{"id":50783,"date":"2026-01-22T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T21:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50783"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:19:53","slug":"clawdbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/22\/clawdbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Clawdbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clawd.bot\/\">Clawdbot<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/clawdbot\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clawd.bot\/showcase\">Showcase<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.clawd.bot\">Documentation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/clawdbot\/clawdbot\">GitHub<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/clawd.bot\/\">\n<p>Clears your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights.\nAll from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like\/\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/clawdbot-showed-me-what-the-future-of-personal-ai-assistants-looks-like\/\">\n<p>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&rsquo;ve been playing around with Clawdbot so much, I&rsquo;ve burned through 180 million tokens on the Anthropic API (<em>yikes<\/em>), and I&rsquo;ve had fewer and fewer conversations with the &ldquo;regular&rdquo; Claude and ChatGPT apps in the process. Don&rsquo;t get me wrong: Clawdbot is a nerdy project, a tinkerer&rsquo;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&rsquo;s exactly the kind of bleeding-edge project that MacStories readers will appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>Clawdbot can be overwhelming at first, so I&rsquo;ll try my best to explain what it is and why it&rsquo;s so exciting and fun to play around with. Clawdbot is, at a high level, two things:<\/p>\n<ul><li>An LLM-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.clawd.bot\/concepts\/agent-workspace\">agent<\/a> that runs on your computer and can use <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.clawd.bot\/concepts\/model-providers\">many of the popular models<\/a> such as Claude, Gemini, etc.<\/li>\n<li>A &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.clawd.bot\/gateway#gateway-daemon-runbook\">gateway<\/a>&rdquo; that lets you talk to the agent using the messaging app of your choice, including iMessage, Telegram, WhatsApp and others.<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>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 href=\"https:\/\/clawdhub.com\/\">a vibrant community<\/a> that is contributing skills and plugins for Clawdbot, plus Steinberger&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/steipete\">own collection of command-line utilities<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@steipete\/115928636716067050\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@steipete\/115928636716067050\">\n<p>Apps will melt away. The prompt is your new interface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonahships_\/status\/2010605025844723765\">Jonah H.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jonahships_\/status\/2010605025844723765\">\n<p>It&rsquo;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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iamsubhrajyoti\/status\/2009949389884920153\">Subhrajyoti Sen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iamsubhrajyoti\/status\/2009949389884920153\">\n<p>I can understand why people love \n@clawdbot\n so much. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bangkokbuild\/status\/2013024865393975718\">Max Reid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bangkokbuild\/status\/2013024865393975718\">\n<p>Now it: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logs my sleep\/health\/exercise data and tells me when I stay up too late<\/li>\n<li>Writes code and deploys it<\/li>\n<li>Writes Ralph loop markdown files that I deploy later<\/li>\n<li>Updates Obsidian daily notes<\/li>\n<li>Tracks who visits MenuCapture and where they came from<\/li>\n<li>Monitors earthquakes in Tokyo<\/li>\n<li>Researches stuff online and saves files to my desktop<\/li>\n<li>Manage memory across sessions by remembering my projects, patterns and preferences<\/li>\n<li>Reminds me of my schedule, including holidays\/accommodation<\/li>\n<li>Checks on me (on Telegram!) if I&rsquo;m quiet too long<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/conradsagewiz\/status\/2012954824631898300\">Conrad Sasheen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/conradsagewiz\/status\/2012954824631898300\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m literally on my phone in a telegram chat and it&rsquo;s communicating with codex cli on my computer creating detailed spec files while out on a walk with my dog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davemorin\/status\/2013723700668096605\">Dave Morin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davemorin\/status\/2013723700668096605\">\n<p>At this point I don&rsquo;t even know what to call \n@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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/01\/the-year-in-llms-2025\/\">The Year in LLMs: 2025<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/apple-llm-generating-swiftui\/\">Apple LLM Generating SwiftUI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/03\/sky-preview\/\">Sky Preview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/03\/model-context-protocol-mcp-tools-for-mac\/\">Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tools for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/12\/apple-delays-more-personalized-siri-apple-intelligence-features\/\">Apple Delays &ldquo;More Personalized Siri&rdquo; Apple Intelligence Features<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"clawdbot-update-2026-01-28\">Update (<a href=\"#clawdbot-update-2026-01-28\">2026-01-28<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/01\/26\/viticci-on-clawdbot\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/01\/26\/viticci-on-clawdbot\">\n<p>This essay from Viticci is the first thing I&rsquo;ve seen that really helped me <em>start<\/em> to understand it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/01\/27\/clawdbot-is-now-moltbot\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2026\/01\/27\/clawdbot-is-now-moltbot\">\n<p>Those tokens aren&rsquo;t free. I asked Viticci just how much &ldquo;yikes&rdquo; cost, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.macstories.net\/@viticci\/115968901926545907\">he said<\/a> around US$560&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;using way more input than output tokens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acolombiadev\/status\/2015469009789968854\">Andrea<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acolombiadev\/status\/2015469009789968854\">\n<p>Had a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/acolombiadev\/status\/2015469009789968854\">great chat with Peter Steinberger<\/a> about @clawdbot, the open-source AI personal assistant with a lobster-sized personality. &#x1F99E;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/localghost\/status\/2015218302994587826\">Aaron Ng<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/localghost\/status\/2015218302994587826\">\n<p>I think part of Clawdbot&rsquo;s success is from being something a big co would never make.<\/p>\n<p>Too much liability, messy business model, risky to deploy, ecosystem comparability&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s why it&rsquo;s so great: it&rsquo;s just useful instead of trying to be those other things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/steipete\/status\/2015954706883846540\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/steipete\/status\/2015954706883846540\">\n<p>The amount of crap I get for putting out a hobby project for free is quite something.<\/p>\n<p>People treat this like a multi-million dollar business. Security researchers demanding a bounty.\nHeck, I can barely buy a Mac Mini from the Sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s supposed to inspire people. And I&rsquo;m glad it does.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, most non-techies should not install this.\nIt&rsquo;s not finished, I know about the sharp edges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>There&rsquo;s more discussion on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=46760237\">Hacker News<\/a> and at <a href=\"https:\/\/talk.macpowerusers.com\/t\/clawdbot-personal-assistant\/44163\">Mac Power Users<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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