Clawdbot is now Moltbot for causes that must be apparent

Clawdbot has been on fairly the trip. The free, open-source AI assistant has gone viral on platforms like X, the place early adopters, AI superusers, and even minor web celebrities have been singing its praises. The Clawdbot GitHub web page was even briefly taken over by crypto scammers, its creator mentioned on X. Now, the instrument has develop into so profitable that it has been pressured to vary its identify to Moltbot.

That is proper, henceforth, Clawdbot is now Moltbot.

We’ve to say, it is a change we noticed coming from a mile away. Many Clawdbot Moltbot customers depend on Claude, the household of large-language fashions developed by Anthropic, to energy the AI assistant. And in a publish on X and a new “lore” publish on GitHub, Moltbot creator Peter Steinberger confirmed that he determined to vary the identify underneath what he described as “well mannered” strain from Anthropic.

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Beforehand, Clawdbot’s mascot was a “area lobster” named Clawd. Shifting ahead, the crustacean’s identify can be Molty. (Lobsters, famously, have claws. Get it?)

Molty’s new bio reads:

For some time, the lobster was known as Clawd, dwelling in a Clawdbot. However in January 2026, Anthropic despatched a well mannered electronic mail asking for a reputation change (trademark stuff). And so the lobster did what lobsters do finest: It molted. Shedding its previous shell, the creature emerged anew as Molty, dwelling in a Moltbot. New shell, similar lobster soul.

Already, Steinberger’s GitHub has been renamed to mirror the identify change, and the previous clawd.bot web site is being changed by molt.bot.

To be sincere, Moltbot is not practically as robust a reputation. Molting just isn’t a very engaging verb. It might be like naming your organization after shedding, itching, or choosing your nostril.

And talking of authorized challenges: Is it simply us, or does the Moltbot mascot look somewhat too much like the Android mascot?

Credit score: Android / Google

Credit score: Moltbot / Clawdbot