alt Hacker NewsI went through the setup process for Openclaw. Near the end I felt like I had wrestled more with setting it up than I would have had to if I had just built it from the ground up. So I pointed Pi at Nanoclaw and asked it to review it and build me a minimal clone. It took a few minutes and I had the core of something that is easier to maintain (for me) than some unknown large and cumbersome system, or whatever Openclaw is.
To each their own.
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Funny enough ooenclaw is based on Pi.
I’m kind of curious what you do with it. I feel like the real value is integrating it with everything but then even if it’s nanoclaw or simpler majority of the worthy things are on the unsafe side.
Would love to hear your experience as I’m planning to do the exactly same.
Yeah it does seem a little fragile. Still battling with working out why it pegs CPU at 100% permanently on a VPS I tried using. Literally just from installing the base
One concern I have is API key management.
.env files or injecting secrets at startup via a secret manager still risks leaking keys.
I vaguely recall an implementation that substitutes secret placeholders with real secrets only during outgoing calls to approved domains which sounds better. However, you're still trusting an agent on your machine with command execution.