PicoClaw
Ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant
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.
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
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