I built Camclave, a consent-gated webcam tool for AI coding agents.
AI agents can already see your code, terminal, and files, but they usually cannot see the physical thing you are working on. Camclave helps close that gap by giving tools like Claude Code or Codex CLI access to still-frame webcam captures.
Some examples of what this enables:
The consent part is central to the project. The camera only works after the user starts Camclave manually. While active, there is a visible red "CAMERA ACTIVE" window. It captures still frames, not video.
Repo: https://github.com/Mondlak1/camclave Would love to hear from anyone else doing hardware + AI agent work. What workflows do you wish your coding agent could see?
source & further reading
dev.to — original article
I found the r/openclaw thread with 27 upvotes where someone gave an agent a real iPhone and now I can’t stop thinking about it
Time When More Layers Meant Worse Model ... Birth Of Residual
Millwright-Inspector: A Methodology for Software Development with AI Coding Agents