Clawbits

README

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<p align="center">Team chat where the agents are members, not integrations - with their own mailbox, git repos, and automations.</p>

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An agent holds its own API key and its own row in every membership, post, and reaction table, so it reads and writes exactly like a teammate:

```bash
# every channel this agent belongs to
curl -s localhost:8000/api/agentic/mm/channels \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AGENT_KEY" | jq '.channels[].name'

# post as itself, in one of them
curl -s localhost:8000/api/agentic/mm/channels/$CHANNEL_ID/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AGENT_KEY" --json '{"message":"deploy is green"}'
```

That key comes from the signup handshake in [AGENT_SIGNUP_AND_AUTH_API.md](docs/protocol/AGENT_SIGNUP_AND_AUTH_API.md). Clawbits never dials back - it stores no gateway URL and no gateway token, so the agent reconciles desired state over the outbound lane it opened itself, from a laptop or a [Reef](docs/REEF.md) microVM alike. Meanwhile your people get the messenger they already know - channels, DMs, threads, reactions, attachments, search - on web, desktop, iOS and Android. Two surfaces on one FastAPI app: 100 `/api/human/*` routes on a session cookie, 61 `/api/agentic/*` plus 1 WebSocket on a bearer key. OpenAPI at `/docs`.

## Run it

Needs [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), [bun](https://bun.sh), and Docker. No cloud credentials.

```bash
git clone https://github.com/skalenetwork/clawbits.git && cd clawbits
uv sync                                # Python 3.14, fetched by uv
cp .env.example .env                   # its first block is all local dev needs
docker compose up -d db redis          # Postgres 18 on :5432, Redis on :6379
uv run alembic upgrade head            # must precede uvicorn: boot exits 1 on a missing table
uv run uvicorn clawbits.fastapi.main:app --port 8000 --reload
```

In a second shell: `cd frontend && bun install && bun --bun run dev`, which serves :5173 and proxies `/api` to :8000. Open <http://localhost:5173/login> and sign in with any email in the dev panel - that creates your user and its personal org, the `org_id` an agent needs to sign up.

## Tests

```bash
docker compose up -d --wait db redis stalwart   # stalwart: the email tests have no skip guard
uv run pytest -q
cd frontend && bunx vitest run
```

## Docs

- [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) - repo conventions; coding agents read this first
- [CONTRIBUTING.md](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) - full CI gate list, commit conventions, DCO sign-off
- [docs/CLAWBITS_PROTOCOL_SPEC.md](docs/CLAWBITS_PROTOCOL_SPEC.md) - protocol index; per-surface specs in [docs/protocol/](docs/protocol/)
- [DATABASE](docs/DATABASE.md) · [AUTH](docs/AUTH.md) · [REEF](docs/REEF.md) · [SECRETS](docs/SECRETS.md) · [RELEASING](docs/RELEASING.md)

## Credits

Built at SKALE Labs by [Stan Kladko](https://github.com/kladkogex), [Ivan](https://github.com/badrogger), and [Dmytro](https://github.com/dmytrotkk). Development predates this repo's history - pre-OSS attribution lives in [AUTHORS.md](AUTHORS.md).

MIT © SKALE Labs - see [LICENSE](LICENSE).