I am having so much fun chatting to Spidey (I named my clawdbot this) via WhatsApp. My current simple setup is that I could ask Spidey to create calendar schedule, create tasks in Things and when I want to write a note to myself, to create an entry in Obsidian and Quick Scrap Note (using url: scrapnote://add?text=*** ) This really feels like having a personal assistant in my pocket.
I only allow clawd access to certain folders, so I have to create an Obsidian vault in that folder (apart from my normal vaults). I am also limiting it to not search/access articles in the internet (to prevent prompt injection). Trying my best to secure it… and so far, it has been a blast.
I will slowly add new capabilities - maybe one day to read and summarize email of the morning… so far I didn’t want to give it access to Mails first. Let’s see.
I also have Clawdbot connected to WhatsApp. The neatest thing so far has been to open a PDF Manual stored in DevonThink on a Mac Studio on an Android phone. Just a simple “Open a PDF in DevonThink about a Marsh Preamp on this device” sent as a WhatsApp message to Clawdbot transferred the PDF to the phone.
I added this yesterday, on my Mac Mini M4 on “root”.
It works great and does basically whatever I want, feels like the most personal assistant I have seen from AI yet.
Knows my calendar, my todos in Things and Todoist, writes email drafts for me, created some MCP servers, reviewed and moved my whole Home Assistant config, sends automed “morning messages” to me.
Really cool concept, but og my god it burns through tokens
It spent over $100 in 5-6h yesterday when using Opus 4.5.
Have downgraded to a Minimax plan now, but apparently that limits its skillset.
I also have some concerns over the security, and long-term value, so thinking about trying to move some of this to a more general Claude Code setup instead.
Yeah I balked at the volume of tokens that guy in the article above said he used. Assuming a 50:50 split of input & output tokens, it equates to nearly £2800…
I also think that the gap between things I prefer to just ask Claude to do as needed and the stuff on my server that is wholly automated anyway is quite slim. But as always with these tools, all it takes is one helpful use case and it can be worth having.
This new app called ClawdBot looks very interesting – I thought I would pass it on. Of course you have to think about security since it has full access to your computer.
Some people are putting it on a separate computer (Mac Mini…) for safety reasons. It is very new and I’m sure will be updated quite a bit.
Probably a question for your co-host (if he even wants to be asked anything legal), but many years ago in my corporate joby-job, I remember the company lawyer lecturing us that we couldn’t choose nice or bad violators.
There was some legal thing that if we didn’t go after every copyright/potential IP violator, it created a loophole that could be used to try and discredit our entire IP claim?
One more article about the risks of installing Moltbot:
Deploying Moltbot safely requires knowledge and diligence, but the key is to isolate the AI instance in a virtual machine and configure firewall rules for internet access, rather than running it directly on the host OS with root access.
