NanoClaw

A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw, runs in containers.

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What it does

A lightweight alternative to OpenClaw that runs in containers for security. OpenClaw has 400,000 lines of code. NanoClaw does the same thing in 4000. NanoClaw is a personal Claude assistant that runs on WhatsApp and Telegram. It manages your email, researches the web, runs scheduled briefings, and coordinates agent swarms, all from your phone. The difference? Every agent runs inside an isolated Linux container. No ambient access. Secure by default

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NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolationFeb 2026 · github.com · ▲533
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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