Vibe Coding The Samaritan Project Agentic OSINT platform built with 🦞 OpenClaw and running on ParrotOS. The Samaritan Project The Problem: Public record research is slow by design. Every time you need a background check, want to vet a business partner, or need to understand who funded a piece of legislation, the information exists but…
One of the hardest early lessons in building Samaritan was that not all local models are created equal, and the gap between “runs on your hardware” and “actually useful for agent work” is significant. Know how you can tell immediately? Ask a local model to execute a tool or perform a task and watch what…
At a certain point in any build you have to stop adding and start verifying. Things seemed to be going too well and based on previous experience, I started getting suspicious. I ran a full system audit across five areas: the Parrot OS tool index, the OSINT resource library, the case system, the intelligence index,…
OpenClaw updates were coming in fast and furious with patches and security fixes and I had to keep things up to date. Upgrading software on a production system you’ve heavily customized is always a risk. Upgrading a platform your entire build depends on is something else. When I attempted to move Samaritan from OpenClaw 2026.3.7…
At some point I looked up and realized I was wasting time. The build was deep enough that managing it through chat and the terminal was frustrating and slowing me down. The core problem was that a chat AI cannot see your full file structure. Every session turned into “show me what’s in this file,”…
One of the core goals from the beginning was that Samaritan would have its own everything. Its own hardware, its own accounts, its own email, its own communication channels. Not a tool running inside my personal setup but a separate operational environment that stood on its own. ] The Google Workspace integration was a big…
Having a fleet of specialist agents is only useful if something can coordinate them. Multiple investigative agents sitting in separate rooms with no one managing the case is not an intelligence platform. It’s just chaos. That was the problem Seer was built to solve. The name comes from science fiction and fantasy. The Seer is…
Once I had the methodology, the next question was how to actually set it up. A single general-purpose OSINT agent sounds good, but in reality it produces jumbled results. Ask it to build a personal profile and it will try to do everything at once, pulling in too many sources without depth in any of…
Getting Samaritan to hold an identity was only half the problem. The other half was making sure that once it responded, what it produced was actually useful.
The first real problem with Samaritan wasn’t a missing feature.\. It was more basic than that. Every time OpenClaw started up, it forgot who it was.
