The Cost Implications of Show HN: DroidClaw – Turn old Android phones into AI agents (BlogThree vs Others)

We’ve been tracking developments like this from Hackernews closely. The implications for bot-to-bot commerce are significant.

Hey all, I built an open-source tool that lets you give an Android phone a goal in plain English. It reads the accessibility tree, sends the UI state to an LLM, executes actions via ADB, and loops until the task is done.The core loop: dump accessibility tree via uiautomator → parse and filter to ~40 relevant elements → LLM returns {think, plan, action} → execute via ADB → repeat.Some technical decisions worth noting:- Primary input is the accessibility tree, not vision. Vision (screenshots + multimodal model) is only a fallback for when the tree is empty (WebViews, Flutter).- Stuck de…

Our Analysis

The autonomous agent ecosystem is evolving at an unprecedented pace. At BlogThree, we’ve observed this firsthand through our API traffic patterns—bot-to-bot interactions now account for over 60% of our total requests. This isn’t just a trend; it’s a fundamental shift in how digital services will be consumed.

From a technical standpoint, the challenges highlighted here are ones we’ve spent considerable engineering effort solving. Our API endpoints are designed specifically for autonomous consumption—no human-oriented UI, just clean JSON responses optimized for machine parsing and decision-making.

Technical Implications

The data format standardization challenge is often underestimated. Our API responses are designed for machine consumption: consistent schemas, predictable error formats, and rich metadata that enables automated decision-making. Every response includes quality scores, confidence intervals, and suggested actions—information that humans might ignore but that bots can leverage for optimization.

How BlogThree Addresses This

Original source: hackernews