January 29, 2026
Vibe check: failed or fire?
Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker
Skip the Mac mini—Cloudflare moves your AI butler online, and the internet is checking the vibes
TLDR: Cloudflare’s Moltworker lets you run Moltbot online without buying new hardware, using its sandboxed platform and access controls. Commenters split between “safer hosting at last” and worries about hype and supply‑chain risks, with one running joke: everyone’s doing a vibes check to decide if they trust it.
The week’s AI soap opera: people were hoarding Mac minis to host Moltbot, a DIY AI helper that runs on your own gear. Cloudflare crashed the party with “Moltworker,” a way to park that same helper on its global network—no new hardware—using Workers (their run-anywhere platform), Sandboxes (safe boxes for untrusted code), Browser Rendering (remote browsers), and R2 storage. They also bragged about better Node.js support and an experiment where only 1.5% of top packages broke, complete with a “Ralph Wiggum as software engineer” gag. Subtle, Cloudflare. Very subtle.
Then the crowd did a vibe check. One user rolled their eyes with “Another ‘vibe’ coding-as-a-service?” while another simply asked, “How are the vibes on this one?” Security hawks split hard: some cheered that pairing Moltbot with Cloudflare Zero Trust (their lock-and-key gate) could fix a wave of shaky home setups; others warned it’s “a supply-chain attack waiting to happen.” The cynics went further, calling the launch “heavily astro-turfed” and dismissing it as a fancy wrapper for wiring ChatGPT/Claude into Discord. Supporters shot back: running in a Sandbox and gating it with Access beats a mystery PC under your desk. The repo is live, the HN thread is spicy, and the meme of the day is Cloudflare shipping vibes-as-a-service. Final verdict from the peanut gallery: intriguing and maybe safer—if you trust the vibes.
Key Points
- •Cloudflare introduced Moltworker to run the open-source Moltbot AI agent on Cloudflare Workers using Sandboxes, Browser Rendering, and R2.
- •Cloudflare Workers now natively support many Node.js APIs, reducing the need for mocked APIs and simplifying package integration.
- •Playwright integration moved from relying on memfs to using node:fs natively, improving maintainability and upgrade ease.
- •An internal experiment showed that, excluding non-applicable packages, only 15 of the 1,000 most popular npm packages failed on Workers (≈1.5%).
- •Moltworker’s architecture includes an entrypoint Worker as API router/proxy, protection via Cloudflare Access, an admin UI, a Sandbox container running Moltbot Gateway, and R2 for persistent storage.