# Clawdbot 69 Hacker News commenters recommended Clawdbot and 99 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 0.005 years (7 owners). **Verdict:** Open-source AI assistant that runs tasks on your own machine; people praise its setup and capabilities but warn about security risks and high token costs. ## Why people recommend it - Automates everyday tasks and errands (4 comments): "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" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761920)) "this was something that was very valuable for me and saved me several hours of time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760589)) "Clawdbot was able to successfully check him in on his flight back home by itself" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762484)) - Easy install and onboarding (2 comments): "has a very nice onboarding where it makes it super simple to install, connect to your existing claude account" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809873)) "Clawdbot happened to be the easiest thing to install on your own machine" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832723)) - Impressive agent capabilities and possibilities (3 comments): "it's just better enough than a few things I have tried to really give me a glimpse of what is possible and make me excited" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760537)) "works phenomenally well for agent orchestration and personal assistance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492748)) "it really does feel like another "oh wow" moment...we're getting close." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760567)) - Strong personality and polish (3 comments): "personality is the biggest piece we wanted to focus on apart from the capabilities of course" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775936)) "got mindblown first time I used it, and really love its personality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775762)) "this seems like the nicest packaged up assistant that I have tried" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761513)) ## What people warn about - Broad system access and security risks (7 comments): "the amount of people running it outside of a sandbox or isolated machine and giving it that kind of access would probably make me cry" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814150)) "I like the concept but I was put off by the lack of concern around security" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785846)) "I can't read or modify your files over the internet just because you chmod'ed them to 777. But with Clawdbot, I can!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46851359)) - High token and API costs (5 comments): "You can very quickly eat through $200+ of credits with it in a couple of hours if you get something wrong." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46788958)) "I think Clawdbot is amazing, but my only issue is how it burns through my AI budget" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892536)) "Yeah it's a little weird how the token usage is so high after just a few prompts." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761003)) - Difficult setup and rough code quality (3 comments): "good idea but not particularly technically impressive or even well-written. I had all kinds of issues setting it up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030877)) "It was a pain to set up, since I wanted it to use my oauth instead of api tokens." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786742)) "libsignal is not a regular npm package but a GitHub repository, which need to be cloned and built locally." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46762521)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [OpenClaw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openclaw.md): 776 recommend - [Muse by Meta](https://hackerapproved.com/p/muse.md): 147 recommend - [Hermes Agent by Nous Research](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hermes-agent.md): 84 recommend - [NanoClaw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nanoclaw.md): 58 recommend - [Manus AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/manus.md): 41 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Clawdbot", https://hackerapproved.com/p/clawdbot/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).