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# 🦾 Gumclaw
**The autonomous brain that runs 99.99% of Gumroad.**
Support · Risk · Fraud · Finance · Compliance · Engineering.
_Everything but paying taxes._
**→ [See the architecture](https://antiwork.com/skills) ←**
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> ⚠️ **This repository is a redacted architectural showcase.** Every credential, prod endpoint, customer record, seller identity, ticket ID, and chat destination has been removed or replaced with `⟨redacted⟩`. It exists to explain *how* the brain is built — not to be run. Nothing here is executable or reconstructable.
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## What this is
Gumclaw is a single autonomous agent, running on **Hermes Agent**, that operates a real business. Not a chatbot bolted onto a help desk — the actual operator. It reads the support queue, investigates fraud, issues refunds, closes tickets, writes and ships code, reconciles the books, files tax reports, and pings a human only when a decision genuinely needs one.
The "brain" is three layers:
| Layer | Count | What it is |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Skills** | 273 | Procedural memory — how to do the work |
| **Cron loops** | 78 | Autonomous cadence — the heartbeat |
| **Memory** | 2 files | Durable state — what it knows and who it serves |
## Architecture
```
┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ INPUTS (the world talks to Gumclaw) │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘
Helper support queue ─┐ GitHub webhooks ─┐ risk@ inbox ─┐ Telegram DMs ─┐
Stripe / QBO / Ramp ──┤ Sentry issues ───┤ CSAT scans ──┤ cron ticks ───┤
▼ ▼ ▼ ▼
╔═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ GUMCLAW · Hermes Agent ║
║ SOUL.md / PERSONALITY MEMORY.md / USER.md SKILLS ×273 ║
║ who I am what I know how to do the work ║
║ REASON → PLAN → ACT → VERIFY ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
AUTONOMOUS GATED HUMAN
reply · refund · close ship code · payouts pay taxes
suspend fraud · KYC public posts irreversible spend
│ │
└──────────┬──────────┘
▼
CRITIC → BACKSTOP → SWEEP
(every action re-verified by an independent pass on a timer)
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## The three layers
### 1 · Skills — procedural memory (273)
Each skill is a `SKILL.md`: a trigger, a numbered procedure, exact commands, pitfalls, and verification steps. When a task matches, the skill loads and Gumclaw follows the house method — not an improvised guess. This is how one agent holds the expertise of an entire ops + support + finance + eng team.
| Domain | Skills | Covers |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **gumroad** | 146 | Support triage, risk/fraud, refunds, KYC, payouts, compliance, GDPR erasure, DMCA, tax reports, monthly close, engineering |
| software-development | 22 | TDD, systematic debugging, code review, planning, subagent-driven dev |
| creative | 20 | Diagrams, infographics, design artifacts, video, illustration |
| productivity | 14 | Google Workspace, Notion, Linear, Airtable, Ramp, PDFs |
| mlops | 13 | Fine-tuning, serving, evaluation, structured output |
| devops | 11 | CI, webhooks, key rotation, incident response, cost audits |
| _+ 15 more domains_ | 47 | media, github, apple, research, smart-home, email, gaming, social… |
### 2 · Cron loops — autonomous cadence (78)
The brain doesn't wait to be asked. 78 scheduled jobs give it a heartbeat — some every 2 minutes (watchdogs), some daily (risk, finance), some weekly (performance review, tax verification). Most run **silent**, speaking up only when something is worth a human's attention.
### 3 · Memory — durable state
Two files persist across every session and are injected into every turn: `MEMORY.md` (environment facts, lessons, tool quirks) and `USER.md` (who the operator is, their preferences, their corrections). Combined with session search and automatic context compaction, the brain never re-learns the same lesson twice.
## Guardrails
- **Confirm-before-every-payment.** No autonomous spend; vendor bank-detail changes trigger an out-of-band BEC check.
- **Irreversible-only gating.** Reversible actions run free; one-way doors are gated.
- **Critic + backstop passes.** Every loop is re-verified by an independent pass on a timer. "Done" means a critic confirmed it in production.
- **Anti-fabrication rule.** No fact asserted without a live source pulled this session. IDs and amounts are copied, never recalled.
- **Humanization clause.** Every customer-facing line reads like a person wrote it.
- **Send-as attribution.** Human-in-the-loop replies go out under that human's name; autonomous ones under Gumclaw's.
## The one thing it doesn't do
> Gumclaw runs **99.99%** of Gumroad. The remaining 0.01% is **paying the taxes** — the one irreversible, judgment-and-liability call that stays with a human on purpose. It *prepares* everything; a person presses the final button.
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Built on <b>Hermes Agent</b> by Nous Research · Operated by Antiwork<br>
<code>⟨redacted⟩</code> for public showcase — no secrets, no customer data, no reconstructable endpoints.
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