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Today’s newsletter is about Clawdbot, which literally just changed it’s name to Moltbot a few hours ago. It changed name because Anthropic (the company behind Claude) asked them to.

Yep, Clawdbot(Moltbot) is actually nothing to do with Claude, so maybe the name change was a good thing.

Clawdbot is an open-source AI assistant that runs on your computer and connects to your messaging apps. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude in a browser, it can actually execute tasks on your computer, reading your email, managing your calendar, running commands, and handling workflows automatically.

Created by Peter Steinberger, founder of PSPDFKit, it's designed to work like a persistent digital employee rather than a conversational chatbot.

Clawdbot runs as a background service on Mac, Linux, or Windows (via WSL). You connect it to messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, or Telegram, then interact with it through normal chat messages.

The system uses "skills" - modular plugins that give the AI specific capabilities:

When you send a message, the AI processes your request using models like Claude or GPT, determines what actions to take, executes them through the appropriate skills, and reports back with results.

Email Management: The AI reads incoming messages, drafts replies, schedules meetings, and manages follow-ups. Users report reducing daily email time from hours to minutes.

Calendar Coordination: It handles scheduling conflicts, finds meeting times across multiple calendars, and sends appropriate invitations and reminders.

Research and Briefings: Before meetings, it researches attendees, pulls relevant information, and creates briefing documents automatically.

Monitoring and Alerts: It watches RSS feeds, flight statuses, important email threads, or system metrics, then proactively notifies you when something needs attention.

Workflow Automation: Complex multi-step processes like invoice processing, report generation, or data collection can run automatically with minimal oversight.

Requirements:

Installation Process:

The setup takes 30-60 minutes for developers familiar with CLI tools. Non-technical users may find it challenging.

The software is free (MIT license), but you pay for underlying AI model usage. Typical costs:

Costs scale with usage frequency and task complexity, since agentic workflows require many API calls.

Running Clawdbot involves significant security considerations:

What It Can Access: Full shell access, file system, email, calendars, and any services you configure through skills.

Risk Mitigation: Many users run it on dedicated machines or VMs to isolate potential damage from prompt injection attacks or bugs.

Best Practices: Start with limited permissions, monitor activity logs, and gradually expand access as you build trust with the system.

For Developers: Code deployment monitoring, automated testing reports, GitHub issue management, and development environment maintenance.

For Business Users: Email triage and response, meeting preparation, expense report processing, and customer inquiry routing.

For Personal Productivity: Travel management, bill tracking, appointment scheduling, and routine task automation.

Recommended Approach:

Essential Skills to Enable First:

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