mini-openclaw CLAUDE.md

Repository instructions for Mini-OpenClaw, a file-based AI agent system with a React frontend and a FastAPI/LangGraph backend. They cover the project design, development commands, environment setup, and local service ports.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when setting up development, running the project, adding skills, working with file-based memory, or changing the frontend and backend.
Why use it?
They help an agent follow this repository’s conventions and start its frontend and backend correctly.

Instructions file

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/zero565656/mini-openclaw/claude-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zero565656/mini-openclaw
Per session 2,156 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 2,156 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.02156 $0.02156
Opus 5 $0.01078 $0.01078
Sonnet 5 $0.00431 $0.00431
Haiku 4.5 $0.00216 $0.00216

Measured yesterday against content hash 14c96fa175e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mini-openclaw CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 242 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.


Project Overview

Mini-OpenClaw is a file-first AI agent system with a React frontend and FastAPI/LangGraph backend. It combines conversational AI with transparent file-based memory, skills plugins, and RAG knowledge retrieval.

Core Philosophy

  • File-first Memory: All persistent state (sessions, memory, skills) is stored as files, not databases
  • Skills as Plugins: Custom tools defined in backend/skills/*/SKILL.md files
  • Transparent Thinking: Agent tool calls and reasoning are displayed to the user in real-time
  • No Cloud Lock-in: Uses local LLM (DeepSeek/Claude/OpenAI) and on-disk storage

Development Commands

Environment Setup

# Activate conda environment (required for backend)
conda activate langgraph

# Install frontend dependencies
cd frontend
npm install

Running the Project

Important: On Windows, use the following ports due to Hyper-V port reservation issues (see DEV_NOTES.md):

  • Backend: 9000 (not 8000/8002/8888 which are reserved)
  • Frontend: 5173

Terminal 1 - Backend (run from project root):

conda activate langgraph
python -m uvicorn backend.app:app --reload --port 9000

Terminal 2 - Frontend (run from frontend directory):

cd frontend
npm run dev

Frontend Commands

npm run dev      # Start dev server
npm run build    # Production build
npm run lint     # ESLint
npm run test     # Run vitest tests
npm run test:watch  # Watch mode for tests

Backend Testing

# Access Swagger UI for API documentation
# http://localhost:9000/docs

Architecture

Frontend (React + Vite + shadcn/ui)

frontend/
├── src/
│   ├── pages/Index.tsx          # Main layout (3-panel: Sidebar | Chat | Inspector)
│   ├── components/
│   │   ├── ChatStage.tsx        # Chat interface with streaming + thinking chain
│   │   ├── AppSidebar.tsx      # Sessions list + System prompt view
│   │   └── InspectorPanel.tsx   # File editor for memory/skills
│   ├── lib/store.tsx            # React Context for global state
│   └── api.ts                  # API client (streaming fetch, sessions, files)
└── vite.config.ts               # IMPORTANT: host: "localhost" (not "::") for Windows

Read the full file on GitHub · 242 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 242 lines · 2,156 tokens per session scan A 14c96fa175e8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mini-openclaw CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository zero565656/mini-openclaw (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,156 tokens to every session, about $0.0108 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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