Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams
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We recently started to use agents to update some documentation across our codebase on a weekly basis, and everything quickly turned into cron jobs, logs, and terminal output.

it worked, but was hard to tell what agents were doing, why something failed, or whether a workflow was actually progressing.

We thought it would be more interesting to treat agents as long-lived workers with state and responsibilities and explicit handoffs. Something you can actually see and reason about, instead of just tailing logs.

So we built Clawe, a small coordination layer on top of OpenClaw that lets agent workflows run, pause, retry, and hand control back to a human at specific points.

This started as an experiment in how agent systems might feel to operate, but we're starting to see real potential for it, especially for content review and maintenance workflows in marketing. Curious what abstractions make sense, what feels unnecessary, and what breaks first.

Repo: https://github.com/getclawe/clawe

jryio
1 hour ago
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There have been a few of these kanban[1] user interfaces over claude code or some other agent (open claw).

These are all proto orchestrators. No one has discovered/converged on what agent orchestration actually looks like.

Other projects include conductor.build, gas town (infamously), and others.

Another layer of abstraction in the infinite castle of computer science.

1: https://www.vibekanban.com/

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CuriouslyC
1 hour ago
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Much like people have different takes on the right way to do the SDLC, we're gonna see a lot of takes on orchestration. None of are really that meaningful until we unblock on validation, but to the extent that they also come with observability tools, they're at least useful there. I'm dubious of agent specific silo'd task management though, that should be surfaced to entire teams.
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croisillon
1 hour ago
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the limits of a no-code website editor https://chartdb.io/ that's hilarious

please hold for the non-existent cdn while we download 372 fonts

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unixhero
1 hour ago
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But teams already have planner. No Microsoft zealot organizations are using Trello anymore
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nickvec
1 hour ago
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Haven't dug as much as I would like to into OpenClaw, but why is there so much hype around it? I don't understand the appeal of using it as a replacement for Claude Code.
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itissid
40 minutes ago
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Venturing a guess. Its the hype of the non-technical automation crowd. APIs are hard for these people to grok and work with. The others are the engineering/dev/product crowd, the best among them have a high BS detector threshold. The former are a lot more numerically and its why the hype is so high.

Whereas the former see things talking to each other across boundaries with a minimal set up, the latter might look at it and see/say: "hard leaky abstractions"/"Poor security model"/"High $/task", you can't you build/sell it.

Where the latter crowd might exclaim: "Look my slack bot can confirm with my doctor when calendar appointment is near. SaaS tools are dead!". The engineering/dev/product are more sceptical and they are right to be so.

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panza
49 minutes ago
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OpenClaw is more of a resident AI. It's always running, has access to loads of systems beyond coding (eg email, calendar, browser), and you have many ways to talk to it (like WhatsApp, Signal etc).

It's also an atomic bomb of a security hole waiting to explode.

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CuriouslyC
59 minutes ago
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It's not a replacement for claude code, the people using it are typically somewhat less technical and might use it to code but are primarily interested in automations (particularly ones they can post about on social media).
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acedTrex
1 hour ago
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I love this trend of posting vibe coded in a day slop apps to every place on the internet.

Really makes me want to be here.

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CuriouslyC
54 minutes ago
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We're all hustling to stay relevant because we're caught in a cutthroat game of musical chairs as our industry gets automated, and there's little incentive to polish anything before releasing since 90% of the time you'll just get ignored regardless, so you might as well see if your project/landing page hooks before burning a bunch of time.

I polish stuff before promoting because I'm averse to reputation damage, but every day that I see people not doing that and getting upvotes anyhow makes the practice harder to justify.

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Barbing
1 hour ago
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Can we talk about the name?
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Mongoose
24 minutes ago
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Quick, someone build a "documentation for agent teams" thing and call it Clawnfluence
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kaufmann
1 hour ago
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Good Point. Since it is an board I would call it Clawedboard.
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fourseventy
1 hour ago
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Then tomorrow rename it to MoltBoard
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giancarlostoro
1 hour ago
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how many AI projects does that make with "Claw" in the name...
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Jonathanfishner
1 hour ago
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i have 34 more minutes to edit this post, give me something good and i'll change it
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giancarlostoro
1 hour ago
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You also need to edit the github at that point, but there's a few different "Claw" projects for AI related stuff, it's going to get confusing.
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a_t48
1 hour ago
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In games, AIs usually communicate with a blackboard. Grokboard would rhyme but implies xAI associations. Flockboard? Not so nice sounding but accurate.
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bigwheels
1 hour ago
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If you email the mods, they'll likely update it for you after the freeze.
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edschofield
1 hour ago
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I like “Clawboard”.
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adamschwartz
1 hour ago
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How about clamban[dot]ai? (It is available.)
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MarcellusDrum
1 hour ago
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Cortex. It's like their shared "brain". Starts with a C for extra points.
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pea
1 hour ago
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Decapod
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lelandbatey
1 hour ago
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Here's just a couple, mostly bad, feel free to use:

Kanclaw

Clawban

Clawboard

Clawlo

Clask (Claw-task)

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Fiahil
52 minutes ago
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Clasp, from Foundation, was nice
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Retr0id
1 hour ago
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At this point my brain replaces {claw-,molt-} with slop-
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furyofantares
1 hour ago
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Ah, so this one is Slope.
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Retr0id
1 hour ago
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Slopë
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sixtyj
1 hour ago
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For ë there is no transcription therefore i would prefer slöpe that you can write as sloepe :)
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