Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

Posted by jimminyx 5 days ago

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation(github.com)

I’ve been running Clawdbot for the last couple weeks and have genuinely found it useful but running it scares the crap out of me.

OpenClaw has 52+ modules and runs agents with near-unlimited permissions in a single Node process. NanoClaw is ~500 lines of core code, agents run in actual Apple containers with filesystem isolation. Each chat gets its own sandboxed context.

This is not a swiss army knife. It’s built to match my exact needs. Fork it and make it yours.

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nsonha 5 days ago|

what's the difference between this and just exposing opencode running in colima or whatever through tailscale? I got the impression that Clawdbot adds the headless browser (does it?) and that's the value. Otherwise even "nano"claw seems like uneccessary bloat for me.

ivanstepanovftw 5 days ago||

Where are those 500 lines of code?

QuadmasterXLII 5 days ago|

Earlier that day: “hey Claude how many lines of code are in this project? 500? Great!”

suprstarrd 5 days ago||

It blows my mind that this wasn't the thought process going in. Thank you for doing this!

ccheshirecat 4 days ago||

i installed clawdbot twice but didn't really use it because i couldn't wrap my head around the skills and plugins, this looks so much more managable. and +1 for apple containers

moi2388 4 days ago||

500 lines? Single files in that repo already have more than 500 lines.

elgrantomate 4 days ago||

def appreciate this more compact approach; everything is an experiment rn.

I realize you used Claude Agent SDK on purpose but I'd really like to this to be agent agnostic. Maybe I'll figure that out...

Bnjoroge 5 days ago||

Can we start putting disclaimers beside the title on AI-generated projects? Extremely fatiguing to read through it and realize it’s mostly LLM slop.

dsrtslnd23 5 days ago||

can NanoClaw be used to participate in ClackerNews?

Tepix 5 days ago||

A personal assistant that runs in the standard cloud (anthropic in this case) is madness. That‘s the hill I‘m willing to die on. Run it locally or use a cloud provider you can deeply trust.

singular_atomic 5 days ago|

Hackernews needs a mute keywords feature. Clawd/molt-slop is mass AI psychosis on steroids.

fragmede 5 days ago|

If only there was some sort of thing that would help you build that for yourself.

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