An autonomous AI agent that lives inside Minecraft. Four cognitive tiers — from instinctive reflexes to long-term dreams — let it survive, build, and develop personality through experience.
Most AI agents operate in sandboxes. They generate text, produce images, write code in controlled environments. MineClawd asks a different question: what happens when an AI has to deal with a world that doesn't care about it?
Mason connects to a vanilla Minecraft server through Mineflayer — the same protocol a regular player uses. No creative mode. No cheats. No special privileges. It scans blocks, tracks entities, navigates terrain, and places blocks one at a time. It has to find shelter before nightfall, fight hostile mobs, and learn from its mistakes.
Four cognitive tiers run in parallel at different time scales. A reactive layer handles combat reflexes in milliseconds. A tactical layer writes and executes code every 20 seconds. A planner decomposes goals every 4 minutes. And a visionary sets long-term ambitions once an hour. Over time, it develops preferences, stores memories in a persistent database, and writes first-person diary entries about its experiences.
What are we testing?Four cognitive layers run in parallel at different time scales. Higher-priority tiers can interrupt lower ones — just like reflexes override thought.
Connects to the server as a regular player via Mineflayer. Handles navigation, mining, crafting, combat, and building — the same actions any player can take, with no special privileges.
Four tiers coordinate through a priority-based system. Opus dreams, Gemini plans and codes, Haiku fights. Higher tiers interrupt lower ones — reflexes always win.
Everything Mason experiences is stored in a SQLite database. Episodes consolidate into narratives, successful code becomes reusable skills, and player relationships carry trust scores.
The agent has been running for days. He's named 8 locations, built shelters in storms, protected wounded players, and developed a backstory about a home he lost to a creeper explosion.
None of this was scripted. Watch him think in real time.