Stephen Downes

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I am not saying you should go out and use this application (goodness, no, please don't). What I am doing is using it to introduce the new trend of 'Claw' applications, a term used to designate automated AI agents like the original ClawBot (renamed MoltBot, renamed Open Claw). Here's another one: MetaClaw. "Inspired by how brains learn. Meta-learn and evolve your claw from every conversation in the wild. No GPU required." According to Ali Zulfiqar it "Intercepts every OpenClaw conversation and scores it, builds a skill bank from real usage not synthetic data, and auto-generates new skills every time the agent fails." Meanwhile Markus J. Buehler introduces ScienceClaw, "is an open-source crowdsourcing AI swarm for decentralized scientific discovery, inspired by MIT's Infinite Corridor (Github)." Meanwhile, over at Cisco we have DefenseClaw, "the agentic governance layer that sits on top of OpenShell and includes Cisco's open sourced scanners into something a developer can deploy in under five minutes" (OpenShell is a sandboxed environment for OpenClaw, providing kernel isolation, deny-by-default network access, etc.).

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