When the instructions for an AI agent recommend that you install it in a sandbox, or on a secondary PC that does not contain important information or files, you know you are dealing with something big. Very fat. welcome to Clawdbot, the free AI agent that is on everyone’s lips because it can do everythinglocally, at the cost of giving them total control of your computer, WhatsApp account, Telegram, Google… Do you dare?
Many people fear AI because it destroys privacy, since to work well, it needs to know everything about you. But thousands and thousands of Clawdbot users have already sold their souls to the devilgiving all control to this new free artificial intelligence agentto do any type of automation with your PC or on the Internet, which the official tools of OpenAI, Google and company prohibit.
And what can you do with Clawdbot? So many things that are still unknown. For example, copy, read and write files, organize your email, monitor websites, use any app, respond to emails and messages, buy, book hotels, search websites and offer you a summary of results, prepare reports for when you get up, control the light or boiler in your house, and new skills that are released every day.
What is Clawdbot, and how to use it safely
Clutch is a free and open source AI agent, developed by Peter Steinberger, which already has more than 44,000 stars on GitHub. Installs on a computer with macOS, Windows or Linux (works even on a Raspberry Pi 5), but It is controlled through the mobile phone with a messaging app such as WhatsApp, TelegramDiscord, Spotify, Signal, Gmail, almost any app with which you can exchange messages.
Works with any AIby default with Claude from Anthropic in local mode with Ollama, but you can use whatever you want, including GPT. Of course, keep in mind that some of these AI are paid. But there are many local AIs that are not.
As I mentioned, to use Clawdbot you have to give permission for it to access your entire PC, including reading and writing files, as well as WhatsApp, Telegram, Google, or whatever accounts you want to use. Here you can see a summary:
From here, there are no limits. You can ask Clawdbot to filter your email or move files from one place to another under certain conditions, to download things, to notify you of viral topics on a certain social network, to give you a summary of the news, to respond to emails, to control appliances, to make your online purchases at Mercadona with the things you like without spending more than 40 euros, etc. The possibilities are endlessand people find new apps every day.
Everything it does does not leave your PC, it works locally. It also has infinite memory, so it remembers every conversation, good and bad.
Keep in mind that for moderately powerful tasks, when operating locally requires a fairly powerful PCwith a good graphics card.
Dangers and limitations of Clawdbot
The first barrier that this AI agent presents is that works with command lineand although the installation is easy, certain tasks must be programmed, and having to do it by typing commands is not easy. At the moment it does not have an official GUI.
Clawdbot is very powerfulat the cost of taking full control of your PC, the browser and your accounts, with what that entails. It is not malware, as it is open source and has been reviewed, but If a hacker finds a vulnerability and breaks in, they will have access to your entire PC and accounts.
In fact, It has already been possible to inject prompts to control the AI from outside. For example, sending a simple innocent email, but which hides hidden orders for Clawdbot to stop everything it is doing and read or copy certain files. It has already been corrected, but it can happen again.
At the same time, all AIs fail frequentlyand a glitch or a hallucination can cause Clawdbot to delete all the files on your PC, buy something you don’t want, or send an insulting email to your grandmother in your name…
Clawdbot does what commercial AI agents have been able to do for a long time, but it does it for free, without barriers, locally, and with all the consequences.
My advice is that, if you want to try it, do it on a secondary PC or in a virtual machine, and use a mobile phone that is not the main one. You can download Clawdbot on GitHub.