The first open-source AI intelligent body in the country! Youdao Inc ADR Class A(DAO.US) lobster: safe and controllable, easy to use and easy to get started.

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21:40 11/03/2026
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Recently, Netease Youdao officially launched the first AI Agent product in China - "Youdao Lobster" (LobsterAI), which is also the first AI Agent product in China to achieve 100% open source code.
As the "Lobster Wars" escalate, the question of whether lobsters are "useful and safe" has become a focus of public attention. Recently, Netease Inc Sponsored ADR Youdao Inc ADR Class A (DAO.US) officially launched the first domestic AI Agent product - "Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster" (LobsterAI), which is also the first AI Agent product in China to achieve 100% open source code. It is reported that Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster has launched its skill store, equipped with the find-skills artifact, covering more than 5000 skills built on OpenClaw, supporting GitHub full skill installation and real-time updates, local data storage, and multiple security protections. At the same time, Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster breaks down operational barriers, allowing users to call on a wide range of skills with a simple click, effectively alleviating the industry pain points of "difficult to use" and "fear of data leakage" for AI Agent. In response to the pain points faced by domestic users, such as high usage thresholds and security vulnerabilities, Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster provides a series of breakthrough solutions. In terms of skill ecology, Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster recently officially launched the Skill Store, fully supporting the MCP protocol (Model Context Protocol). Through the skill store, users can browse, search, and install the required skills with one click, achieving "install on demand"; after installation, the skills are automatically integrated into the panel, and users can easily expand the boundaries of LobsterAI's capabilities through natural language. In addition to the skills provided by the official store, the product itself comes with 16 core skills including document processing, data analysis, Canvas poster drawing, and video generation based on Remotion, covering a wide range of office scenarios. Additionally, users can directly import third-party skills from the open-source community via the GitHub address, install custom skills locally, or use the find-skills artifact to achieve one-click installation of more than 5000 skills built on OpenClaw and GitHub full skills, with support for hot loading at runtime, giving users full control over the ecosystem. This not only solves the industry pain points of laggy access to overseas ecosystems and delayed updates but also achieves real-time synchronization of the global skill ecosystem. Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster is positioned as a "24/7 personal assistant agent to help you with work in all scenarios," abandoning complex command-line operations in favor of an intuitive GUI (graphical user interface). Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster allows users to easily handle complex tasks as if they were having a conversation with a colleague. It is worth mentioning that Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster product is advertised-free, ensuring a clean interaction interface that enhances users' focus and efficiency when handling complex tasks, ultimately guaranteeing an ultimate user experience. Be it information retrieval, schedule management, or in-depth data analysis, users can simply issue commands and Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster will automatically execute the processes locally on the computer in a programmatic manner once authorized, delivering results directly to the user. In the 0.2.2 version released on March 8th, Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster completed coverage of major domestic office IM tools such as Enterprise WeChat, QQ Siasun Robot & Automation, DingTalk, and Feishu. Currently, Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster has bridged the connection between mobile and PC platforms, allowing users to remotely command it to handle urgent tasks via mobile phone apps like DingTalk and Feishu, even when not in front of the computer, truly achieving "digital doppelgangers" ready at all times. It also supports scheduled tasks, such as automatically collecting industry news and summarizing emails every morning, ensuring the necessary information is ready when the user begins work. Additionally, Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster has the ability to remember long contexts, gradually understanding user preferences through multiple collaborations, creating a more efficient and coherent personalized user experience. This hits the core essence of AI Agent deployment: the ultimate goal of AI is not just being a standalone chatbox but truly integrating into workflow. By placing the AI Agent directly in the daily chat tools used by users from the beginning, Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster eliminates the boundaries between AI and daily office work when users only need to mention it in a chat and say, "Help me organize today's sales data and generate a visual weekly report," like a "virtual colleague" who is always available to the team, to autonomously complete the entire process of data retrieval, analysis, and report generation, providing results directly back to the chat, completely blurring the line between AI and daily office tasks. Furthermore, the core moat of Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster is its commitment to full open source from its inception. As the first domestically developed AI Lobster product with 100% open source code, it employs the most open MIT open-source license, making all the code fully accessible to the industry and users for auditing and customization. This crucially distinguishes it from closed-source products: closed-source products provide users with a "prepackaged box" limiting use to the boundaries set by the company, while Youdao Inc ADR Class A Lobster, through its open-source nature, gives users a complete "toolbox" - allowing ordinary users to use it straight out of the box, developers to freely modify it, and businesses to build their exclusive AI intelligent entity system on it. Moreover, the fully open-source foundation provides users with the utmost security assurance: all chat records, configuration information, and business data can be stored 100% locally without being uploaded to the cloud, eliminating the risk of data leakage from the root; all tool invocations require explicit user authorization, cooperation with sandbox isolation, workspace boundary control, and multiple protections, truly relinquishing 100% of data and operation control back to the users.