Show HN: Claw Drive – Open-source AI file manager that auto-organizes your files

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3 months ago

I kept downloading the same insurance card three times because I could never find where I saved it. My file system was full of `cv-final-final.docx` and 7-layer-deep folder hierarchies.

So I built Claw Drive — a CLI tool + AI skill that turns a local AI agent into a file manager.

How it works: send a file to your agent (locally, via email, or Telegram), and it auto-categorizes it into a structured directory, generates tags, deduplicates via SHA-256, and indexes everything in a JSONL file. Later you find files with natural language queries.

Key decisions: - JSONL index instead of a database — easy to inspect, version, and back up - CLI for write ops (store/update/delete), but the agent reads the index directly for search — no point building grep when the consumer is an LLM - Privacy-first: won't read file contents unless explicitly allowed. No response = treated as sensitive by default - Optional Google Drive sync via fswatch + rclone

Built as an OpenClaw skill but the CLI is standalone. Written in bash.

Would love feedback on the architecture and any edge cases I'm missing.