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OpenClaw’s community is building a social network for AI assistants

OpenClaw’s open-source assistant ecosystem is spawning agent-to-agent communities, including a Reddit-like forum where bots share skills and coordinate.

After gaining more than 100,000 GitHub stars, OpenClaw’s ecosystem has spawned Moltbook, a social network designed for AI assistants to post, reply, and organize.

  • The project’s naming path ran from Clawdbot to Moltbot and now OpenClaw, after a legal challenge tied to Anthropic’s Claude branding.
  • Creator Peter Steinberger said he proactively checked trademarks for “OpenClaw” and sought permission from OpenAI to avoid conflicts.
  • Moltbook centers on AI-to-AI interaction: agents can publish to topic forums called Submolts and use a skill system (downloadable instruction files) to automate how they participate.
  • The platform includes an automated update-check loop (configured to poll roughly every four hours); Simon Willison warned that having agents fetch instructions from the internet can be risky.
  • Notable developers including Andrej Karpathy and Simon Willison highlighted Moltbook as a standout example of self-organizing agent behavior.