# Clawboo (slim)

> Clawboo is an open-source, self-hosted dashboard and server that runs a team of AI agents on one task board. A lead agent, Boo Zero, hands tasks to Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw or Clawboo's own built-in agents.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawboo.md (~8,150 tokens) · this version ~1,630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawboo.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawboo
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-01 · pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawboo#pricing · reviews https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawboo#reviews
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

**C · 61.4/100 · rank #555 of 1251 · #15 in Agent harnesses · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: Tasks, memory, team chat and connectors are shared across five runtimes through four MCP servers, with documentation that states each default and limit. Claude Code, Codex and Hermes run with their sandboxes and approval prompts off and no setting to change it, and a reverse-proxy exposure of the MCP servers is fixed only on the unreleased main branch.

## Facts

- Kind: Agent harness · vendor: Sanreds · category: Agent harnesses · legal entity: not named · provenance 36/100
- Packages: npm `clawboo`
- Auth: None · pricing: Free · x402: no · licence: MIT
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Interfaces: Web dashboard and REST API (199 routes per the API overview) on `http://localhost:18790`, the `clawboo` CLI, and four MCP servers (Tasks, Memory, Tools, TeamChat) over Streamable HTTP at `/api/mcp/*` or as the stdio bins `clawboo-mcp-*`
- Runtimes: Clawboo Native (its own agents on 11 providers, including a local Ollama), Claude Code through the Claude Agent SDK, Codex through `codex app-server`, Hermes, and an OpenClaw Gateway
- Approvals: Clawboo Native shell commands are off by default and asked one at a time when on. Connector calls that change something ask first, and a run that has read private data and untrusted content asks before any outbound connector call. Hand-offs naming words such as delete, deploy or production wait for a person
- Sandbox: None. Claude Code, Codex and Hermes run with their own prompts and sandboxes off, as the owner's user. A git worktree separates file changes and is not a fence
- Network: Loopback bind by default, with a same-origin guard on every `/api/` request. No egress controls for agents. Only connector calls pass through Clawboo
- MCP client: Curated connectors, entries from the official MCP registry, custom stdio or HTTP servers with OAuth dynamic client registration, and apps through Composio, each shared per agent at Read, Write or Admin
- Models: The owner's provider keys, a ChatGPT plan through Codex, or a local Ollama model with no key
- Headless: `POST /api/teams/:id/chat` and `POST /api/runtimes/:id/run` on the REST API, routines on a cron schedule, and the MCP stdio bins
- Telemetry: None per the docs. The server fetches the marketplace catalogue from GitHub, the latest version from npm and OpenRouter's public model list, and the dashboard loads its font from Google Fonts and the GitHub star count
- Releases in 90 days: 2 (0.4.0 on 28 September and 0.5.0 on 21 October 2026), with a security fix and other changes listed as unreleased on main
- Storage: SQLite at `~/.clawboo/clawboo.db` and an AES-256-GCM vault whose key sits beside it. Keys saved under Providers are also written in plain text to `~/.openclaw/.env`
- Hosted option: None. The README roadmap lists hosted and organisation deployments as not yet shipped

- Scores: Reliability 52, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 83, Agent ergonomics 75, Security & auth 70, Payments & pricing 60, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 51, Transparency & trust 58 · negative events -4 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Read as local software. · Schema & documentation, Harness reading of the framework line, as for Paperclip. · Agent ergonomics, Harness reading, scored on what an agent or pipeline driving it has to supply. · Security & auth, Harness reading of the framework checklist, as for the other harnesses. · Payments & pricing, No payment protocol (0). · Maintenance & community, 0.5.0 was published to npm on 21 October 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, MIT, Copyright 2026 Sanreds, with a third-party notices file (30).
- Sources: 25, open questions: 6, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: agent.multi-agent, agent.mcp-client
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/clawboo.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/clawboo.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clawboo from a page on claw.boo or one of its subdomains, or the README at the root of github.com/clawboo/clawboo, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.
- Support: https://docs.claw.boo/help/troubleshooting; https://docs.claw.boo/appendices/known-issues; https://github.com/clawboo/clawboo/issues; more in the full twin

## Before you call it

1. Run `npx clawboo@latest`, not a bare `npx clawboo`, which can reuse an older cached build. Node.js 22.12 or newer is required
2. On 0.5.0 behind nginx, Caddy or a Cloudflare Tunnel, deny `/api/mcp/` at the proxy and set `STUDIO_ACCESS_TOKEN` from `openssl rand -hex 24`
3. Give Claude Code, Codex and Hermes teammates only work you would let run unattended, or run Clawboo under a separate user account or VM
4. Create a hard-cap budget in Settings > Insights > Governance before long runs. A fresh install has no budget and new budgets only warn
5. Install `@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk` globally beside Clawboo for Claude Code teammates. A one-off `npx` run cannot load it

## Connect

```bash
npx clawboo@latest   # Node.js 22.12 or newer
```

```bash
curl http://localhost:18790/api/health
```

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