Self-hosted proactive AI assistant that lives locally
A self-hosted Proactive AI Assistant that lives inside your machine and works 24/7 for your daily execution. It autonomously interprets tasks, plans actions, and executes them to achieve your goals. It learns your objectives, proactively helping you plan and initiate tasks to achieve your life goals. MCPs,Skills, and external App integrations are supported. The agent harness, from prompt to agentic loop, is under the MIT license. Try it out here! https://github.com/CraftOS-dev/CraftBot
We started building CraftBot before OpenClaw went viral. Our goal is to create a proactive agent that actually works WELL. Different from the nanobot, MiniClaw, or other OpenClaw alternatives, CraftBot is built independently of OpenClaw.
🟠 CraftBot solves some of OpenClaw's current pain points:
✅ Saves more tokens: smart action retrieval (dynamically loading tools that are required into the context) and task mode switching (simple tasks use fewer tokens, while more complex tasks receive additional tokens to maintain accuracy).
✅ Simple to set up and use: clone the repo, run one command, and a browser interface launches. That's it. (Python and Node.js required though!)
✅ Proactive: a built-in planner that plans and initiates tasks for you, with your approval. CraftBot can be your life coach that help define goals, and help you work toward them. Different from heartbeat, this runs daily, weekly and monthly to propose proactive tasks, while the heartbeat is used only for recurring tasks.
✅ Memory: every night 3AM, it "dreams" to consolidate the day's events into preferences, mistakes, events, and long-term memory about your tasks and habits. Here is the implementation in detail: store events in EVENT.md -> read the events and put them in MEMORY.md -> retrieve memory snippet with RAG -> agent reads the MEMORY.md if the snippets are relevant.
FORMAT.md: Agent sometimes outputs artifacts (PDF, Powerpoint) without consistency. We integrated FORMAT.md into CraftBot, so it can follow a format and design schema when generating files.
Multi-mode UI: Browser, Terminal (deprecated soon), or CLI
Model-agnostic (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and more)
Local LLM (Ollama) and self-hosted
CLI-anything support
etc, etc
📋 What are early users using CraftBot for?
Outreach, lead sourcing, PM tasks (we rely on heavily internally), SEO analysis, vibe-coding from WhatsApp, and more...limited only by your imagination! (and the model you use). There is no trick to it. Just tell CraftBot what you need as if you were talking to a fairy living inside your machine.
If you find issues using OpenClaw (Bad accuracy, token usage explodes, hard to set up), try CraftBot, a proactive agent that not only works, but works well.
About CraftBot on Product Hunt
“Self-hosted proactive AI assistant that lives locally”
CraftBot launched on Product Hunt on April 18th, 2026 and earned 222 upvotes and 27 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. A self-hosted Proactive AI Assistant that lives inside your machine and works 24/7 for your daily execution. It autonomously interprets tasks, plans actions, and executes them to achieve your goals. It learns your objectives, proactively helping you plan and initiate tasks to achieve your life goals. MCPs,Skills, and external App integrations are supported. The agent harness, from prompt to agentic loop, is under the MIT license. Try it out here! https://github.com/CraftOS-dev/CraftBot
On the analytics side, CraftBot competes within Productivity, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how CraftBot performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted CraftBot?
CraftBot was hunted by Zac Zuo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of CraftBot including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Zac Zuo
We started building CraftBot before OpenClaw went viral. Our goal is to create a proactive agent that actually works WELL. Different from the nanobot, MiniClaw, or other OpenClaw alternatives, CraftBot is built independently of OpenClaw.
🟠 CraftBot solves some of OpenClaw's current pain points:
✅ Saves more tokens: smart action retrieval (dynamically loading tools that are required into the context) and task mode switching (simple tasks use fewer tokens, while more complex tasks receive additional tokens to maintain accuracy).
✅ Simple to set up and use: clone the repo, run one command, and a browser interface launches. That's it. (Python and Node.js required though!)
✅ Proactive: a built-in planner that plans and initiates tasks for you, with your approval. CraftBot can be your life coach that help define goals, and help you work toward them. Different from heartbeat, this runs daily, weekly and monthly to propose proactive tasks, while the heartbeat is used only for recurring tasks.
✅ Memory: every night 3AM, it "dreams" to consolidate the day's events into preferences, mistakes, events, and long-term memory about your tasks and habits. Here is the implementation in detail: store events in EVENT.md -> read the events and put them in MEMORY.md -> retrieve memory snippet with RAG -> agent reads the MEMORY.md if the snippets are relevant.
FORMAT.md: Agent sometimes outputs artifacts (PDF, Powerpoint) without consistency. We integrated FORMAT.md into CraftBot, so it can follow a format and design schema when generating files.
Other features:
MCP support
150+ default skills (some from ClawHub)
App integrations (Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Notion, Gmail, Outlook, and more)
Multi-tasking
Multi-mode UI: Browser, Terminal (deprecated soon), or CLI
Model-agnostic (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and more)
Local LLM (Ollama) and self-hosted
CLI-anything support
etc, etc
📋 What are early users using CraftBot for?
Outreach, lead sourcing, PM tasks (we rely on heavily internally), SEO analysis, vibe-coding from WhatsApp, and more...limited only by your imagination! (and the model you use).
There is no trick to it. Just tell CraftBot what you need as if you were talking to a fairy living inside your machine.
If you find issues using OpenClaw (Bad accuracy, token usage explodes, hard to set up), try CraftBot, a proactive agent that not only works, but works well.