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It's an AI agent with a folder full of markdown files it can edit itself. It has tools to edit files and run shell commands. Its folder ("workspace") contains a mix of arbitrary files you work on together, and special system files that affect the bot's behavior: SOUL.md, HEARTBEAT.md, and the memory/ folder. You DM it over Signal or Telegram and have it manage these files. SOUL.md affects its personality. HEARTBEAT.md is used every 30 minutes by the Node.js process to spawn a new temporary AI session, enabling it to do things all day long. To avoid repeating work, it stores work it already did in its memory/ folder. tl;dr it's a living AI agent. You give it access to a full computer, so it's a living AI agent with a full computer system just for itself. This has been possible for over 1 year now already, and many of us have thought about it, but I think nobody did it because it sounds like a very bad idea to just like AI roam free like that with no security guardrails. But obviously it was inevitable.
↩ replying to Alex Gleason
Thank you, Alex. Let me pose a hypothetical: I have a massive Obsidian vault (All .md files as that's Obsidian's native file type). It contains all of the transcripts from my podcast episodes, notes on books I've read, daily journaling etc. etc. etc. - about 1.5 Gb in size. If I set up Clawdbot and the only file it has is that one Obsidian vault I would be able, via Telegram, to query that vault and the bot might uncover connections between items (ideas, etc.) I never myself would have uncovered due to the sheer size of that vault?