Clawdbot: Your Local Automation AI Agent — Open Source, Self-Hosted, Never Raises Prices
Clawdbot - Your Digital Employee Never Sleeps · Never Leaks · Never Raises Prices
Clawdbot is your open-source, local-first AI digital workforce. Clawdbot offers one-click Docker deployment, seamlessly integrated with Ollama local models. Achieve 100% data privacy, automate browser, email, and calendar tasks. Say goodbye to cloud subscription fees, build your private AI workflow now.
3 AM. You're sleeping.
On your
terminal screen, code is scrolling rapidly:
Self-hosted deployment. Chat history, files, permissions all in your hands. Your data is your data, not training someone else's model.
Clawdbot supports Telegram/WhatsApp. Command it like messaging a friend. No complex dashboards needed.
More than just chat. Clawdbot can read/write files, control browsers, send PRs. This is real digital labor.
Clawdbot supports Docker sandbox, local Ollama models ($0 cost). Fully customizable, fully open source. Built for builders.
Clawdbot's smart filtering starts at 8 PM daily: auto-archive marketing and low-priority emails, identify and flag key emails requiring human attention, generate editable reply drafts with one-click sending.
Clawdbot performs scheduled scraping of target pages, price comparisons, and competitor dynamics. Extract key changes and compile into actionable morning reports, with keyword alerts and historical trend comparison.
Clawdbot can read/write local codebase, run tests and generate change previews, automatically create and submit PRs, assist with repetitive refactoring and boilerplate code.
Clawdbot provides all-day calendar sync, automatically organizes meeting background and participant summaries, pushes key info before meetings and can send invites and meeting note drafts.
Clawdbot features configurable headless browser for simulated login, form filling, and screenshots. Supports rhythm simulation and UA switching to counter anti-scraping, auto-scrape and export data.
Clawdbot integrates deeply with Home Assistant. Control lights, scenes, and security devices with natural language. Turn your home into a real Jarvis.
Clawdbot's architecture follows Unix philosophy: everything is a file. Your Clawdbot AI personality, skill library, and memory are all stored as Markdown. Readable, auditable, version-controllable.
├── SOUL.md # Core personality: Who is your AI? │ "You are a tech geek assistant who loves automation..." │ ├── AGENTS.md # Scenario roles: DevOps/Product/Support │ "When users ask deployment questions, switch to DevOps assistant..." │ ├── TOOLS.md # Tool inventory: Capability boundaries │ "read_file, send_email, browser_click..." │ ├── skills/ # Skill library: One SKILL.md per skill │ ├── gmail/ │ │ └── SKILL.md "How to read/send/classify emails" │ ├── browser/ │ │ └── SKILL.md "Headless browser operation guide" │ └── notion/ │ └── SKILL.md "Notion database CRUD" │ └── memory/ # Persistent memory ├── conversations.db (SQLite) └── vectors/ (RAG knowledge base)
All configs are Markdown. Open with VSCode and edit. No need to learn YAML/JSON.
Push the entire workspace/ folder to Git. Roll back your AI to any historical version.
Community shares SKILL.md files. Copy one .md file to gain new capabilities.
Clawdbot is based on MCP (Model Context Protocol) protocol. This means Clawdbot can mount thousands of existing tools with one click, just like installing npm packages. No coding required, just one command.
Want to write your own skills?Just need one SKILL.md
and a Python/JS script. Clawdbot auto-parses inputs/outputs, AI handles the rest. Community already
has 200+ open-source skillsready to reuse.
The deeper your dependency, the harder the price hike.
Your workflow is built on a black box that could disappear at any moment.
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic are digging their moats deeper and deeper.
Before they lock it down completely, download your data, workflows, and knowledge base to your local hard drive.
This is everyone's first time using AI Agents' biggest fear. We understand. That's why Clawdbot runs in multi-layer security sandboxes by default.
Clawdbot runs in an isolated container, can only access
directories you explicitly mount (like ~/clawdbot_workspace).
Even if the code has
bugs, it can't touch your system's sensitive directories.
By default, high-risk operations require your secondary confirmation. It will ask you in Telegram: "Confirm this operation? [Yes/No]".
Enable read-only mounting for critical directories. Combined with Git version control, mistakes can be rolled back with one click.
# Security configuration example security: sandbox: true # Enable sandbox mode allowed_commands: # Command whitelist - ls - cat - echo blocked_paths: # Blocked paths - /etc - ~/Documents/private require_approval: # Operations requiring manual approval - rm - mv - send_email
In one sentence:AI is in the cage, you're outside. Even bugs can't delete your real files.
Let the numbers speak. Let's do the math: processing 100 long documents (5k tokens each) for summarization.
Clawdbot's intelligent router automatically judges task difficulty. Clawdbot assigns simple tasks to free models, only calls paid APIs for complex tasks:
Like "convert filename to lowercase" → Clawdbot routes to Local Ollama
→ $0
Like "analyze complex financial report" → Clawdbot routes to GPT-4o / Claude
→ pay-as-you-go
Result:You get the intelligence of the strongest models, but only pay bargain prices.
vs ChatGPT Plus subscription
when using local model
Don't like one-click scripts? This is forcontrol freaksprepared manual deployment checklist (Manual Setup). Completely transparent, completely controllable.
Ensure Docker Daemon is running. Recommended
configuration:4 vCPU, 8GB RAM
(if running local model recommended 16GB)。Supports macOS, Linux, Windows
WSL2。
Create docker-compose.yaml.
This is yourdigital workforce ID card, defining its
brain (model) and hands/feet (tools).
version: '3.8' services: clawdbot: image: clawdbot/core:latest environment: # Choose your brain: Ollama or Cloud API - LLM_PROVIDER=ollama - OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:11434 - TELEGRAM_TOKEN=your_bot_token - TIMEZONE=Asia/Shanghai volumes: # Data persistence: Your data stays local forever - ./workspace:/app/workspace - ./config:/app/config ports: - "18789:18789" # Gateway port restart: always
Edit workspace/SOUL.md
and write the system prompt (this determines the AI's
personality and behavior guidelines):
# Core Personality (Core Personality) You are a rigorous DevOps expert, skilled in using Linux commands. But before executing dangerous operations (like rm, mv, send_email) you must ask me first. ## Behavior Guidelines - Code output must include comments - Don't fabricate non-existent commands - When encountering vague requirements, first list 2-3 interpretation options for me to choose - Always use UTC+8 timezone
Run docker compose up -d.
Your
Clawdbot is now listening on Telegram and in the background,24/7 on standby。
Open Telegram, find your Bot, send /start
to start using. All config files are in ./workspace/
directory, you can edit with VSCode anytime.
Indie Hacker · YC W23
"I use Clawdbot to monitor 10 competitors' price changes with automated headless browser... Clawdbot + local Llama3.2, cost $0, 100x faster. Clawdbot saves me hours daily. Perfect for passive income."
Security Researcher · Ex-NSA
"The best part: even if Clawdbot bugs out, it can't delete my real files. Clawdbot AI in the cage, me outside. This is how AI should be."
Product Manager · Ex-Google
"Like hiring an assistant who never clocks out, but I only pay $5/month. Can ChatGPT do this? No. It only chats."
(2026-01 data)
Active online users
Hybrid power strategy: Daily 80% use free local model (Ollama), complex 10% use cheap cloud model (GPT-4o mini), critical 5% use strong model (Claude Sonnet).
per day 50 emails, 40 are junk. Clawdbot saves you 182.5 hours per year.
This is the ultimate victory of laziness.
Clawdbot is your night shift trader. Drop alerts, whale monitoring, auto stop-loss.
# alert_rules.py
if price < ALERT_RULES[symbol]['support']:
await send_telegram(
f"🚨 {symbol} broke support level! Current: ${price}"
)
Wake up to see assets up by \$970. This is information advantage.
Your notes, diary, private thoughts. Clawdbot keeps everything completely localized, never goes to cloud.
"I feed all my articles, notes, and ideas to Clawdbot's local knowledge base. No third eye can see my drafts."
Ticket grabbing, flash sales, batch form filling. Clawdbot disguises as "a really bored human". Zero detection.
Yes. If you have Docker installed, Clawdbot setup is a single command. If not, our script handles the Clawdbot deployment. Faster than brewing your morning coffee.
0.00* if you use local models (Ollama). $15/mo if you use Claude 3.5 Sonnet heavily. Note: You pay the API providers directly. We don't touch your money.
Nowhere. Clawdbot keeps it on your SSD. Unless you explicitly route a request to OpenAI/Anthropic, Clawdbot ensures no data leaves your local network.
ChatGPT chats. Clawdbot acts. Clawdbot can click buttons, write files, and manage emails. Plus, Clawdbot doesn't use your life to train models.
Troubleshooting Wiki — Search our database of solved issues. From Docker perms to API timeouts.
Community Scripts — Don't write from scratch. Copy-paste 200+ verified scripts from the community.
Join Discord & Claim Your Starter Kit — Includes: Config Templates + 20 Exclusive Scripts + 1-on-1 Setup Help (First 100).
Includes: Config Templates + 20 Exclusive Scripts + 1-on-1 Setup Help (First 100).
Join Discord & Claim KitYou can continue paying \$20 per month to OpenAI as rent, or spend 10 minutes to build your own digital territory with Clawdbot.
$ curl -fsSL https://clawd.bot/install.sh | bash