[splatzone]

What about heartbeats, cron etc? Seems like a major part of the 'claw' appeal is that it can work autonomously, monitor your email inbox for stuff and take action automatically...

[mh2266]

I hear a lot about people doing this but it really seems like it is prompt injection as a service. eventually the things that can happen when you give the world write access to an unattended LLM that can access both your browser and password reset mechanism will happen.

or someone will just make it email lewd pics to people’s bosses for the lols

[crimsonnoodle58]

That theory is being tested. So far no prompt injection has broken in:

https://hackmyclaw.com/

[dmix]

I would never use it on my MacBook or any machine but I understand why technical people would want to experiment with something dangerous like that. It’s novel, exciting, and might inspire some real practical products in the future (not just highly experimental alpha software).

[furyofantares]

I'd love if someone with experience can correct me if I'm wrong but in my experience it can do all of that really, really badly. I find the happy and most likely case for any sort of autonomous thing is that it totally fails to do anything. The sad case is it does the wrong thing. There's just no case where these things make good judgement calls or understand what you think is important.

I do still find some things useful about my nanoclaw setup - convenience and easy scheduling of LLM related tasks. Well, promising actually, not useful yet. But autonomy is not one of those things.

[avaer]

You could literally set up a heartbeat or a cron. It's faster than setting up the claw.

And if you don't know how, CC does.

[aqme28]

Ask your claude to make a cron to wake itself up. Done.

[_pdp_]

You can do both with the cron daemon. But pantalk can also trigger the agent after some notifications are buffered too. So that also is a trigger. You don't really need one massive library. All operating systems have native ways to do all of these things and more.

I don't know. You can even use systemd if you like.

[zackify]

Hahaha a year ago I did this. Crontab -e

Run Claude -p and Claude already has mcp,'s configured so it can do anything I wanted.

[phanimahesh]

Crontab entry to read a file and run a prompt?