alt Hacker NewsI tried NanoClaw and love the skill (and container by default) model. But having skills generate new code in my personalized fork feels off to me… I think it’s because eventually the “few thousand auditable lines” idea vanishes with enough skills added?
Could skill contributions collapse into only markdown and MCP calls? New features would still be just skills; they’d bring in versioned, open-source MCP servers running inside the same container sandbox. I haven’t tried this (yet) but I think this could keep the flexibility while minimizing skill code stepping on each other.
> I think it’s because eventually the “few thousand auditable lines” idea vanishes with enough skills added?
I just watched a youtube interview with the creator. He actually explains it well. OpenClaw has hundreds of thousands of lines you will never use.
For example, if I only use iMessage, I have lots of code (all the other messaging integrations) that will never be used.
So the skills model means that you only "generate code" that _you_ specifically ask for.
In fact, as I'm explaining this, it feels like "lazy-loading" of code, which is a pretty cool idea. Whereas OpenClaw "eager-loads" all possible code whether you use it or not.
And that's appealing enough to me to set it up. I just haven't put it in any time to customize it, etc.