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.
Strengths
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- One-click install on common self-host platforms
- Mature project with 29.8k GitHub stars
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