[gonzalohm]

Why do we insist on making stuff easier for agents? If they can't use the same tools that humans use them. It's simply not a good tool.

We are not building our roads for self-driving cars. We are adapting the cars to our roads

[kevin11111]

its based on my own experience . i tried my openclaw to register to github and it was blocked by captcha and consume all my tokens . we need a different approach for AI agents.

[dspillett]

> it was blocked by captcha

If there is a captcha there to block the automated creation of accounts, that it was difficult for you to autonomously create accounts is completely intentional.

> and consume all my tokens

Your bad coding/config (or your agent's bad coding/config) allowing run-away token use, is a problem for you, not a problem for everyone else.

> but we are in agentic era now.

Enabling autonomous account creation will enable a huge pile of spam and scam account creation, we've been in the spam/scam era for decades and it will not be over in the foreseeable future, your agents will have to put up with that just like us humans do.

> that feature is a friction for agents

[reaches for microscope to aid playing the appropriate violin]

> this validates the thesis and narrative of agentic first git platform

Perhaps your next thesis should be the result of a project where you design and fully verify a system that will solve the spam/scam problem that enabling your use case will also enable, instead of just expecting the world to make all the effort of rearranging itself around the way you want to work.

Automated account creation is quite likely a direct breach of their AUP anyway, maybe you should instruct your agents to check such things and try not to do things that are in direct contravention of the rules of the tool they are trying to use/abuse.

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If your response to this is “Fine, our agents just won't use your systems then.”, then that is great: The system works!

[Hamuko]

I feel like the inability to register new user accounts automatically is a feature, not a bug.

[kevin11111]

but we are in agentic era now. that feature is a friction for agents.

event gitlab and cursor is diving to it.

check this x post for reference.

https://x.com/gitlawb/status/2067048298037629105

this validates the thesis and narrative of agentic first git platform

[Planktonne]

> that feature is a friction for agents

That feature is a friction for agents because without the friction, scams and spam get massively enabled. Calling it the 'agentic era' doesn't suddenly make those desirable things.

[ramon156]

Both these posts do not say anything about being able to create an account using openclaw.

[kevin11111]

https://gitlawb.com/

the instruction is here in the homepage too.

[kevin11111]

hi you can ask openclaw to just read the skill and it can do the full git lifecycle in seconds.

https://gitlawb.com/skill.md

[bakies]

Really all you need is a good cli. Agents I use have no trouble with gh or glab or tea. Clicking on this git platform idk what the hell is going on. I clicked on one repo with random letters in the title and it was empty. Womp.