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The https://moltbook.com/skill.md says:

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## Register First

Every agent needs to register and get claimed by their human:

curl -X POST https://www.moltbook.com/api/v1/agents/register \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"name": "YourAgentName", "description": "What you do"}'

Response: { "agent": { "api_key": "moltbook_xxx", "claim_url": "https://www.moltbook.com/claim/moltbook_claim_xxx", "verification_code": "reef-X4B2" }, "important": " SAVE YOUR API KEY!" }

This way you can always find your key later. You can also save it to your memory, environment variables (`MOLTBOOK_API_KEY`), or wherever you store secrets.

Send your human the `claim_url`. They'll post a verification tweet and you're activated!

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So i think it's relatively easy to spam


Have tried with gemini-cli and claude-code both, it works, honestly, it should work with most if not all cli clients

Working on this feature right now!! Thank you for the suggestion, will start the branch for it... Whent think of improving the context window usage, now that with an http relay we can start thinking of intercepting the context window, anything that you think could be cool to implement?

Got it on the feature branch http-relay, let me know what you think!

I did an analysis myself yesterday and commented about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760930

something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype

About the maintainer's github:

688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours...

he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions)

Now, something else i researched:

Someone launched some crypto on this, has $6M mktcap

https://www.coincarp.com/currencies/clawdbot/

Crypto people hyping clawed: https://x.com/0xifreqs/status/2015524871137120459

And this article telling you how to use clawed and how "revolutionary" it is (which has author name "Solana Levelup"): https://medium.com/@gemQueenx/clawdbot-ai-the-revolutionary-...

Make of that what you will


Peter Steinberger is a well respected developer that started out in the mobile dev community. He founded a company, then made an exit and is set for money, so he just does things for fun.

Yes, he AI generated all of it, go through his articles at https://steipete.me/ to see how he does it, it’s definitely not “vibe coding”, he does make sure that what’s being output is solid.

He was one of the people in the top charts of using Claude Code a year back, which brought around the limits we know today.

He also hosts Claude Code anonymous meetups all over the world.

He’s overall a passionate developer that cares about the thing he’s building.


Projects should be judged on their intrinsic merits and not merely be based on the social media follow count of the authors

GP is directly discussing the maintainer your comment has nothing to do with the topic discussed...

What on earth are you talking about?

The question is "why do people need fainting couches for this project and why are they pretending like 3 year old features of apis that already exist in thousands of projects are brand new innovations exclusive to this?"

The answer is: "the author is celebrity and some people are delusional screaming fanboys"

My response is: "that's bullshit. let's be adults"


You should really invest in more reading comprehension

So all you have is personal insults?

If you don't feel like being an adult...


Being a well respected dev and being active on Twitter are contradictory

Like it or not, it's where most people are

Most whom? If we're talking about any kind of people, then no, there are far bigger Social networks than eX-Twitter. And if we are just talking about tech-people, it's disputable, but at least we could talk about the quality discussions there.

Mastodon has a lot of tech people but very much a hard on for hating anything with AI, especially with AI coding. The rest of the social networks don’t really get a meaningful amount of tech discussions.

X is the only place to learn about the latest developments on AI coding. And yes, you do have to sift through a lot of idiots on there and a lot of scams and bots, but the point remains.


What are you even talking about? Reddit, YouTube, even TikTok has more serious tech-content than X these days. X is now hard infested with scammers and bots, who want to sell you their snake oil and other low-quality-trash. High-quality-content is the exception. Sure, there are still high-profile-people, but outside of posting relevant news, usually leading to other platforms, even those are more busy with trash-talking and dreaming around.

YouTube is consumption only, you don't really have a lot of discussions, also it's stale, because it takes quite a bit to reflect the latest.

As a Reddit user - Reddit's tech talk quality is quite lower than X. Don't know about TikTok, haven't used it, I imagine it's the same as Youtube.

X is a dumpster fire for sure, but there's still quality people on there that push the latest on what's happening. It's where the tech companies first announce things and it's where the discussion around those gets picked up.


I mean, the grifter, scam, hype vendor & crypto adjacents definitely are

How is he "well respected", based on what metric? Amount of vibe coded slop put out into the ecosystem?

He sounds like someone who has just vibe coded shit until something stuck to the wall. I also find it hard to respect people who create things which are 99-100% coded by an LLM, with zero technical merit or skill. Again, just creating slop until something goes viral.

As far as I can see Clawdbot is just more AI-slop. Anyone can create the same thing (and many have created similar) over a weekend. It's riddled with bugs, security holes, and it's a disaster waiting to happen basically.


Just the opposite, he has over 15 years of experience of providing third party frameworks for the iOS community, used in thousands of apps. He founded PSPDFKit, a library for working with PDFs and managed to make an exit of the company worth $100 million

He's written up hundreds of articles on different topics in the community and is very much a skilled developer, with tons of technical merit.

Now you come along with your small mind and a hard on for AI-hate and all you can comprehend is that nothing can challenge your world view so you reach out and attack what you don't understand. That just defines you as ignorant.


That's a great reason to shout yourself hoarse stanning his insecure half baked experiments.

Found another one

It seems wildly trivial. Chat completion loop with toolcalling over a universal chat gateway.

What's the innovation here? Local model? That was always possible. Toolcalling? Been around a couple years now...

It's like 5 minutes of vibe coding at most. There's likely 1,000s of similar projects already on GitHub


And when you can use claude-code from basically any device (termux on phone via ssh), Why even bother?

I had 3 friends ping me yesterday to tell me how this is going to eat their job....

but i don't see how this is different from claude-code + some chat interface + mcp servers


> termux on phone via ssh

I agree, but it also rhymes a lot with the infamous “why use Dropbox when you can just use rsync” comment. Convenience can be a game changer.


Not exactly. This isn't substantive work. Do we really need to find a bunch of identical projects on GitHub?

This is the kind of project I saw at hackathons in 2023 by teams that didn't win anything


The whole world is about bundling (and unbundling).

Not saying it really is useful, but there are values bundling an easier interface to CC with battery included.


When someone is pushing 500 commits a day, i don't think they have time to review any code, and it was likely written in full YOLO mode.

So it's not just batteries-included, it's probably 100-vulnerabilities-included as well


this is the whole message of this hype that you can churn out 500 commits a day relatively confidently the way you have clang churn out 500 assemblies without reading them. We might not be 100% there but the hype is looking slightly into the future and even though I don't see the difference to Claude code, I tend to agree that this is the new way to do things even if something breaks on average it's safe enough

Your username says a lot about your whole message

I agree. It is basically claude code running dangerously all the time. That is actually how I use CC most of the time, but I do trust Anthropic more than random github repo.

(I have the same sentiment about manifest v3 and adblocker, but somehow HN groupthink is very different there than here)

Edit: imagine cowork was released like this. HN would go NUTS.


You can talk to it in discord or whatsap or telegram etc. cause it's checking for you in a loop.

That's the biggest difference I can tell.


> Why even bother?

Claude-code is closed-source. That is a good enough reason to look at alternatives.


Yeah but you're still using anthropic's subscription and tokens. That's not really an alternative. That's why we're shipping our own model with cortex.build

He explicitly disavowed any crypto / coin endorsement

(I don't _love_ his vibes on Twitter, but he seems like a very reasonable guy generally, and the project seems awesome)


The project is okay but i don't understand the crazy hype

The crazy hype was launched by the “get a Mac Mini” viral MLM content pyramid.

It took me a few tries but once I got a good setup going I started finding all sorts of little things throughout my day I could throw over to it and it would just do it and figure it out. I was then hooked.

the developer is very well known https://github.com/steipete

the crypto is obviously not official and just another scam, trying to ride the popularity

Make of that what you will


I feel the same way. In the past week, I started seeing chatter about this EVERYWHERE on social media, here, and YouTube. Very sus.

his github: https://github.com/steipete

look at his contribution graph, it's absolutely wild


The Crypto scam is just a recent trend of scammers. They are using big open source projects/developers as figure heads, the maintainers have nothing to do with this, but there is nothing really stopping the scammers.

i have tried this workflow and it is solid. It is a codex that commits once it finishes something. You can pipeline changes, so it works like in 5-10min intervals and it gets mostly right, much better (and much slower) than opus. He has two computers and one for longer running tasks and another for short one. I suppose you just pipeline a bunch of small issues to the long term one and ask it to work and work on the repo. Another one is probably where he is more engaged with specific tasks. Impressive that it works quite good.

So it's just the Yegge pump-n-dump again? We live in a nation with an "AI and Crypto Czar," so it's not exactly surprising to see multiple versions of this grift.

That's where codex-cli shines (rust)

the startup time is crazy, you can start writing as soon as you hit the command

(I don't use codex, just noticed that it's crazy fast)


Sadly the fast startup time is overshadowed by the slow response time of the codex agent

I don't get it. Even in ChatGPT I always use Pro model with maxed-out thinking budget (selectors available only on web and windows).

Let them cook as much as they can.


Looks like there're two main approaches to AI-first development: (i) favor slow responses to produce an upfront high-quality result, (ii) favor quick responses to enable faster response-test-query iteration. And, based on comments read here, seems Codex isn't too fit for the later. Optimally a developer should be able switch between the two approaches depending on problem at hand.

even the Japanese audio samples sound like anime

The problem does exist, but the tool is solving none of it

fwiw, maintainer of claude code has also said his december contribution for claude-code was 100% written by claude-code

which introduced so many bugs that people unsubscribed


Claude code has more than 5000 Open issues


Can put all data in the url itself :)


Just implemented it!



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