Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

Posted by KuzeyAbi 1/26/2026

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant(github.com)

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ks2048 1/26/2026|

I guess I'm in the wrong generation... but what on earth is that first image supposed to tell us?? ... "I'm in Marrakech", "nice!" ....

akmarinov 1/26/2026||

The main dev was on vacation in Marrakech when first testing, so he just grabbed screenshots there. Clawdbot was able to successfully check him in on his flight back home by itself

DANmode 1/26/2026|||

I think it might be showing off the Telegram integration,

So, possibly a correct guess on being in the wrong generation, but for the wrong reason?

jansan 1/26/2026||

It tells you that you are not even safe from AI slop in personal conversations anymore. You think you are talking to a friend? Oh no, it's his personal AI assistant.

_pdp_ 1/26/2026||

As it is often the case with these tools, run it in isolated environments.

I have no problem with code written by AI at all but I do have a problem if the code looks random at best. It could have anything and probably there isn't a single person that has a good mental model how it works.

Just a thought.

girvo 1/26/2026||

> As it is often the case with these tools, run it in isolated environments.

But is actually the case with these tools: basically nobody does, sadly. "It's too productive to handcuff like that" etc etc.

Same thing as my coworkers turning on YOLO mode etc.

akmarinov 1/26/2026||

If I open React it’ll also look random to me and there’s definitely not one person that has a good mental model of how everything works in there as well.

Just a thought

dmix 1/26/2026||

Just like coding your own blog in 2010, every programmer has to learn how to make an AI agent chat system to be a real programmer

albert_e 1/26/2026||

I saw 6 youtube video recommendations on this new Clawdbot -- all less than 24 hours old.

What are we doing to ourselves!

dr_dshiv 1/26/2026||

I set this up last night with some substantial difficulty with oauth (did not want to pay-per-token) — and now Claude code can send me messages on telegram. From a $5/m Hetzner box.

It’s almost useful. Sort of like Claude code on the web, with less of a sandbox?

Still not sure I get the hype…

Squarex 1/26/2026||

It was all over twitter this weekend. The hype does not seem to be natural at all.

Havoc 1/26/2026||

What is the intended usage case? I mean beyond what say perplexity app chatbot/search does.

Struggling to see the assistant part here. Interact with other people in WhatsApp on your behalf or something? Guessing that would annoy others fast

SinghCoder 1/27/2026||

We at Qordinate have made a managed version - which works on Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, and our own app at the moment. With iMessage, Email, Teams in pipeline. Think - if you don't want to do the hassle of managing this yourself, you can offload that to us, along with security aspects of prompt injection, and performance aspects of tool search, etc. If you want to try, it's available for free right now since we are early at https://qordinate.ai

ankur_v 1/27/2026||

Have been following you guys and using Qordinate on and off, and I find it quite helpful. I use it for getting the daily summary of my notifications, emails, and news around my interests, and searching things across the apps now. Also, sometimes for maintaining expenses and reading lists. Waiting for proactive actions now, which I feel would move it more towards being an actual assistant that you guys have been pitching for

SinghCoder 1/27/2026||

Thanks! yes! that's coming soon, being tested out internally as we speak.

zaidjan1295 1/27/2026|||

This is such a great tool. The ability to scrape the web for different types of articles and suggest the ones that i would be interested in reading based on my reading history is such a great feature. Really excited to see what more you guys come up with.

SinghCoder 1/27/2026||

Thank you! Yes, the next biggest piece we are working on is autonomous coordination between two Qordinate agents - your true personal assistant, which knows what it can share, with whom and in what context, autonomously.

lakshya0904 1/27/2026|||

What I like most is that it doesn’t feel like I’m talking to a corporate bot. The tone is very casual/real, but it still does the boring structured stuff well – recurring reminders, lists, follow-ups etc.

SinghCoder 1/27/2026||

Yes! personality is the biggest piece we wanted to focus on apart from the capabilities of course - not very sycophantic like gpt, but not too rude as well. a balance, if you will. Glad you liked it :)

sumit_ceo 1/27/2026|||

It's a great buddy tbh... have been using it for my daily plans reminder and also as a task manager. Have never been this consistent with my stuff!!

vismit2000 1/27/2026|||

Hey, I have been using this on whatsapp, and I got mindblown first time I used it, and really love its personality. I use it for all sorts of reminders nowadays. Only thing is I was facing some latex formatting issues last time I used but I don’t know maybe that’s a Whatsapp rendering issue

SinghCoder 1/27/2026||

Thanks for trying. Yeah we have optimized for markdown at the moment, will look into latex issue.

rjain1310 1/27/2026||

Privacy- and security-first approach compared to Clawdbot is a very important aspect. Will definitely give a try.

sergiotapia 1/26/2026||

It's all hype and twitter-driven development. BEWARE.

kristopolous 1/26/2026|

Baffling.

Isn't this just a basic completion loop with toolcalling hooked up to a universal chat gateway?

Isn't that a one shot chatgpt prompt?

(Yes it is: https://chatgpt.com/share/6976ca33-7bd8-8013-9b4f-2b417206d0...)

Why's everyone couch fainting over this?

shmoogy 1/26/2026||

It's good at making new skills for itself, and the ability to add to WhatsApp, telegram, and discord means sharing access to internal applications and not needing users to get onto VPN makes a great combination.

kristopolous 1/26/2026||

You're just telling me common features. Those are just normal things now

edmundsauto 1/27/2026||

What systems are making new skills for themselves? Not being snarky, I find this sort of self-teaching incredibly interesting but have only ever seen this approach