Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL
Hi HN, Been hacking on a simple way to run agents entirely inside of a Postgres database, "an agent per row". Things you could build with this: * Your own agent orchestrator * A personal assistant with time travel * (more things I can't think of yet) Not quite there yet but thought I'd share it in its current state.
Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL launched on February 12, 2026 with 48 votes, #586 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Pgclaw is a Postgres-based system that runs AI agents directly within a database, with one agent per row. Built with approximately 400 lines of SQL, it enables developers to create custom agent orchestrators and applications like personal assistants with historical capabilities. The tool is designed for those who want to manage autonomous agents using Postgres as the underlying infrastructure, though the creator notes it is still in development.
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From the sources
A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL - calebwin/pgclaw
"What if I had an AI assistant in every row of my Postgres table?" I asked myself this a few weeks back and pgclaw is what I came up with: an open-source Postgres extension that introduces a claw data type to instantiate an AI agent - either a simple LLM or an "OpenClaw" agent - as a Postgres column. With pgclaw, store your AI agents with the rest of your data. Supports: Prerequisites: Rust toolchain and PostgreSQL 17 dev headers. cargo install cargo-pgrx cargo pgrx init --pg17 download git clone https://github.com/calebwin/pgclaw.git cd pgclaw cargo pgrx install Then in postgresql.conf : shared_preload_libraries = 'pgclaw' pgclaw.api_key = 'sk-ant-...' pgclaw.database = 'mydb' Try it…from github.com
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