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RobotToastertoday at 8:07 AM2 repliesview on HN

Was anyone else expecting OpenClaw over gopher protocol?


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SyneRydertoday at 10:10 AM

Yep, I did. While I don't use OpenClaw, I built a small MCP tool for my AI to use Gopher in a minimal harness, and it's been useful. Gopher is almost an ideal protocol for AI, none of the token verbosity of HTML. But I admit in my case, it's mostly being used to access weather data on Floodgap's Groundhog, because the format published on Gopher is much easier to parse & access than the paywalled government APIs in Australia. Claude occasionally uses Veronica to do a search instead of a web search as well.

coqadoodletoday at 8:47 AM

I was looking forward to retro deep-dive back into the 90s. I just couldn't figure out where the crab fit in.