Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant

 (zclaw.dev)

33 points | by kristianpaul 2 days ago

9 comments

  • wartywhoa23 2 minutes ago
    Still lightyears from a one-bit AI assistant. Send 1 to save the humankind, 0 to exterminate.
  • tehsauce 1 hour ago
    “888 KiB Assistant” but the assistant itself is a multi terabyte rental-only model stored in some mysterious data center.
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    • amelius 1 hour ago
      I'm getting "serverless" flashbacks.
    • kristianpaul 13 minutes ago
      My model is at home... just 16Gb still a lot but just FYI
    • Rebelgecko 27 minutes ago
      It seems to support connecting to your own LLM on the same LAN
  • gas9S9zw3P9c 1 hour ago
    I fail to understand why 888 KiB matters if it's just a wrapper around a cloud api.
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    • ramon156 1 hour ago
      Have you seen OpenClaw's codebase? 680.000 LOC.

      I care how big it is.

    • Rebelgecko 25 minutes ago
      A lot of the *claws emphasize binary size and lines of code. I think for better or worse people treat codebase size as a proxy for "how much of the project is unsupervised, unmaintainable, buggy AI slop?"
    • mihaelm 1 hour ago
      Because of resource-constrained environments, the primary deployment target seem to be microcontrollers. You can get ESP32 boards for pretty cheap.
    • renewiltord 1 hour ago
      Because it means you can run it on an ESP32 which is a low power microprocessor package.
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  • amelius 1 hour ago
    Me: "GPIO 5 can be active for a maximum of 100ms, then it needs to cool down for at least 1s. Otherwise the MOSFET is fried."

    Zclaw: "GPIO 5 is active now, however the server is not responding so I'm awaiting further instructions."

  • hidelooktropic 1 hour ago
    There are many concerns and areas for improvement with open claw and other similar projects (continuous loop script with broad OS access that manages your agents and interfaces with a standard messaging app)

    However, file size I have never seen on that list. I would rather offer for something that is even bigger in file size so it afford certain functionality like better security tighter permissions however it would do that.

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    • stavros 8 minutes ago
      I made a secure one:

      https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot

      Everything runs in containers (I run it on a server along with everything else), plugins have a permission system so eg the AI can read emails but not delete or send, etc.

      I really like it, I run it as my main agent and it has been extremely helpful.

    • mihaelm 1 hour ago
      File size is a legit property to keep in mind if your goal is to create an agent that runs on ESP32 boards. They don't expect you to run Zclaw on Mac Mini.
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      • allthetime 56 minutes ago
        What's the use case for running this on a tiny board? Isn't the whole point that it can use your computer for you?
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        • mihaelm 15 minutes ago
          For something like OpenClaw yes, but not for Zclaw. I think the naming is more about riding the current wave of Claw-related interest rather than positioning it as competition or replacement for other clawies.

          Zclaw is about running an agent in your embedded system.

        • markstos 16 minutes ago
          The examples seem to suggest it would be chatting with your home automation in natural language.
  • jesse_dot_id 1 hour ago
    Clicked on this expecting to see a crontab file.
  • giancarlostoro 1 hour ago
    The domain crashed and burned or something, hopefully this link is correct:

    https://github.com/tnm/zclaw

  • karolcodes 1 hour ago
    1. why
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    • dpe82 26 minutes ago
      2. fun
    • rvz 57 minutes ago
      2. hype
  • jFriedensreich 2 hours ago
    There is the same divide starting to form that NFTs had back in the day. Tech bros instantly like if something has claw in the name, the rest of us will dismiss anything with that naming and philosophy as toxic slop culture. will be interesting to see how far this one will go.
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