🦀 ZeroClaw — Personal AI Assistant

You own the agent. You own the data. You own the machine it runs on.

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ZeroClaw is an agent runtime — a single Rust binary you configure and run. It talks to LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, and ~20 others), reaches the world through 30+ channels (Discord, Telegram, Matrix, email, voice, webhooks, your own CLI), and acts through tools (shell, browser, HTTP, hardware, custom MCP servers). Everything runs on your machine, with your keys, in your workspace.

Read the Philosophy for the four opinions that shape it.

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/master/install.sh | bash

Or clone and run:

git clone https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw.git
cd zeroclaw
./install.sh

The installer asks whether you want a prebuilt binary (fast, ~seconds) or a source build (slower, customisable). Both end the same way: zeroclaw quickstart kicks off automatically.

Working on the docs? The translated documentation catalogues live in a git submodule (docs/book/po). The Rust build does not need it, but building or syncing the docs does. Clone with it, or add it to an existing clone:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw.git
git submodule update --init docs/book/po   # existing clone

Flags:

./install.sh --prebuilt              # always prebuilt; don't ask
./install.sh --source                # always build from source
./install.sh --preset minimal        # kernel-only source preset (~6.6 MB)
./install.sh --minimal               # alias for --preset minimal
./install.sh --source --features agent-runtime,channel-discord  # custom feature set
./install.sh --apps zerocode         # select apps to install; use "none" to skip all
./install.sh --without-tui           # skip building zerocode
./install.sh --with-gateway          # force gateway support on
./install.sh --without-gateway       # force gateway support off
./install.sh --prefix /tmp/zc-test   # install under a custom prefix
./install.sh --dry-run --prebuilt    # preview without installing
./install.sh --skip-quickstart       # install only, run `zeroclaw quickstart` later
./install.sh --list-features         # print available feature flags
./install.sh --uninstall             # remove ZeroClaw

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