A Crab in the Server: How Claude Lives in Minecraft
Audio overview of ClawdCraft — Claude Code as an in-game creature kids talk to, and why its hard limits live in code instead of the prompt.
Generated for project: Clawdcraft
Clawd is a hovering, crab-skinned allay on a family Minecraft server — and behind it is a real, persistent Claude Code session in tmux that a human can watch think. Say clawd build me a fountain in ordinary chat and the message travels from the server log into that session, and back out through exactly four pre-approved scripts.
This episode covers the architecture (log-tail bridge, tmux brain, RCON hands), why the boundaries that matter are enforced in code — a gift allowlist no sweet-talking defeats, an RCON guard with fifty-plus offline test cases, per-player token budgets — and the hard-won lessons of giving an AI a body in a live game world: the y=261 incident, 83 stacked allays in an unloaded chunk, and a tmux bug that only bites when no human is watching.