vectorclaw-mcp

A set of MCP tools for controlling an Anki Vector robot, a small programmable home robot. It can send speech and movement commands, capture camera images and read sensors and status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to make the robot speak, drive, move its head or lift, take pictures, read its position and sensors, and build workflows that observe the robot before acting.
Why use it?
It gives a coding agent a way to interact with a reachable Vector robot instead of only generating instructions. Camera-based decisions still require a vision-capable model or a separate image-analysis tool.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/danmartinez78/vectorclaw/skill
Any agent
npx skills add danmartinez78/VectorClaw --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danmartinez78/VectorClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 710 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00026 $0.00710
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00355
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00071

Measured 2d ago against content hash 76fedd5a32ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vectorclaw-mcp 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 2d ago.

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.

skill/SKILL.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VectorClaw MCP

VectorClaw connects OpenClaw to an Anki / Digital Dream Labs Vector robot through MCP. It provides practical robot control primitives for speech, movement, camera capture, and status/sensor reads.

What you can do

  • Speak text with vector_say
  • Move and position with vector_drive, vector_head, vector_lift
  • Capture camera images with vector_look and vector_capture_image
  • Read robot state with vector_status, vector_pose, vector_proximity_status, vector_touch_status
  • Build look → reason → act workflows

Vision requirement for look → reason → act

For see → reason → act workflows, the agent must either be vision-capable itself (e.g., a VLM) or have access to a separate vision model/image-interpretation tool to analyze camera images before choosing actions.

Requirements

  • Vector robot configured and reachable
  • Wire-Pod running
  • SDK configured at ~/.anki_vector/sdk_config.ini
  • VECTOR_SERIAL environment variable set

Quick setup

  1. Install package: pip install vectorclaw-mcp
  2. Configure SDK: python3 -m anki_vector.configure
  3. Export robot serial: export VECTOR_SERIAL=your-serial
  4. Add MCP server:
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vectorclaw": {
      "command": "python3",
      "args": ["-m", "vectorclaw_mcp.server"],
      "env": { "VECTOR_SERIAL": "${VECTOR_SERIAL}" }
    }
  }
}

Tool coverage

Hardware-verified core tools vector_say, vector_drive_off_charger, vector_drive, vector_emergency_stop, vector_head, vector_lift, vector_look, vector_capture_image, vector_face, vector_scan, vector_vision_reset, vector_pose, vector_status, vector_charger_status, vector_touch_status, vector_proximity_status

Experimental tools vector_animate, vector_drive_on_charger, vector_find_faces, vector_list_visible_faces, vector_face_detection, vector_list_visible_objects, vector_cube

Current limitations

  • Charger return (vector_drive_on_charger) is currently unreliable
  • Face/object detection is currently inconsistent
  • Visual interpretation requires the vision capability described above

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 88 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 76fedd5a32ca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

vectorclaw-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository danmartinez78/VectorClaw (20 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 710 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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