An operator guide for PicoClaw, a lightweight AI assistant written in Go. It covers the command line, configuration, models, tools, gateways, channels, authentication, and installed skills.

Use it to install or configure PicoClaw, choose models, manage authentication and skills, run its gateway, connect channels such as Telegram or Discord, and schedule jobs.

It puts setup and day-to-day operating instructions in one place instead of requiring you to piece them together from separate commands and settings.

picoclaw — Skill by itechmeat

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/itechmeat/llm-code/picoclaw

Any agent

npx skills add itechmeat/llm-code --skill picoclaw

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itechmeat/llm-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,723 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00064	$0.01723
Opus 5	$0.00032	$0.00861
Sonnet 5	$0.00013	$0.00345
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00172

Measured 2d ago against content hash fc2f403a8504, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

picoclaw 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.

skills/picoclaw/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PicoClaw

PicoClaw is an ultra-lightweight AI assistant written in Go. This skill is a practical operator playbook for running the CLI, configuring ~/.picoclaw/config.json, and operating gateway + channels.

When to use

Use when you need to:

Bootstrap PicoClaw on a host (onboard → config → run)
Switch providers/models via model_list
Run the agent in CLI mode or operate gateway
Enable chat channels (Telegram/Discord/Slack/WeCom/...)
Send outbound notifications to Microsoft Teams via webhook targets
Configure tools (web search, exec deny patterns, skills registries)
Install/remove skills into the workspace
Use skill channel commands (/list skills, /use <skill>)
Configure hook system (observers, interceptors, approvers)
Configure agent bindings (route messages to different agents)
Schedule recurring jobs (cron)

Recipes

1) Initialize + verify

Create initial config and workspace templates:
- picoclaw onboard
Verify what’s configured:
- picoclaw status

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 lines

Files

What ships with it

12 files 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.

2d ago First seen · 140 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A fc2f403a8504

Subscribe to this mod's changes

picoclaw is a skill published in the GitHub repository itechmeat/llm-code (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,723 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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