Goldfish — AI skill for Claude Code

AI agent runtime — a Claude Code or OpenAI Codex Slack bot with persistent memory.

Goldfish lets you run either Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex from Slack. Think of it like the best parts of an AI assistant harness, kept deliberately small: it is _your_ agent, in _your_ workspace, using the model you select.

This gives you:

• Full tool access: Bash, file read/write, web search
• Thread-based sessions: Multiple simultaneous Slack threads across different channels
• Persistent memory: Your agent remembers the most important details of your conversations over time and gets to know you personally, details about your life, and what you're working on
• Proactive outreach: Morning briefings, hourly heartbeat checks, and optional daily exploration sessions via scheduled tasks and reminders
• Subscription-backed CLIs: Use an authenticated Claude Code or Codex CLI without wiring API billing into Goldfish
• Explicit model routing: Choose Claude or GPT globally, by Slack channel, or by scheduled task

Why This Exists

OpenClaw is great, but it has some issues:

• It is complex to set up and keep working
• It had many bugs in its Slack integration

And crucially:

• Anthropic stopped allowing SSO auth with third-party harnesses like OpenClaw, so it became enormously expensive
• Claude Code "just works" with a Claude Max subscription; OpenClaw had reliability issues with Claude models

While OpenClaw could technically work via ACP bridges to Claude Code, there were many problems including zombie `claude` sessions and it still required significant API usage (at full API costs) for certain features. This made it unusable in practice.

If you want to use a coding-agent runtime over Slack, Goldfish keeps the plumbing small:

| Feature | OpenClaw | Goldfish | | -------------