This video demonstrates building and deploying a self-hosted secure autonomous agent (Popebot) as an alternative to Cloudbot. It covers architecture, job creation, GitHub integration, scheduled tasks, Telegram and API triggers, and careful secret management. The tutorial walks through setup, testing, and operational details to run, monitor, and iterate agents without exposing API keys.
– Secure architecture: isolated Docker containers, GitHub Actions, and secrets to avoid exposing API keys.
– Operational flow: create jobs via Telegram or API, run scheduled cron tasks, and produce logs and reports stored in the repository.
– Transparency & iteration: agent commits logs and opens pull requests so agents can analyze past runs and improve.
– Setup & testing: fork the repo, run npm setup, add provider keys, and use a local webhook tunnel for development.
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Cloudbot has proven to be very unsafe for your data.
It can even examine and improve its own codebase based on experiences.
GitHub sends these credentials into it in real time.
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| Upload date: | 2026-02-10 |
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Specification: I Built My Own Clawdbot (It’s ACTUALLY Safe)
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