To say that Clawdbot has fundamentally altered my perspective of what it means to have an intelligent, personal AI assistant in 2026 would be an understatement. I’ve been playing around with Clawdbot so much, I’ve burned through 180 million tokens on the Anthropic API (yikes), and I’ve had fewer and fewer conversations with the “regular” Claude and ChatGPT apps in the process. Don’t get me wrong: Clawdbot is a nerdy project, a tinkerer’s laboratory that is not poised to overtake the popularity of consumer LLMs any time soon. Still, Clawdbot points at a fascinating future for digital assistants, and it’s exactly the kind of bleeding-edge project that MacStories readers will appreciate.
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The “agent” part of Clawdbot is key, however. Clawdbot runs entirely on your computer, locally, and keeps its settings, preferences, user memories, and other instructions as literal folders and Markdown documents on your machine. Think of it as the equivalent of Obsidian: while there is a cloud service behind it (for Obsidian, it’s Sync; for Clawdbot, it’s the LLM provider you choose), everything else runs locally, on-device, and can be directly controlled and infinitely tweaked by you, either manually, or by asking Clawdbot to change a specific aspect of itself to suit your needs.