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PicoClaw

Ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant

Self-Hosted AI ★ 30k stars Easy setup free

PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant written in Go and designed to run efficiently on low-cost hardware with a small memory footprint and fast startup times. PicoClaw provides a browser-based WebUI Launcher for configuring model providers, chat channels, tools, and the gateway process. It supports multiple LLM providers, MCP integration, multimodal file and image handling, web search tools, smart model routing, and chat app channels for building a compact self-hosted AI assistant. After opening PicoClaw, define your password, add your LLM provider API key, configure a channel.

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Key features

  • Tiny memory footprint
  • Runs on cheap boards
  • Multiple LLM providers
  • Web UI launcher

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Tiny memory footprint
  • Runs on cheap hardware
  • Multiple LLM providers

Trade-offs

  • Provider API keys required
  • Young project

Is PicoClaw secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect PicoClaw's latest release (v0.3.1). OSV.dev lists 15 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-16083, published 2026-07-18 (88 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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