**Meet Clawdbot: The Open-Source AI Assistant That’s About to Change the Game**
Imagine having a personal AI assistant that can understand your natural language, perform tasks, and communicate with you seamlessly across all your favorite platforms. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, welcome to Clawdbot, an open-source AI assistant that’s about to make that a reality.
So, what is Clawdbot, exactly?
**The Lowdown**
Clawdbot is an open-source AI assistant that you can run on your own hardware. It connects massive language models from top suppliers like Anthropic and OpenAI to real-world tools like messaging apps, browsers, and smart home devices, all while keeping the orchestration layer under your control. Think of it like a super-smart butler that can do your bidding, without breaking the bank.
**The Heart of the Matter: Gateway, Nodes, and Skills**
At the core of Clawdbot is the Gateway process. This is the magic that makes it all happen, exposing a WebSocket control interface and a local HTTP interface for the control UI and web chat. Your messages from WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Slack, Discord, iMessage, and other channels are piped into the Gateway, which then decides which agent should handle the message, which tools to call, and which model supplier to use. The reply is then sent back to the same channel, like a well-oiled machine.
**Skills and Automation**
Clawdbot uses an open skills format described in `SKILL.md`. A skill is essentially a set of instructions in Markdown that can be run on-demand or scheduled. For instance, a deployment skill might include steps like checking Git status, running tests, and deploying only if everything checks out).
**Lobster: The Workflow Runtime**
Lobster is the workflow runtime that powers Native Lobster and many advanced Clawdbot automations. In plain English, it’s a typed workflow shell that lets Clawdbot run complex, multi-step sequences as a single, deterministic operation with approval gates.
**Proactive, Local-First Behavior**
The real magic happens when Clawdbot behaves like an operator, not just a chat window. With the Gateway running scheduled jobs and monitoring state across sessions, you can enjoy:
* Daily briefings that summarize your calendar, tasks, and email.
* Periodic recaps like weekly shipped work summaries.
* Displays that show you what’s coming up, and message you first in your preferred channel.
* File and repository automations that run locally but are triggered by natural language.
**Getting Started**
Installation is a breeze, thanks to a one-line installer that fetches a script from `clawd.bot` and gets everything up and running with Node. Alternatively, you can install through npm or clone the TypeScript repository and build with pnpm.
**Examples and Use Cases**
Here are a few examples of what you can achieve with Clawdbot:
* Setting up a local model to handle web site summaries and simple tasks.
* Controlling LMStudio remotely from Telegram, downloading Qwen, and using it to power some of your tasks with Clawdbot.
* Creating an AI that takes an idea, manages codex and claude, debates them on opinions autonomously, and lets you know when it’s done.
In short, Clawdbot is not just a chatbot – it’s a powerful automation engine that can revolutionize the way you work. Get ready to see what you can achieve with this game-changing AI assistant.
