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Clawbot

Not Just Another Chatbot. A Personal AI Infrastructure.

Most AI assistants live in someone else's cloud, responding when asked. clawbot is different: it runs on infrastructure you control, executes tasks autonomously, and keeps your data where it belongs—with you. This is what personal AI looks like when you refuse to compromise on privacy or capability.

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GitHub Stars
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Community Forks
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Available Skills
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Platform Integrations

The Evolution From Passive to Proactive AI

Understanding why clawbot represents a fundamental shift in how we interact with artificial intelligence

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Generation 1: The Q&A Era

Traditional AI assistants like ChatGPT and Siri revolutionized how we access information—but they remained fundamentally reactive. You ask, they answer. They can't initiate contact, monitor your systems, or execute tasks while you're away. Every interaction requires your explicit request.

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Generation 2: The Cloud Dependency Trap

As AI capabilities expanded, so did their appetite for your data. Every conversation, every document, every workflow flows through corporate servers. You gained convenience but surrendered control. Your AI assistant knows everything about you—and so does the company hosting it.

Generation 3: The Autonomous Revolution

clawbot represents the next generation: AI that operates as your personal infrastructure. It runs on hardware you control, acts autonomously on your behalf, integrates deeply with your digital environment, and maintains conversation history across 15+ messaging platforms. This isn't an assistant that waits—it's one that anticipates, monitors, and executes.

See clawbot in Action

Video guides covering installation, configuration, and advanced automation workflows

Capabilities That Redefine Personal AI

Built on principles of autonomy, privacy, and genuine utility—not marketing buzzwords

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Data Sovereignty by Design

Every conversation, file, and workflow stays on infrastructure you own. No corporate servers mining your interactions. No surprise terms-of-service changes. Your AI, your rules, your hardware.

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Genuine Task Execution

Unlike chatbots that merely suggest actions, clawbot directly manipulates your system: executing shell commands, writing code, controlling browsers, accessing cameras, and utilizing location services. If Node.js can do it, clawbot can orchestrate it.

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Unified Multi-Platform Presence

Communicate with your AI through WhatsApp during commutes, Telegram at your desk, Discord with your team, or Slack at work—with seamless conversation continuity. Your AI lives where you already communicate.

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Extensible Skills Ecosystem

The ClawdHub marketplace hosts 565+ community-developed skills following the AgentSkills open standard. Install pre-built workflows or develop custom integrations that precisely match your unique requirements.

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Model-Agnostic Architecture

Choose your intelligence backbone: Anthropic's Claude for nuanced reasoning, OpenAI's GPT for versatility, or completely free local models via Ollama. Switch providers without reconfiguring your entire setup.

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Defense-Grade Security

Sandboxed execution environments, granular permission controls, and user-defined trust boundaries ensure automation runs safely. 84,000+ developers have audited the open-source codebase—transparency is our security model.

Real Automation for Real Work

What becomes possible when your AI can genuinely act instead of merely advise

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Intelligent Inbox

Automatically categorize emails, draft context-aware responses, and purge promotional clutter

Temporal Orchestration

Schedule meetings by parsing natural language, set conditional reminders, coordinate across timezones

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Smart Environment

Integrate with Home Assistant to control IoT devices through conversational commands

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DevOps Automation

Review pull requests, manage deployments, monitor system health, troubleshoot production issues

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Data Analysis

Process spreadsheets, generate visual reports, extract insights from unstructured data sources

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Travel Management

Automated flight check-ins, itinerary organization, real-time travel alert monitoring

Explore Detailed Use Cases →

Architecture for Developers Who Care

A technical foundation designed for extensibility, transparency, and developer autonomy

Core Architecture

  • Gateway-centric control plane
  • Distributed node system for multi-device access
  • WebSocket-based real-time communication
  • Markdown-backed persistent memory

Technology Foundation

  • Node.js 22+ runtime environment
  • TypeScript for type-safe development
  • Docker containerization support
  • Tailscale for secure remote access

AI Model Compatibility

  • Anthropic Claude (all variants)
  • OpenAI GPT-4 and successors
  • Ollama for local model inference
  • LM Studio integration layer

Platform Integration

  • WhatsApp via Baileys protocol
  • Telegram through grammY framework
  • Discord, Slack, iMessage native support
  • Signal, Matrix, Mattermost, 15+ total

How clawbot Orchestrates Intelligence

A simplified view of how messages flow through your personal AI infrastructure

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You
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Messaging App
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Gateway Hub
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AI Model
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System Action
🔒 Local Processing
Streaming Responses
🔧 Tool Integration
🔄 Cross-Channel Sync

Built by Engineers, For Engineers

Open-source software backed by proven technical leadership and an active global community

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Peter Steinberger

Founder & Lead Developer

Peter previously founded PSPDFKit, a PDF technology company trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises globally. After successfully exiting, he channeled 15+ years of software engineering experience into building clawbot—a vision for AI that prioritizes user autonomy, privacy sovereignty, and genuine capability over marketing hyperbole.

  • Architected enterprise-grade developer tools serving millions of users
  • Deep expertise in cross-platform development (macOS, iOS, Linux, Web)
  • Committed to open-source principles and community-driven development
  • Advocates for user privacy and data sovereignty in the AI era
Read Peter's Full Story
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Get Started in Minutes

Download the latest stable release for macOS or deploy via Docker on any platform

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macOS Installer

DMG • 17.1 MB

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ZIP Archive

ZIP • 21.3 MB

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Linux and Windows users: Deploy via Docker or WSL2. See installation guide →

Questions From the Community

Answers to common concerns about privacy, capability, and getting started

Unlike cloud-based AI that only responds to questions, clawbot runs on your own infrastructure and can actively execute tasks on your behalf—managing files, controlling applications, integrating with your services, and operating autonomously in the background. You own your data completely.

clawbot itself is 100% free and open-source under MIT License. You only pay for the AI model API you choose (Claude, GPT-4) or run completely free local models via Ollama. There are no subscriptions, no feature gates, no vendor lock-in.

clawbot executes entirely on hardware you control. Your conversations, documents, and data never touch third-party servers unless you explicitly configure external AI APIs. Unlike cloud AI services, there's no company mining your interactions for training data.

clawbot can execute shell commands, read and write files, control your web browser, monitor system resources, integrate with 50+ services, send you proactive notifications, and run scheduled tasks—all while you're offline. It's an AI that genuinely acts, not just advises.

clawbot runs natively on macOS and Linux. Windows users can deploy via Docker or WSL2. You can also host it on any cloud VM (AWS, DigitalOcean, Hetzner) for remote access from any device.

Yes! clawbot integrates seamlessly with WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, Matrix, and 15+ other platforms. Talk to your AI assistant through apps you already use daily, with unified conversation history across all channels.

For Mac users, it's as simple as downloading a .dmg file and following a guided setup wizard. Linux and Docker deployments require basic command-line familiarity. Most users complete setup in under 30 minutes.

clawbot features sandboxed execution, configurable permission controls, and user-defined trust boundaries. You decide exactly what it can and cannot do. All code is open-source and auditable—84,000+ developers have reviewed it.

Join the active Discord community, explore the GitHub repository with 84,000+ stars, or browse comprehensive documentation at docs.clawd.bot. The community is welcoming to both beginners and advanced users.

Join the Personal AI Movement

84,000+ developers are building the future of autonomous, privacy-first artificial intelligence. Be part of it.