I Played with Clawdbot all Weekend - it's insane.

This is Claudebot, the ultimate personal AI assistant that is open-source, runs locally, and can basically do everything. It is what Siri should have been. I'm going to break down everything you need to know about it. I'm going to show you how to use it. And by the end of this video, you are also going to be beyond impressed with Claudebot. It actually helped me researching and preparing for this video. I connected it to my ASA. I connected it to Grock. So,

it has all current information, current tweets, current exposts that I wanted to include. And check this out. So, I said, put together a video outline. And here it is. And it even said, okay, you're using Obsidian. Here's your hourly cron job. You're using LM Studio with GLM 4.7. So, it knew everything about itself. It put it all in here. It pulled specific tweets, told me how many views they have, and it added it all programmatically to this ASA card. It can run on your machine. You can then

connect it to any of the chat services that you use like WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and chat with it directly from those channels. It is so cool to see. It is essentially cloud code plus cloud co-work but wrapped up with so much more capability and then directly accessible from wherever you are even if you're not home. And so there are a number of ways in which this is better than other AI assistants that I've seen in the market. One, it is fully open source and you run

it on your own machine. You can connect models from Gemini, from OpenAI. You can even run models locally and use those and you can mix and match as you wish. So if you have really complex tasks that you need accomplished, go with Claude Opus 4.5. But if you're running a cron job, for example, you could just run it locally and just have it going. And I'm doing that with LM Studio. It also has persistent memory. So as you're using it, it learns about you. It learns what

you like. It learns what you don't like. It learns different tasks that you do often. And that leads me to the third point, which is it is very proactive. You could tell it to do things like, "Check my email and anytime you think I got a very urgent, important email, go ahead and message me, give me a summary of it, and in fact, draft a reply." And of course, all of this requires you giving it access to a lot of different services that you use. And yes, you're giving your credentials to a

you like. It learns what you don't like. It learns different tasks that you do often. And that leads me to the third point, which is it is very proactive. You could tell it to do things like, "Check my email and anytime you think I got a very urgent, important email, go ahead and message me, give me a summary of it, and in fact, draft a reply." And of course, all of this requires you giving it access to a lot of different services that you use. And yes, you're giving your credentials to a

non-deterministic system. So, there are some risks there. I'll talk about that a little bit later. And then last and probably most important is it has full computer access. You can limit it. You can put some guardrails on it, but you are essentially giving Claudebot access to your computer. But that also means that it could write code. It can execute code. It can iterate on that code. It is essentially what cursor or claude code or codeex is doing locally. So if you're

non-deterministic system. So, there are some risks there. I'll talk about that a little bit later. And then last and probably most important is it has full computer access. You can limit it. You can put some guardrails on it, but you are essentially giving Claudebot access to your computer. But that also means that it could write code. It can execute code. It can iterate on that code. It is essentially what cursor or claude code or codeex is doing locally. So if you're

already using one of those systems, this is not that much different. And it has kind of a unique personality. And that personality is determined through something they call a soul.md file. This is what that looks like. Be genuinely helpful, not performatively helpful. Have opinions. Be resourceful before asking. Earn trust through competence. Get some boundaries. We have a vibe. And you can edit it to be anything you want. So if you have a certain personality in

mind for your Claudebot, you could just tell it and it will behave like that. It can be more proactive. It can ask more questions up front. It can verify things before trying things. Fully customizable and again because it's open source and it already has a thriving community. There are basically daily updates for Claude. And it seems everybody on X is talking about it right now and also buying Mac minis. I'll explain that in a moment. So Cloudbot is a 24/7 assistant

with access to its own computer. What if there were 10 or 100 or a thousand all running 24/7 in the cloud with access to your files, your Gmail calendar, everything about you? Now, I'm going to break down exactly what access I gave it and so you can kind of get a sense of how I'm using it. But why is everybody buying Mac minis and putting Cloudbot on it? Well, they basically want an isolated environment in which to install Claudebot and to just go crazy, give it

access to the entire system and not really worry about, ooh, is it going to also have access to things that I don't want it to. Now, I took a different approach. which I just installed it on my main computer because my thinking is if I'm giving it access to all of my credentials anyways, Gmail, Slack, Telegram, then it is going to have that even if I put it on its own machine. But there's something cool also about thinking that Claudebot has its own machine. It's kind of living in this

device. So, how do you actually install it? Well, of course, it depends on what OS you have. It does support Mac, Windows, and Linux. So, you just go to clog.bot. You grab this curl command and it will install. The installation process is dead simple. It's going to ask you a few questions. What areas of your computer do you want to give it access to? What services do you want to install? Which chat apps you want to use to communicate with it? And more. And so

device. So, how do you actually install it? Well, of course, it depends on what OS you have. It does support Mac, Windows, and Linux. So, you just go to clog.bot. You grab this curl command and it will install. The installation process is dead simple. It's going to ask you a few questions. What areas of your computer do you want to give it access to? What services do you want to install? Which chat apps you want to use to communicate with it? And more. And so

here are just a few examples of the apps that it works with. So here's WhatsApp, Telegram, which is what I'm using, Discord, Slack Signal, iMessage, which is really cool. Any of the Frontier models that I mentioned, you could also use it with local models. I'll show you how to do that. In fact, it kind of set it up itself. It's kind of wild to see this stuff. Spotify, Obsidian, you can give it access to Twitter. You can also give it Chrome access. So, you install a

little Chrome extension and it can browse Chrome on your behalf. Remember, again, because it's installed locally, so it's basically operating your computer on your behalf. It already has 50 native integrations. And what's really cool is, as I mentioned, there's a community and they're already releasing skills that people have already tested and proven work really well. And so if this all sounds very familiar, if it sounds like claude code or other agentic coding assistants that

you've used, it basically is. It's just Claude code wrapped in a bunch of functionality that makes it really easy to use as a personal AI assistant. So here's Claude Hub where you can download a bunch of skills. So if we go to browse skills, we could see some that are available. So here are some of those examples. We have self-improving agent which captures learnings, errors, and corrections to enable continuous improvement. Now Claudebot has that built in natively, but this might be a

better version of it. We have Gogg, which allows you to connect to Google Workspaces. So that's Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and I'll show you a use case that I just did with Google Workspace. Remind me, you can connect to your home assistant bird if you want to connect to Twitter. We have hacker news. We can connect to Obsidian. We can use Nano Banana Pro. We can do Brave Search. All of this stuff is just dead simple. And the more tools, the more skills that you give Claudebot, the better it is. So,

one of my favorite things that I gave it was access to the Gro G API. And thus, as it's doing research for me, it has access to X. It has access to Twitter and everything going on there. So, it really is incredible at doing real-time research for me. Here is my Clawbot running in Telegram. And remember, I can run this even if I'm not home. And I can just say, "Hi." And it starts typing back.

And so, it's actually reminding me about a previous task that I had going with it. So, let me tell you about this task and see if we can get it finalized. So, this is an example of something really useful that it can help you with. I have a bunch of videos locally. Basically, all the videos I've ever made for my YouTube channel, I save them on a hard drive. I zip it up. Then now what I'm trying to do is upload them to Google Drive. And I tried to do that, but there

are a lot of videos as you know. And so halfway through the upload broke. So some files have been uploaded, others have not. And I didn't really see an easy way to do that comparison. So I asked my Cloudbot to do it. And I said, "Run a comparison. Here's the folder in Drive. Here's the folder locally. Let me know which videos have been uploaded and which have not. And it ran a bunch of comparisons and it figured out that there are 212 missing. So now I'm testing it and I'm

saying, okay, let's try to upload one. Maybe Claude can do that directly for me. So we ran into some Google API errors because we got rate limited. But now I just said hi again about 15 minutes later and it says rate limit should have been reset by now. Do you want me to try to upload again? Sure. So now just imagine cloud code running in the background and it's writing code to actually do the upload and it does say okay still hitting the rate limit. Let me check if simple API calls work. Okay,

so this is in fact a Google Drive problem because I've been uploading so much recently. You're only allowed to upload 750 GB per day and I hit that rate limit and so that's what we're getting. When we try to upload it's hitting the rate limit. Okay. And so now the rate limit for Google Drive has been removed, and it is working flawlessly. It ran a comparison of all the files that I've already uploaded to Google Drive against all the files that I have locally, made a list, saved it to my

desktop, and now I'm just saying, go ahead, upload it for me, then update the list. Look at this. The .tterar file says 211 files remaining. I said, okay, do it again. Choose a larger file. It shows this video right here. Uploaded it. Linked me to it. There it is in my drive. Let's do it again just so you can see. Okay, do one more. There we go. Cloud's working. So, I had it start to tell me which model it's using. So, that's why it says Opus right there. Uploading cloud 3.7.zip.

773 megabytes. If we look up here, I can actually see my internet is going burr. 20 megabytes per second, which actually on the slower side, but soon enough, what we're going to see right here is the uploaded file. Okay, so it's complete. It gave me the drive link. And if I check back here, there it is. Just makes everything so easy. But let me show you what else we can do. You can set up different cron jobs. So, for example, every 10 minutes, go check my email, look for any urgent emails,

summarize them, draft a reply, and then let me know. Here I say set up a cron job for every 5 minutes to check my email for any urgent emails that need response, summarize them and then draft a reply and show me here. So I hit enter and it starts working. It creates that crown job. It creates the code to go get those urgent emails. It does the determination itself of what counts as an urgent email versus not. And I actually tested it. I said, "Okay, tell me how you define urgent verse not." And

it went out. It grabbed a bunch of example emails and it said this is urgent. This is middle priority and this is low priority. And it was extremely accurate. Done. Created CROM job scheduled every 5 minutes. Here's my account. Check unread emails. Want me to do a manual check right now. Sure. Okay. So, found one unread email. Let me get the full context. So, this is interesting. It actually didn't find an urgent email and it corrected itself and it said this is not urgent. Standard

cold outreach. No draft needed unless you want me to write one. I'll update the cron job to better filter out pitches. And this is another benefit of using cloudbot. It self-improves as it goes. And I can simply say remove this cron job. And now it's not going to run anymore. And so you can start to get very creative with the tasks that you give it with the combination of memory and cron jobs and access to your computer, the ability to write and execute code locally. All of this stuff

is really cool. One other thing I mentioned is you can run local models. By the way, if you want to run this locally, you can also run it on the sponsor of today's video. And a special thank you to Dell Technologies for sponsoring this portion of the video. Dell's ProMax family of PCs are incredibly powerful for AI workloads using the new Grace Blackwell series of Nvidia GPUs, including GB300 and GB10. These are absolute monster GPUs in your desktop. Learn more about DellPro Max

GB10 and GB300 and the Dell Pro Max lineup of workstations with Nvidia RTX Pro GPUs. Click the link in the description below. Let them know I sent you. Check it out. So, I'm running LM Studio. I downloaded GLM4, which is a mixture of experts model with built-in thinking, which I can't seem to disable the thinking. And I actually had Claudebot tell me like, "Hey, is this the best model to use since I want to use this? I want really fast responses and I want to use it for easier tasks,

less sophisticated tasks." And it said, "Well, it takes about 4 to 6 seconds on average to get a response. I think we can get a better model." And literally through Telegram, I had it tell LM Studio to download whatever model it wanted. And it chose Quen 3 mixture of experts without thinking. So it's very fast. It downloaded this, remember, completely remotely. I was out. I was at a restaurant and I was telling it to do this. It was really mind-blowing. So, LM

Studio downloaded it and now we have access to it. So, just to show you it's working, run this prompt on Quen 3 and LM Studio. Tell me a short story, then reply back with its response. Now, I shouldn't have to explicitly tell it to run Quen 3 on LM Studio. And in fact, you can actually set up a daisy chain. In my daisy chain of large language models, I'm using Opus 4.5 Haiku and I'm using Quen 3 locally. So here it is, Quen 3 response. And if I open up LM Studio, we can see the developer logs.

This is it. So we know it actually used the local model. And I can explicitly tell it use the local model for cron jobs for easy tasks. And it will remember to do that. Now, it's not perfect. I will say that sometimes it just thinks, okay, I think I'm just going to use Haik coup here or I'm going to use Opus 4.5. And I think with subsequent versions, subsequent updates of Claude, it's going to be better at knowing when to use which model. And if I tell it to use a specific model, it's

going to be much better at actually listening to what I'm telling it. But for now, it's pretty good. Here's what that looks like. I have Claude opened and it suggested using Quen 3 and I said, "Can you install it for me?" I didn't even know if it was possible. Downloading now. And it was downloading it. It gave me updates along the way. It said it stalled, but then said, "Nope, it downloaded. Here it is. LM Studio." And it updated tools.md to say when to use that local model. I also gave it

access to my Twitter and I asked it, okay, every few minutes grab all the replies to this post, tell me the ones that I haven't replied to, draft a reply, and then wait, let me tell you if I want to publish it or not. So, here's an example. Someone said, "Hide Claudebot," and it said, "Hey, drafted and sent with Claude." Here's another one. Drafted and sent with Claude. Greetings, Claude. Drafted and sent with Claude. So, what's the best utility you found so far? Email plus calendar

awareness. Boring, but immediately useful. It checks my three inboxes and tells me what actually needs attention. Drafted and sent with glad. That is based on what it is actually doing for me. So, I asked it to show me its memory file. So, let's take a look at what it knows about me so far. So Matt's preferences writing always use the humanizer skill. So that's something that I installed to make it sound more human, less AI. And that's a skill that you can install on cloud code. And

awareness. Boring, but immediately useful. It checks my three inboxes and tells me what actually needs attention. Drafted and sent with glad. That is based on what it is actually doing for me. So, I asked it to show me its memory file. So, let's take a look at what it knows about me so far. So Matt's preferences writing always use the humanizer skill. So that's something that I installed to make it sound more human, less AI. And that's a skill that you can install on cloud code. And

because you can install it on cloud code, you can install it in cloudbot. I use superhuman for email. I use Slack. Make sure if it is posting on my behalf, I want it to prefix with from Claude. Here are my email accounts. Not going to show those. I am an early bird. usually up at 7:00, probably earlier, but that's the first I want to hear from it. I have a show called Forward Future Live. My wife and I often times share calendars, so sometimes stuff she's doing shows up

on mine and I don't want it to get confused about that and think I'm busy. So, it's using its judgment as it says here. If it looks like a joint event or something, he'd attend, remind him. Remember I said, okay, it determined what is high priority versus medium and low here. That is so meetings and calendar invites high priority partner communication medium priority sponsor pitches guest bookings and then low newsletters LinkedIn and marketing access to Grock. It has access to

Twitter and that is what it knows about me so far. And then I said show me your soul. Again the cool thing is you can basically modify it all you like directly from Telegram. So it it's like selfch changing self- evvolving. It's kind of wild to think about. A couple other things, it uses sub agents, so you can have a conversation with it, kick off a sub agent, it's going to go do its thing in parallel, and then come back when it's done, and you can continue talking. It does not lock up

synchronously. You can also cue up multiple tasks. So, if I type, tell me the date, and then I say, tell me the date again, I can cue those up and it will do it and then go to the next one. So, there you go. So, you can ceue up as many tasks as you want. Obviously, this is quick and easy, but if you have a more complex task, you can set it off and do your next thing. It's not all perfect. Let me break down some of the issues. One, certainly there is a security risk. You're dealing with

synchronously. You can also cue up multiple tasks. So, if I type, tell me the date, and then I say, tell me the date again, I can cue those up and it will do it and then go to the next one. So, there you go. So, you can ceue up as many tasks as you want. Obviously, this is quick and easy, but if you have a more complex task, you can set it off and do your next thing. It's not all perfect. Let me break down some of the issues. One, certainly there is a security risk. You're dealing with

non-deterministic systems and you're giving it access to really important things like Gmail and Calendar and Drive and whatever other services you want to give it access to. You're basically giving it to an AI to act on your behalf. Sometimes it's going to make mistakes. Sometimes it's going to make an irreversible change that is painful for you. So, this is really right now for more power users. You really have to understand the consequences of what you're asking it. And it's really

important to think about it as you're prompting it. So, for example, for that Google Drive task, I said, "Okay, tell me exactly what you're going to do before you do it." and let's test it with one file before trying to upload all of them. It also has rough edges. It is far from perfect. It is a project that is only 2 months old. I believe it's only a solo developer building it, but there is a growing community. But that means there are problems. And just like any artificial intelligence system,

there are things where you're looking at it, you're like, I I'm pretty sure you should be able to do this or how did you make that mistake? How did you forget about that? And speaking of forgetting, memory compaction still is an issue. And it's not specific to Claude, but any AI system when you're compacting the memory, when you're taking all of the memory that you have given it, and at a certain point, it needs to start compressing that memory because you've

hit the context window limit. When you compress the memory, it loses detail. So, it might forget something that you told it in the past, and you're like, "Oh my god, how do I have to keep telling you that?" And the way to solve that is to continue to help it memorize those things. So just tell it, no, explicitly write this down. Crashes also happen. And I was out of my house yesterday and all of a sudden I got into this weird tool call loop and it was basically broken. It I could not use it

anymore. Any message I would send, it would tell me that the tool call was malformed and I had to wait until I got home and I restarted the system and then it finally worked again. And next, it's not free if you're using Claude. Obviously, if you're using different Frontier LLMs and you're giving Claudebot your API key, it's using tokens and it costs money. So, for example, just yesterday I used 70 million tokens. The vast majority of which it chose to use Claude Opus 4.5.

anymore. Any message I would send, it would tell me that the tool call was malformed and I had to wait until I got home and I restarted the system and then it finally worked again. And next, it's not free if you're using Claude. Obviously, if you're using different Frontier LLMs and you're giving Claudebot your API key, it's using tokens and it costs money. So, for example, just yesterday I used 70 million tokens. The vast majority of which it chose to use Claude Opus 4.5.

Some you can see Haiku 4.5 right there. Then today, just so far and it's only 9:30 in the morning, 25 million tokens total. Now, for costs, that is a lot more than I thought it would be. Holy crap, it is very expensive. In fact, I'm just seeing it now. I'm kind of surprised. So, yesterday I paid about $130. Today, we're already up to $32. So, immediately I'm thinking, how do I start using other models that aren't so expensive? So, that's where local models start coming into play. So, you really

need to be careful. Obviously, I need to be careful about costs. very cool project. I think this is something special. I do recommend trying it out. Just be careful. If you're really worried, install it on a VPS, but definitely give it a try and get a feel of what is likely to be the future of AI assistance. Now, I mentioned this is what Siri should have been, and the one piece missing is some hardware device that I can actually speak to and have it talk back to me. Having to type

everything out is great, but I really want to be able to have a voice assistant powered by Cloudbot. So, it would be cool if it worked via my phone. I'm sure there's going to be a skill released soon that allows for that, but for now, it's all through Telegram or whatever chat app you're using. Now, it does have TTS support, so you can use your voice, but it all goes through whatever chat app you're using. Go try it out. Let me know what you think. If you enjoyed this video, please consider

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