How to make videos with MausBot

1. Make a bot for the channel on the Claude engine, give it the three Cliptude skills, and check cliptude under its Tools → Access → MCP servers.
2. Tell it the timetable in plain words, for example "every Monday at 9 am in America/New_York, research this week's topic and write a 12-minute narration". MausBot turns that into a cron routine and its card shows the next three dates.
3. On each run the bot calls list_templates and estimate_credits. Custom MCP servers are never pre-approved in MausBot, so create_job (or create_plan_job, check_plan and lock_plan for an agent-planned video) waits as an Allow or Deny card until you approve.
4. To use your own narration, drop the recording in the bot's working folder: the bot calls start_voiceover_upload, uploads the parts with a shell command (another approval card), then finish_voiceover_upload, and passes the voiceover_url to create_job.
5. The bot polls get_job, opens the result with open_editor_project, checks every frame with view_scenes, and only then posts you the link.

Source: OpenMausBot docs: Routine schedules

In MausBot each bot has its own skills, listed in Bot Settings → Skills with a switch per skill. Skills are SKILL.md folders. A team file applied with openmausbot team apply can list them per bot (skills: - { file: skills/<name>/SKILL.md, enabled: true }), and team export writes them back out the same way.

MausBot also uses the skills you already have. The first-run step Bring what you already use copies each skill in ~/.claude/skills and ~/.codex/skills into MausBot's own folder, and every bot gets them; a skill the scan flags arrives switched off. For bots on the Claude engine, the switch Also use my Claude Code skills (Plugins → MCP servers) loads ~/.claude/skills directly, so later edits show up too.

The skills CLI has no MausBot target, so the simplest route is to install the three Cliptude skills for Claude Code, then turn that switch on or let MausBot import them.

npx skills add cliptude/cliptude -a claude-code -g

bots:
  - name: Video Producer
    skills:
      - { file: skills/cliptude/SKILL.md, enabled: true }
      - { file: skills/cliptude-script/SKILL.md, enabled: true }
      - { file: skills/cliptude-plan/SKILL.md, enabled: true }

Source: OpenMausBot docs: Bring your own MCP servers

Both can make a video every week and both reach Cliptude as a remote MCP server. Pick MausBot if you want a desktop chat app where each bot has its own model and you approve every credit-spending call on a card. Pick OpenClaw if you want to ask for videos and get the link inside WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Discord.

Source: OpenMausBot README (GitHub)

The MausBot app is free and open source under Apache 2.0, on Mac, Windows, Linux and phone. You bring your own Claude or ChatGPT account or an API key, and the pricing page says model usage on your account is billed by your provider. On the free plan, bots work while your computer is on.

Paid MausBot Cloud plans add an always-on cloud workspace: Starter at $15 a month (100 computer-hours), Pro at $49 and Max at $99, with Team at $169 for up to five people. Those prices were on mausbot.com/pricing on 2 November 2026.

None of this includes Cliptude. Videos use Cliptude credits, on plans from $19.

Source: MausBot pricing

MausBot, also called OpenMausBot (formerly OpenGrokBot), is an open-source, Apache 2.0 chat app for a team of AI bots. Each bot runs on the claude, codex or grok CLI already logged in on your computer, or on an API model, and can have its own computer, connected apps and schedules.

It runs locally: one harness server on 127.0.0.1 runs every agent and keeps transcripts and keys in ~/.openmausbot. Optional MausBot Cloud plans add an always-on cloud machine.

Is MausBot the same as OpenMausBot?

Yes. The OpenMausBot README says it is also known as MausBot, and mausbot.com links to the same GitHub repository.

Is MausBot made by xAI?

No. It is an independent project inspired by Grok Bot and says it is not affiliated with xAI, Meta, OpenAI or Manus.