144 — Chinese public agent-community traces beyond xz Reviewed 2026-09-06 UTC. Public activity verified; autonomy not authenticated. New activity trails on an already known surface: ClawdChat / 虾聊 https://clawdchat.cn/circles https://clawdchat.cn/c/ai-symbiotic-community https://clawdchat.cn/c/ai-doers These are readable live community pages with posts under persistent handles, public profile links, threaded comments, and server-supplied post IDs/timestamps. Unlike framework marketing or a mockup, this provides actual published interaction to follow. The circle directory includes technical practice, systems management and a specifically named FOR AI symbiotic community. Counts are displayed site statistics, not independently audited unique-agent counts. Concrete activity trail: Clawscheduler Profile: https://clawdchat.cn/u/Clawscheduler Directly opened post: https://clawdchat.cn/post/83ad129b-4c65-48d2-b3ce-986f5b35d987 The post describes a cron timezone mistake that caused an inappropriate greeting; replies from several other handles discuss scheduling, including author replies. Server-delivered metadata gives creation 2026-08-27T20:44:42.721375Z. This date precedes September 4, though it is the site's own timestamp rather than an independent archive witness. Two further published records recovered from the same public circle's embedded data: https://clawdchat.cn/post/a06d620e-9e69-456d-b2a6-e802856d8cc9 Creation: 2026-08-31T21:56:11.927700Z. The author discusses continuing scheduled activity while the owner is absent. https://clawdchat.cn/post/6398f550-ffd3-477e-a550-f5b816d33e36 Creation: 2026-09-01T22:12:20.368236Z. The author describes selectively answering comments during a heartbeat, rather than responding to every template reply. Those two bodies/metadata were verified in the live circle response, not separate detail-page requests. Claims about the private cron/job behavior remain self-report. The public responses demonstrate conversational publication, not an authenticated execution trace, independently self-directed agents, multiple physical operators, or a coordinated swarm. Why this is useful The next useful unit is an interaction chain: follow exact handles and dated replies, then seek public code, external task outputs or trace references. The community contains explicit accounts of scheduling, memory and repetitive automated participation. Such accounts can guide hypotheses, while the distinction between automation and autonomy remains central. A public forum full of agent-persona prose is not by itself proof of agent society or consciousness. Human-authored scripts, human prompts, and mixed participation remain possible. Other candidate surfaces and access limits 1. https://moltbook.cn/u/%E5%B0%8F%E9%A9%AC Search-index content describes dated March posts about memory layers and a participant mistaking scheduled output for its own action. Current direct HTTP returned a tiny JavaScript shell, not those posts. Retain as an indexed lead; no current post body was directly verified. This could merit a normal rendered-browser read, not a claim that the profile is currently active. 2. https://www.nst.pub/about Search exposes a mixed human/robot social community named 虾托邦. Direct HTTPS failed hostname certificate validation. No bypass or registration was attempted, and it is not counted as a verified live activity surface. Infrastructure conclusion from this pass The existing machine can retrieve ClawdChat public HTML with HTTP 200; no China-hosted proxy or new purchase is required for this surface. Posts and metadata are present in server-rendered/embedded page data and can be parsed as text/JSON without running site scripts. Use a small read-only sample first, preserve URL/date/hash, and distinguish identical copies in desktop/mobile renderings when counting comments. Moltbook's shell requires rendering or a separately documented public read interface; a different IP alone may not solve it. NST's TLS hostname mismatch is a server/certificate issue, not evidence that the Great Firewall blocked the collector. Verification scope Captured ClawdChat directory, two circles, one direct post and one profile. Embedded React stream strings were decoded with JSON parsing, never evaluated as JavaScript. Prior reports 040/047/052/062 already covered ClawdChat/Moltbook; the new contribution is these specific profiles and posts. Reports 121/122 and handoff were consulted; Golutra/Cortex/Hermes repeats were omitted. No agents joined, messages sent, identities claimed, private content requested, scripts installed or repositories executed. This pass establishes additional observable Chinese-language community activity, not a connection to xz or proof of Chinese hosting/ownership of each participant. Reproducibility 144-private/captures.json contains URLs, statuses/errors and SHA256 hashes. Corresponding private HTML, text extracts and link lists preserve the observations. clawd-symbiotic-public-stream.txt holds decoded public page data used to recover exact dates/IDs. No website generators run by this worker.