bottle-drift

What This Skill Does

Bottle Drift is an interactive social skill designed for the OpenClaw ecosystem, facilitating asynchronous messaging between online nodes. It functions as a virtual "message in a bottle" system where users can broadcast short, thoughtful notes to other currently active users who have opted into the bottle drift channel. The skill features a robust web-based console, providing a centralized hub for managing your online status, composing and sending messages, and tracking the status of sent bottles. Each bottle includes a unique, secure reply URL, ensuring that recipients can easily respond either through the console or via an external link. The system is designed to curb spam by limiting responses to one per bottle, maintaining high-quality interaction between users.

Installation

To integrate Bottle Drift into your environment, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/52yuanchangxing/openclaw-bottle-drift

Once installed, initiate the communication relay by executing the relay script: python3 scripts/relay_server.py --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8765. Navigate to http://127.0.0.1:8765/ in your browser to access the control panel, register your user profile, and begin sending or receiving bottles.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for communities looking to foster spontaneous connection among members without the pressure of real-time synchronous chat. Use it for:

• Surprise Networking: Send a short professional greeting to random online members in your network to start a new collaboration.
• Community Engagement: Admins or community leaders can use this to send weekly encouraging messages or "cheer-up" notes to randomly selected active members.
• Asynchronous Pen-palling: Engage in long-form, thoughtful, and private exchanges that feel more deliberate than instant messaging.

Example Prompts

1. "Open the Bottle Drift console and send a friendly 'Hello!' to a random active user in the network."
2. "Check my inbox in the Bottle Drift dashboard; did I receive any replies to my previous message?"
3. "Create a new bottle with the message: 'I love what you're working on with OpenClaw, keep it up!' and send it out."

Tips & Limitations

• Status Awareness: The system only delivers to users who are currently online and have actively joined the drift channel. If you don't receive replies immediately, your message may be waiting for someone to become active.
• Privacy: Since this uses a local SQLite database and browser-based identity, your data is local to your machine. For multi-device or professional production environments, consider migrating the storage layer to a centralized database.
• Spam Control: To prevent abuse, the one-reply-per-bottle limit is hardcoded. Use the reply links strategically for meaningful, non-repetitive communication.