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NanoClaw

by NanoCo

A small, open-source personal agent you host yourself and message on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and more, each session in its own container.

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Pricing
Free
Category
Personal assistant
Platforms
Apple, Windows, Linux, Terminal
Type
Texting · Open source
Maker
NanoCo
Website
nanoclaw.dev
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Code
Last verified
October 16, 2026

What it does

NanoClaw is an open-source (MIT) personal AI agent built as a lean alternative to OpenClaw: the core is a few thousand lines you can read in an afternoon. It runs on your own machine, and every active session gets its own Docker container, so the agent only sees the files and credentials you give it. By default it never holds raw API keys; a credential vault adds them per request. You talk to it from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal or iMessage, give each channel its own agent or share one, and set scheduled jobs such as morning briefings. New channels and tools come as skills. The setup script installs what it needs, asks whether Claude or Codex should power your first agent, stores that credential in the vault and pairs your first chat app.

  • Container isolation per session
  • Credential vault, no raw keys
  • Per-channel or shared agents
  • Scheduled tasks
  • Skills over features
  • Small, readable codebase
  • Chat with it in your messaging apps
  • Each session isolated in a container

Best for

Developers who want an agent they can fully readRunning a personal agent on your own hardwareSeparate agents per chat app or team

The maker

NanoCo, Inc.

“Your personal AI agent. Secure. Lightweight. Yours.”In their words

Pricing

Free

Free and open source (MIT). You run it on your own machine and pay your model provider: Claude (API key or subscription) by default, Codex (ChatGPT subscription or OpenAI API key), or OpenCode; local Ollama models need no hosted-model bill.

PlanPrice
Open sourceSelf-hosted; bring your own model accessFree

Prices change. Confirm on the official site.

Runs on

iOSAndroidMacWindowsLinuxWebCLIChromeWhatsAppTelegramSMSAPI

Lit = listed by the maker. Dimmed = not listed.

Self-hosted with Docker on macOS, Linux or Windows (through WSL2). You message it in WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal or iMessage, or a local command line.

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Last verified October 16, 2026

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