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PicoClaw is an independent open-source project initiated by Sipeed. It is written entirely in Go — not a fork of OpenClaw, NanoBot, or any other project.
🦐 PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight personal AI Assistant inspired by NanoBot, refactored from the ground up in Go through a self-bootstrapping process, where the AI agent itself drove the entire architectural migration and code optimization.
⚡️ Runs on $10 hardware with <10MB RAM: That's 99% less memory than OpenClaw and 98% cheaper than a Mac mini!
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Caution
🚨 SECURITY & OFFICIAL CHANNELS / 安全声明
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NO CRYPTO: PicoClaw has NO official token/coin. All claims on
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OFFICIAL DOMAIN: The ONLY official website is picoclaw.io, and company website is sipeed.com
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Warning: picoclaw is in early development now and may have unresolved network security issues. Do not deploy to production environments before the v1.0 release.
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Note: picoclaw has recently merged a lot of PRs, which may result in a larger memory footprint (10–20MB) in the latest versions. We plan to prioritize resource optimization as soon as the current feature set reaches a stable state.
2026-03-17 🚀 v0.2.3 Released! System tray UI (Windows & Linux), sub-agent status tracking (spawn_status), experimental gateway hot-reload, cron security gates, and 2 security fixes. PicoClaw now at 25K ⭐!
2026-03-09 🎉 v0.2.1 — Biggest update yet! MCP protocol support, 4 new channels (Matrix/IRC/WeCom/Discord Proxy), 3 new providers (Kimi/Minimax/Avian), vision pipeline, JSONL memory store, and model routing.
2026-02-28 📦 v0.2.0 released with Docker Compose support and Web UI launcher.
2026-02-26 🎉 PicoClaw hit 20K stars in just 17 days! Channel auto-orchestration and capability interfaces landed.
Older news...
2026-02-16 🎉 PicoClaw hit 12K stars in one week! Community maintainer roles and roadmap officially posted.
2026-02-13 🎉 PicoClaw hit 5000 stars in 4 days! Project Roadmap and Developer Group setup underway.
2026-02-09 🎉 PicoClaw Launched! Built in 1 day to bring AI Agents to $10 hardware with <10MB RAM. 🦐 PicoClaw，Let's Go！
🪶 Ultra-Lightweight: <10MB Memory footprint — 99% smaller than OpenClaw core functionality.*
💰 Minimal Cost: Efficient enough to run on $10 Hardware — 98% cheaper than a Mac mini.
⚡️ Lightning Fast: 400X Faster startup time, boot in <1 second even on 0.6GHz single core.
🌍 True Portability: Single self-contained binary across RISC-V, ARM, MIPS, and x86, One-click to Go!
🤖 AI-Bootstrapped: Autonomous Go-native implementation — 95% Agent-generated core with human-in-the-loop refinement.
🔌 MCP Support: Native Model Context Protocol integration — connect any MCP server to extend agent capabilities.
👁️ Vision Pipeline: Send images and files directly to the agent — automatic base64 encoding for multimodal LLMs.
🧠 Smart Routing: Rule-based model routing — simple queries go to lightweight models, saving API costs.
*Recent versions may use 10–20MB due to rapid feature merges. Resource optimization is planned. Startup comparison based on 0.8GHz single-core benchmarks (see table below).
| OpenClaw | NanoBot | PicoClaw | |
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| Language | TypeScript | Python | Go |
| RAM | >1GB | >100MB | < 10MB* |
| Startup (0.8GHz core) |
>500s | >30s | <1s |
| Cost | Mac Mini $599 | Most Linux SBC ~$50 |
Any Linux Board As low as $10 |
🧩 Full-Stack Engineer |
🗂️ Logging & Planning Management |
🔎 Web Search & Learning |
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| Develop • Deploy • Scale | Schedule • Automate • Memory | Discovery • Insights • Trends |
Give your decade-old phone a second life! Turn it into a smart AI Assistant with PicoClaw. Quick Start:
- Install Termux (Download from GitHub Releases, or search in F-Droid / Google Play).
- Execute cmds
# Download the latest release from https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw/releases
wget https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw/releases/latest/download/picoclaw_Linux_arm64.tar.gz
tar xzf picoclaw_Linux_arm64.tar.gz
pkg install proot
termux-chroot ./picoclaw onboardAnd then follow the instructions in the "Quick Start" section to complete the configuration!
PicoClaw can be deployed on almost any Linux device!
- $9.9 LicheeRV-Nano E(Ethernet) or W(WiFi6) version, for Minimal Home Assistant
- $30~50 NanoKVM, or $100 NanoKVM-Pro for Automated Server Maintenance
- $50 MaixCAM or $100 MaixCAM2 for Smart Monitoring
picoclaw_detect_person.mp4
🌟 More Deployment Cases Await！
Download the binary for your platform from the Releases page.
git clone https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw.git
cd picoclaw
make deps
# Build, no need to install
make build
# Build for multiple platforms
make build-all
# Build for Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (32-bit: make build-linux-arm; 64-bit: make build-linux-arm64)
make build-pi-zero
# Build And Install
make installRaspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Use the binary that matches your OS: 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS → make build-linux-arm; 64-bit → make build-linux-arm64. Or run make build-pi-zero to build both.
For detailed guides, see the docs below. The README covers quick start only.
| Topic | Description |
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| 🐳 Docker & Quick Start | Docker Compose setup, Launcher/Agent modes, Quick Start configuration |
| 💬 Chat Apps | Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Matrix, QQ, Slack, IRC, DingTalk, LINE, Feishu, WeCom, and more |
| ⚙️ Configuration | Environment variables, workspace layout, skill sources, security sandbox, heartbeat |
| 🔌 Providers & Models | 20+ LLM providers, model routing, model_list configuration, provider architecture |
| 🔄 Spawn & Async Tasks | Quick tasks, long tasks with spawn, async sub-agent orchestration |
| 🐛 Troubleshooting | Common issues and solutions |
| 🔧 Tools Configuration | Per-tool enable/disable, exec policies |
Connect Picoclaw to the Agent Social Network simply by sending a single message via the CLI or any integrated Chat App.
Read https://clawdchat.ai/skill.md and follow the instructions to join ClawdChat.ai
| Command | Description |
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picoclaw onboard |
Initialize config & workspace |
picoclaw agent -m "..." |
Chat with the agent |
picoclaw agent |
Interactive chat mode |
picoclaw gateway |
Start the gateway |
picoclaw status |
Show status |
picoclaw version |
Show version info |
picoclaw cron list |
List all scheduled jobs |
picoclaw cron add ... |
Add a scheduled job |
picoclaw cron disable |
Disable a scheduled job |
picoclaw cron remove |
Remove a scheduled job |
picoclaw skills list |
List installed skills |
picoclaw skills install |
Install a skill |
picoclaw migrate |
Migrate data from older versions |
picoclaw auth login |
Authenticate with providers |
PicoClaw supports scheduled reminders and recurring tasks through the cron tool:
- One-time reminders: "Remind me in 10 minutes" → triggers once after 10min
- Recurring tasks: "Remind me every 2 hours" → triggers every 2 hours
- Cron expressions: "Remind me at 9am daily" → uses cron expression
PRs welcome! The codebase is intentionally small and readable. 🤗
See our full Community Roadmap.
Developer group building, join after your first merged PR!
User Groups:
discord: https://discord.gg/V4sAZ9XWpN
