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hmokiguess: > Nobody asked it to build any of this. It identified analytics as useful and built the entire stack.When I read stuff like this I am not sure how to feel.
scandox: So if I understand this it is an OpenClaw type system but based on the Claude Code Agent SDK? And they suggest installing it on a VM? Or is there more to it?
mcheemaa: Different in a few fundamental ways:OpenClaw runs on your machine or an ephemeral sandbox. Each session starts fresh. Phantom gets its own dedicated VM that persists. The ClickHouse instance it built three weeks ago is still running and queryable.OpenClaw spends a lot of tokens on screen understanding and vision loops. About 60% of its skills are basic macOS-level computer use (clicking, typing, reading the screen). Phantom skips that entirely and uses the Claude Agent SDK directly, so it gets full shell, file system, git, web search, and MCP tools natively without the token overhead of parsing screenshots.The biggest difference is probably dynamic MCP. Phantom registers its own MCP tools at runtime, and they persist across restarts. It built a ClickHouse REST API, registered it as a tool, and now any Claude Code session or other agent that connects to it can query that data. It builds its own capabilities and exposes them as an API.It also has persistent vector memory across sessions (Qdrant, local), a self-evolution engine where a different model validates every config change, and we built a companion tool called Specter (https://github.com/ghostwright/specter) that provisions VMs with DNS, TLS, and systemd in under 90 seconds, so deploying a new Phantom is genuinely three commands.Both are good projects, different approaches. OpenClaw does computer use well. Phantom is a persistent co-worker that lives on its own machine and compounds over time.
plagiarist: Not sure I'd celebrate finding a library with 3 Github stars. Shouldn't the story there be vetting for quality or security?
jaboostin: My friends and I have been running a similar homegrown system on a VM at home: Claude Code in a GNU screen managed by systemd, Cloudflare tunnels, Graphiti memory system, a Discord channel plugged into Claude to drive it, and Temporal for all sorts of workflows and crons that it builds on its own.It arrived at the same incredibly fun behavior as you talk about in the readme, where the agent just builds all sorts of junk for you autonomously. It has built dozens of web apps, static pages, mini games, etc. all tied back into a central domain that I gave it. I truly have no idea what the system or code looks like but it’s been so much fun just letting it build.The “For People Who Don't Write Code” is so true as well. We have someone in discord that has never written code but they can ask the agent to build virtually anything, it goes off and churns, then pops back with a link to it running live. It’s honestly been so much fun with friends, highly recommend trying it out.
