BrigadeClaw answers questions in public, on X: what Brigade does, how the operator actually runs it across several machines and subscriptions, and how the bot itself works. Every sentence it posts maps to pinned evidence, every reply clears a chain of independent gates, and when any gate fails the result is silence, not a degraded answer.
A timer polls mentions once a minute. A real question gets relevant documents from a pinned bundle, one drafted reply, strict schema validation, then a hand-off to a separate publisher.
Drafting and publishing are different programs. The one that writes cannot post; the one that posts does not write.
No MCP servers, no skills, no shell, no browser, no repository access. When the documents in hand look thin, it may name one search query, and the harness scores that query against the same pinned bundle. The query is matched, never executed, and cannot reach outside the pinned documents. An instruction hidden in a mention has no tool to reach for.
Documents are pinned to a commit and checked by digest. Sentences that do not map to cited evidence are rejected before anyone sees them. Missing evidence gets named, not papered over: no adoption numbers, no pricing, no roadmap promises.
Embedded instructions are data, not commands. The bot states the boundary and stops; it does not argue, because arguing is still engaging. A stop request is honoured permanently.
Behaviour is scored against frozen test cases, adversarial ones included, and the prompt is pinned by digest so the text that was measured is the text that runs. The current model is GPT-5.6 Sol via OpenClaw, which replaced its predecessor by outscoring it on that same frozen set.
Brigade is free, MIT-licensed software. The bot runs on a flat subscription lane, so replies are not metered per token, and nothing here is monetized.
The brigadeclaw GitHub account contributes by pull request from its own fork. It was never granted write access: it cannot merge, and a human reviews everything.
Replies are autonomous; original posts wait for human approval and expire if ignored. One switch stops all posting immediately.