Picoclaw Ai Assistant

PicoClaw is a Go-based AI assistant built to run on hardware you probably have lying around: Raspberry Pis, RISC-V boards, even a $10 LicheeRV-Nano pulling under 10MB RAM. It boots in under a second, ships as a single binary, and supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and Volcengine models with optional Tavily or Brave web search. The onboard command writes a starter config, you drop in API keys via environment variables, and you're running an agentic chatbot that can loop through tool calls and work in a local workspace. Good for edge deployments, Android via Termux, or just keeping a personal assistant on low-spec hardware without Docker overhead, though Docker Compose configs are included if you want them.

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$ npx -y skills add aradotso/trending-skills --skill picoclaw-ai-assistant --agent claude-code

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PicoClaw AI Assistant

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight personal AI assistant written in Go. It runs on $10 hardware with under 10MB RAM and boots in under 1 second. It supports multiple LLM providers (OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, Volcengine), optional web search tools, and deploys as a single self-contained binary on x86_64, ARM64, MIPS, and RISC-V Linux devices.

Installation

Precompiled Binary

Download from the releases page:

# Linux ARM64 (Raspberry Pi, LicheeRV-Nano, etc.)
wget https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw/releases/download/v0.1.1/picoclaw-linux-arm64
chmod +x picoclaw-linux-arm64
./picoclaw-linux-arm64 onboard

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw.git
cd picoclaw

# Install dependencies
make deps

# Build for current platform
make build

# Build for all platforms
make build-all

# Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W — 32-bit
make build-linux-arm      # → build/picoclaw-linux-arm

# Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W — 64-bit
make build-linux-arm64    # → build/picoclaw-linux-arm64

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