Veteran dev builds personal AI agent blackcat in a few weekends with Claude Code
Select_Complex7802 · reddit · 2026-10-10
- A developer with 30 years of coding experience built his own personal AI agent, blackcat, after finding openclaw and claudeclaw lacking — using Claude Code cut the estimated months-long project down to a few weekends.
- It keeps local copies of WhatsApp, Telegram and Gmail (mail + calendar) messages with a vector index for search, generates scheduled daily briefings and reminders.
- A plugin interface already integrates Home Assistant, UniFi network, remote SSH and allsky; demo GIFs and the GitHub link shared in comments.
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