's my whole life, go wild!"
They all sounds so giddy, like small children with their new toy, until the disaster happens.
Are these serious people or just bloggers who pretend to know software, and just write for clicks.
Gotta clear out my RSS/Instapaper backlog to make room for the inevitable trove of stories about people growing dependent on these services, only to watch them go belly up when there’s no money to be made. Bricked smart appliances have nothing on what’s about to happen next.
@Vajk The main developer, Peter Steinberger, is a respected developer who built the best iOS/Android library for working with PDF files.
I do find it all rather scary, and I hope to see better ways to isolate what it can do, but I think this is something to watch.
