Cruise Chen

OpenClaw - The AI that actually does things

Formerly Moltbot and Clawbot, OpenClaw turns your computer into a 24/7 personal agent accessible from any chat app. Control your browser, execute shell commands, manage files, and automate workflows via WhatsApp or Telegram. Features persistent memory, full system access, local privacy, and 50+ integrations.

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Cruise Chen
Hi Product Hunt! Most AI assistants are trapped in a browser tab. They can generate text, but they can't do anything. I found Clawbot really interesting - it is gonna change that. Clawbot is a self-hosted agent that lives on your machine (Mac, Windows, or Linux). It bridges the gap between LLM intelligence and your operating system's capabilities. What makes it different? - 🏠 Local & Private: Your data stays on your machine. - 📱 Chat Anywhere: It texts you back on WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, or Slack. - ⚡ Real Action: It doesn't just talk. It can open browsers, fill forms, run terminal commands, and edit files. - 🧠 Memory: It remembers you. No more starting from scratch every session. It's fully hackable and open to plugins. I'd love to see what skills you build for it. Maybe AI moves on to next stage.
liu shawking

@cruise_chen "It's fully hackable"—What does that mean? Doesn't that make it very dangerous? This statement of yours has caught my interest. LOL

Aditya Garg

@cruise_chen  @shawking Can anyone explain? I am curious.

Nika

Yesterday, I was trying to install it. But also saw how many people started complaining about attacks and hack attempts. This opens doors to new business ideas to patch the blind spots.

Justin Jincaid

@busmark_w_nika Me too! I finally made it with a VPS and started exploring it. So far so good.

Michael

@busmark_w_nika  @justin2025 https://testclawdbot.com/ is going to fix that with 1 click VPS deployment, it also automatically loads moltbot on launch

Frank Li

This is what people have been waiting for: an open-source agent that can turn ideas into actionable plans and execution. It’s quite similar to Minara, which we launched yesterday. But we’re particularly focused on closing the loop from analysis to decision to on-chain execution in digital finance.

Ryan Thill

Agents with full shell + file access hit scale issues fast when permissions and secrets are too coarse, and chat ingress gets probed as soon as it is public.

Best practice is capability based allowlists enforced by a policy engine like OPA, plus sandboxed execution (namespaces seccomp or gVisor) and append only audit logs per action.

How do you authenticate each chat channel and map users to scoped capabilities, and is per tool trace replay or human approval on the roadmap?

Rishi Shah

As a heavy power user of Poke for proactive, messaging-native assistance on top of my email and calendar, I’m curious: what are some workflows where you’ve seen Clawdbot actually outperform Poke in the real world.

Armaan Agrawal
@byrishi Curious, what are some of your best Poke use cases? Wonder if there were any great things, flaws or lacking points that stood out
Abdul Rehman

I love that it’s hackable. This feels less like a tool and more like a platform waiting for crazy ideas.

Tom Morkes

this looks really great @steipete. excited to try it out :)

Stephan Schulz

I suspect operating systems will eventually become headless, driven by context and intent rather than windows and clicks. This feels like a step in that direction. Congrats.

Fabio Salvadori

This is really exciting. I'd love to get in touch with the team to integrate with our OSS lightweight protocol for making agent actions safer by requiring verifiable intent + provenance + evidence before high-impact tool calls (fail-closed by default). It fits super well with Moltbot's agent/tool workflow (ie. wrapping tool calls in Pi sessions with a quick verification step via SDK/JS port). Could add proactive security for things like browser, nodes, camera, or system exec without much overhead. Would love to explore an integration and happy to prototype a skill/wrapper or submit a PR if you're open.
Either way, supported and wish you all the best.

Gokul Chandrasekaran

Except running it locally, what other advantage it has? it is going to hit the same LLMs living on the cloud and sharing my data with them right?

Cruise Chen

@gokuljd local first is definitely one of the biggest selling point.

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