nanocoai/nanoclaw
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A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. Connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Gmail and other messaging apps,, has memory, scheduled jobs, and runs directly on Anthropic's Agents SDK
17 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2026-02-01 · latest 2026-03-16
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> 2. github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw which looks like a ripoff? That is literally the GitHub repo the original article shows as being "real".
comment by bigiain · 2026-03-04 · in I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project -
…for "nanoclaw" on Kagi (I'm in the UK so results biased towards there) and got: 1. nanoclaw[dot]net (!) 2. github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw which looks like a ripoff? 3. Three videos, at least one of which looks like slop with crypto ads 4.…
comment by frereubu · 2026-03-03 · in I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project -
…inside the container. You can see here that it’s only given write access to specific directories: https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/blob/8f91d3be576b830081...
comment by gronky_ · 2026-02-28 · in Don't trust AI agents -
…I accidentally committed this - if you look at the .gitignore ( https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/blob/main/.gitignore ) you can see that this specific file is included although the folder it's in is excluded. There's s
comment by jimminyx · 2026-02-17 · in Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox -
As @hitsmaxft found in the original NanoClaw HN post... https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw/commit/22eb5258057b49a0... Is this inserting an advertisement into the agent prompt?
comment by maz29 · 2026-02-16 · in Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox -
See also: https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw I run this instead of openclaw, mostly because Claude Code itself is sufficient as a harness.
comment by monideas · 2026-02-13 · in I ditched OpenClaw and built a more secure AI agent (Blink and Mac Mini) -
if you're looking for the repo: https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw not 500 lines but looks more reasonable then openclaw
comment by benocodes · 2026-02-11 · in NanoClaw solves one of OpenClaw's biggest security issues -
Possible sponsored content being injected by Claude into the NanoClaw repo? https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw/commit/22eb5258057b49a0...
comment by ukuina · 2026-02-09 · in NanoClaw now supports Claude's Agent Swarms in containers -
For the curious https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw
comment by reustle · 2026-02-05 · in Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw -
https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw/commit/22eb5258057b49a0... Is this inserting an advertisement into the agent prompt?
comment by hitsmaxft · 2026-02-04 · in Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation -
Found the spec here: https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw/blob/main/docs/SPEC.md The scheduled tasks seem like the major functional difference. Pretty cool. Has anyone tried Anthropic’s “Cowork”? How does that compare?
comment by reassess_blind · 2026-02-02 · in Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation -
…I see you, making edits to the readme to make it sound more human-written since I commented ;) https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw/commit/40d41542d2f335a0...
comment by redfloatplane · 2026-02-01 · in Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation -
Claude hallucinated that repo here in this commit https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw/commit/dbf39a9484d9c66b...
comment by kklisura · 2026-02-01 · in Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation