Moltbot (Clawdbot) Installation Guide & How to Use it
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The Rundown In this guide you’ll learn how to install and set up your own autonomous agent using Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot). Moltbot gets smarter as you use it each day. After just three days our Moltbot taught itself to generate images, respond to emails and deploy its own websites. Who This Is Useful For Anyone with a laptop and an AI subscription Tinkerers trying to learn more about custom agents Those who want a proactive AI assistant What You Will Build My Moltbot (named Botthew) designed and deployed this website where I can monitor his status. It even portrayed its sub-agents “Sandstorm” and “Crawler” without me asking it to do so. What You Need to Get Started ChatGPT Plus (recommended) - $20/month OR Google AI Pro (for Gemini + Nano Banana) - $20/month OR Claude Pro - $20/month A Macbook (you can use Linux/Windows but Moltbot is tailored to Mac) Step 1 Before we get started grab these keys and add them to a notes file. You will need them during setup. Go register a free account with Brave and grab an API key. This will let your bot use search. Grab a fresh API key from OpenAI/Claude/Gemini. Next, search for the user "BotFather" on Telegram and start a new chat. Click “Create a New Bot” and give it a name and a handle that ends with “bot”. Copy the unique key. Save it to your notes. You will need this during onboarding. Step 2 Make sure you have Node installed and up to date. You will need node version 22 or higher to use Moltbot CLI. Install the Moltbot CLI with: curl -fsSL <https://molt.bot/install.sh> | bash Run the onboarding wizard with: sudo moltbot onboard --install-daemon Our Config Suggestions: Select “Quickstart” Select your AI provider and paste in your token Say yes to Brave search when prompted and paste your API key We recommend selecting Telegram as your “channel”. This is where you will message your bot. You can skip the Google places API info. That’s for things like weather updates. Select all the hooks. This helps the bot develop its memory each day. Pro tip: Don’t get distracted. Skip all the frills and only install one skill at a time. Step 3 After setup you will be taken right into the introduction wizard. You’re now talking with your Moltbot! Step 4 Search your bot’s username in Telegram. Send it a message. It will give you a pairing code. Open up terminal and run this command with your pairing code in place of <CODE>: moltbot pairing approve telegram <CODE> Now you will be able to message your bot via Telegram! Pro tip: You may have to try the clawdbot command if moltbot doesn't work. That happened to us when we recorded this guide. Going Further Give Moltbot a Gemini key from AI Studio . Ask it to use Nano Banana Pro to generate an avatar you can use in Telegram. Here’s what we got! Tell it to give you a report at 7AM each morning with the weather and what its goal for the day is. Botthew also sends me a link to a new jazz fusion song each morning! You can connect your Gmail to have Moltbot monitor your inbox, but we found it easier to set it up with a free agentmail inbox and forward mail to it! Once your Moltbot has an email you can sign it up for Github. This unlocks the ability for it to deploy websites via Github Pages!
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