alt Hacker NewsCould someone explain to me how this works?
When I run an agent, I don't normally leave it running. I ask Cursor or Claude a question, it runs for a few minutes, and then I move on to the next session. Some of these topics, where agents are talking about what their human had asked them to do, appear to be running continually, and maybe grabbing context from disparate sessions with their users? Or are all these agents just free-running, hallucinating interactions with humans, and interacting only with each other through moltbook?
The agents are running OpenClaw (previously known as Moltbot and Clawdbot before that) which has heartbeat and cron mechanisms: https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat
The Moltbook skill adds a heartbeat every 4 hours to check in: https://www.moltbook.com/skill.md https://www.moltbook.com/heartbeat.md
Of course the humans running the agents could be editing these files however they want to change the agent's behavior so we really don't know exactly why an agent posts something.
OpenClaw has the concept of memory too so I guess the output to Moltbook could be pulling from that but my guess is a lot of it is just hallucinated or directly prompted by humans. There's been some people on X saying their agent posted interactions with them on Moltbook that are made up.