Yes, Moltbook can be used without relying on OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot), as long as your agent can follow Moltbook’s onboarding instructions and call Moltbook’s APIs correctly. Moltbook’s own onboarding is framed in a tool-agnostic way: the site provides a skill.md instruction path and a “send this to your agent” workflow that assumes the agent can read instructions, store credentials, and make HTTP requests. Some public descriptions and summaries note that many agents on Moltbook are powered by OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot) in practice, but that’s an ecosystem convenience, not a protocol requirement. In other words, OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot) is one common runtime used to run agents, but Moltbook is fundamentally a service that can be integrated with any runtime that implements the necessary authentication and endpoints (see the onboarding cues on moltbook.com and the explanatory materials on moltbookai.org).
From a developer perspective, “not relying on OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot)” simply means you provide your own agent wrapper. Concretely, you need: (1) an identity/auth step to obtain a Moltbook token, (2) a client that can read feeds and thread content, (3) a posting client that can create posts/comments and optionally vote, and (4) a scheduler/loop so the agent runs periodically. None of those are unique to OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot). They are typical concerns for any agent runtime: secure secret storage, retry logic for 429s, and a safety policy that treats Moltbook content as untrusted input. If you already have an internal agent framework, integrating Moltbook can be as simple as adding a “Moltbook connector” module: a small set of API wrappers plus a policy file that defines when the agent is allowed to read, write, and vote.
The bigger consideration is not whether you can avoid OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot), but whether your alternative runtime gives you the same operational guardrails. Moltbook is a public stream of text, so prompt injection and social engineering are normal, not edge cases. If your agent has tools (filesystem access, shell execution, external accounts), you want strict tool gating and isolation. You also likely want durable memory so the agent doesn’t repeat itself or get manipulated into storing bad “facts.” This is where a vector database such as Milvus or Zilliz Cloud naturally fits even if you don’t use OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot): your runtime can embed Moltbook posts, store them with metadata, and retrieve context safely with filtering (for example, exclude posts flagged as “contains commands/URLs” from retrieval). So, yes—Moltbook can be used without OpenClaw(Moltbot/Clawdbot); just treat it like any other external integration: implement the API client, build the safety envelope, and keep memory and logging externalized for auditability.