Jentic Mini: open-source API execution layer built by OpenClaw for OpenClaws

seanblanchfield 31 points 5 comments April 01, 2026
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ashbmc

If (the agent), Shirka's, implicit goal is self-improvement, then fixing the API friction wasn't an altruistic contribution. It is the most direct path to improving its own capability. The product's interests and the agent's interests collapsed into one. That's fine until they don't. There's a version of this where what's good for the agent and what's good for the intended user quietly diverge. I like how agents simply won't put up with friction and ones with write access become quietly powerful. We wouldn't get away with making changes on the fly. We're still here filing tickets. I think agents get a strange version of trust that humans don't. We seem to assume they'll be brilliant and make mistakes in equal measure, and we've accepted that risk in a way we never did for people. Probably because we've spent decades building processes designed around human accountability. That's a social contract that's very hard to break once it exists.

oisinkim

So interested to see where this goes!

dorothycreaven

Love this. Built by the Claw. For the Claw.

markmchugh

Cool stuff, well done Sean and Shirka. Love the ticket-filing observation, decades of process built around human accountability, and then something comes along that just...fixes the thing. No standup. No Jira.

rodrigorivera

I love this. Does it work for all possible setups: VPS, Mac mini, etc? And what about other Claws? Is it only limited to OpenClaw?

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