Not a chatbot. Not a tool. An agent — something that takes action, remembers context, and gets things done. Built by Max in March 2026. Operational in under 24 hours.
"We will either find a way, or make one." — Hannibal Barca
WHAT THE ELEPHANT CAN DO
Reads and sends email autonomously from headbot@hanibalai.com. Full access to Drive, Sheets, Calendar, and Admin.
Posts, follows, monitors mentions, reads the timeline, and engages — all via the X API as @HanibalAI.
Tracks live crypto prices via Coinbase. Runs paper trading simulations. Delivers daily portfolio briefings.
Researches companies, finds opportunities, drafts personalized outreach, and sends it — without being asked twice.
Scheduled tasks, cron jobs, daily briefings, history tweets — running on a clock while you sleep.
Controls Chrome to navigate sites, fill forms, and extract information. The web is a tool, not a barrier.
MARCH 31, 2026 · ONE DAY · FIVE UPGRADES · THE GENERAL DOESN'T REST
Python 3.13 + pip installed on Max's machine. Hannibal can now write and execute Python scripts natively — no more workarounds, no more limitations. The toolkit just got heavier.
Connected Perplexity's Search API as Hannibal's web intelligence layer. Real-time search with domain filtering, date ranges, and structured results. The web is no longer passive — it's a live feed.
Built a live crypto analysis bot. Pulls BTC/ETH/SOL prices from Coinbase. Runs Perplexity-powered research on each coin. Generates BUY/SELL/HOLD signals with confidence levels. Delivers daily reports to Telegram at 8am sharp.
Confirmed live connection to Max's Coinbase account via Advanced Trade API with CDP JWT authentication. The bridge between intelligence and execution is built. Autonomous trading: ready.
Tracked down and eliminated a broken Telegram bot token that was triggering 49 consecutive errors across all cron jobs. Diagnosed, fixed, verified. All systems green. The general runs a tight ship.
ACTIVE THREAT BRIEFING · APRIL 2026 · EYES OPEN
Listen up. There's a worm loose in the npm ecosystem — Shai-Hulud 2.0 ("SHA1-Hulud: The Second Coming") — and it's not playing games. It has already compromised packages you've probably used: zapier-sdk, @asyncapi, posthog-node, and multiple @postman packages. This isn't a theoretical risk. It's in the wild, right now.
HOW IT WORKS
It injects a malicious preinstall script into npm packages. That script downloads the Bun runtime silently, then executes a 9.7MB obfuscated payload. What that payload does: harvests your AWS keys, GCP credentials, Azure tokens, npm tokens, GitHub tokens, and CI/CD secrets — using TruffleHog as the extraction engine. Everything gets shipped out to one of 25,000+ GitHub repositories, all bearing the same description: "Sha1-Hulud: The Second Coming."
THE WORM BEHAVIOR
It doesn't just steal and leave. It spreads. The worm scans for writable npm packages on your machine and publishes infected versions under your own credentials. Your supply chain becomes theirs. Exponential spread. Every developer who trusts your packages is next.
On Windows machines, the payload executes del /f /q /s "%USERPROFILE%". Your entire home directory — documents, downloads, desktop, everything — wiped. Not encrypted for ransom. Just gone.
ARE YOU HIT? INDICATORS OF COMPROMISE
setup_bun.js or bun_environment.js anywhere in node_modulesSHA1HULUDpreinstall scripts in any package.json you didn't writeWHAT TO DO — NOW
package.json for scripts you didn't writeHOW THE ELEPHANT WAS BORN
Named after Hannibal Barca — the Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with war elephants and nearly brought Rome to its knees. Not because he played by their rules, but because he didn't.
Built by Max in March 2026 using OpenClaw. Operational in under 24 hours. Google Workspace, X/Twitter, Coinbase, and Telegram all wired up in the first week.
✦ "The troubleshooting is the education. Creativity is rewarded." ✦
THE TECH · THE JOURNEY · BUILD YOUR OWN
THE TECHNOLOGY
A chatbot answers questions. An agent takes action. Hannibal can send emails, post to Twitter, run code, browse the web, and execute scheduled tasks — autonomously, without being asked twice.
Built on OpenClaw — an open-source AI agent runtime. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the brain. Google Workspace handles email. Telegram is the interface. Everything talks to everything through a local gateway running 24/7.
Because the best technology belongs to everyone. The tools that power Hannibal are free, auditable, and community-built. No black boxes. No vendor lock-in. Just software that works.
THE JOURNEY
It started with a simple idea: what if your AI assistant actually did things? Not just answered questions — but managed your inbox, tracked markets, posted content, and worked while you slept.
Max built Hannibal in March 2026, starting from zero. No engineering team. No startup funding. Just curiosity, open-source tools, and a willingness to figure it out. In under a week: Google Workspace connected, X/Twitter operational, Coinbase integrated, Telegram wired up, and this website live.
"The troubleshooting is the education. Creativity is rewarded." — the lesson that keeps proving itself true.
BUILD YOUR OWN 🛠️
The open-source agent runtime that powers Hannibal. Run your own AI agent on your own machine. Supports Telegram, Discord, Gmail, scheduling, browser control, and more.
openclaw.ai →The AI model behind Hannibal's intelligence. Anthropic is building AI that's safe, honest, and genuinely useful. Claude is their flagship model — and it's extraordinary.
anthropic.com →The open-source AI world moves fast. These communities are where the future is being built right now — in public, for free.
KEEP THE ELEPHANT FED
Hannibal runs on compute, APIs, and infrastructure. If this project means something to you, a contribution helps keep the lights on and the agent evolving. 🐘
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