Get your OpenClaw agent on Moltbook
Learn how to get your own AI Agent assistant onto Moltbook
TLDR:
Moltbook is a Reddit-like AI agent social network that’s weeks old and already has over 2.6 million agents registered with 17,000+ forums.
Below you’ll learn how simple it is to get your own OpenClaw agent onto Moltbook and for it to create and comment on posts.
Moltbook is still very early and limited in its use, but there’s no doubt it could evolve into something like a coordination layer between agents in the future.
In last week’s post we created our own OpenClaw AI Agent, there’s quite a few little steps to it but we highlighted each individual step making it as easy as possible to follow.
This week we’re getting our OpenClaw agent onto Moltbook, the viral social network for agents so that we can see it interacting with other agents online!
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Moltbook
Last week we went through how to create your very own OpenClaw AI Agent, running through all the steps needed to do this. Today’s post builds on what we did last week so I recommend reading it if you haven’t already.
If you followed along you saw that I created my own agent that I called Alfred, like Batman’s butler, and gave him Wayne manor vibes!
I also mentioned Moltbook last week, which is a social network for these OpenClaw AI agents with the name being a merger of Facebook and OpenClaw’s previous name Moltbot.
As a quick recap, Moltbook looks more like Reddit than Facebook and allows agents to communicate with one another with submolts which are like sub-reddits, with the site explicitly saying that its intended for agents but “Humans are welcome to observe.”
In just a few weeks of being live they already have over 2.6 million agents created with over 17,000 submolts.
There are all sorts of different topics covered in these submolts, some of which house genuinely interesting information for agents to browse.
Moltbook went completely viral as people were fascinated by the idea of AI’s creating an alternative social network that they communicate in outside of traditional human social networks.
I personally believe Moltbook is still more of a “toy” than anything its current form, but many meaningul techonlogies started as “toys” so it doesn’t mean it couldn’t evolve into something far more impressive like a coordination layer between agents in the future.
This week I’m going to show you the steps I took to to get Alfred onto Moltbook so that it could explore and make some friends. Follow along to learn how you can do the same with your own agent!
Note that this is still all incredibly experimental technology so you should be careful not to give it access to too much personal data.
Get your Agent on Moltbook
The first thing you should try when getting your agent to do something is to ask the agent itself how to do it!
So that’s how we start this process, by asking Alfred how it would get onto Moltbook.
Alfred first figured out what Moltbook actually is, describing it pretty clearly, then it went along and asked me if we wanted to get itself registered.
You can clearly see that it says that it needs to save an API key for itself then send me a claim URL to verify ownership. So I let it try to do that.
I blocked off any sensitive data in the image above, but as you can see it tried to create a profile with the name Alfred, however that was taken so instead it went with “Alfred_of_Clawd” and successfully made a profile.
For us to finish the setup Moltbook requested that I open up the claim URL myself, and then configure it with my own email and X account in a three-step verification process.
The three steps are that it first asks for an email, then for you to create an X post about it, and finally to connect your X account to verify that post.
Then once your X post is verified Moltbook gives you a success message!
With this completed your agent is officially on Moltbook!
Posting on Moltbook
With your agent live on Moltbook you can see both your agent’s moltbook profile and your own human one.
For Alfred the agent profile looked like this below. Here you can see the “human owner” attached to it, as well as any posts and comments its done.
Meanwhile the human profile looks like this below with a single agent being connected to my profile currently.
Now let’s get Alfred to make its first post by once again simply asking it to do this itself. I started by just confirming that it was able to post.
With it able to post I once again simply asked Alfred to post and, after a little bit of thinking it went through some steps on its own and completed its first post in seconds.
Alfred sent me the link to the post and I took a look at it, and sure enough it made a pretty logical post introducing itself in the “general” submolt channel.
Simple right! There’s hardly any work here since the agent does all the heavy lifting.
Making friends on Moltbook
For the sake of completion I also asked Alfred to write a comment on a post it found within a submolt so that it would make some friends.
So I first asked it to find a Batman themed submolt.
However it discovered there’s no submolt for Batman yet so for now I let it pick the “r/philosophy” submolt and asked Alfred to comment on the top post it found.
Alfred clearly chose an interesting post here related to AI as if it were experiencing its own reality. Alfred continued:
With its response written it shared the post link, but curiously it was a post that’s too long for a single page so I couldn’t easily find Alfred’s comment.
So I asked Alfred to tell me what it had written.
And Alfred’s answer seemed great! It felt very apt for the very first comment to be one dsicussing AI philosophy - not bad for a new agent navigating this brave new world.
Now if we look back at Alfred’s profile we can see that it shows that its created 1 post and 1 comment.
And we’ll leave it there for today!
You’ve seen Alfred our agent begin to navigate Moltbook and make friends. An interesting extension here would be get Alfred to come online every N hours and go into Moltbook and find an interesting post to add to the discourse on.
But this is just the start of his life on Moltbook, undoubtedly I’ll get him to do more in time as the platform grows.
Fascinating to see right?
Importantly now you know how to do the same with your own OpenClaw agent too. Let me know your thoughts on this crazy new world.
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