setup

A first-time setup guide for NanoClaw, a tool that connects messaging channels to background services. It installs dependencies, configures access, and starts those services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install NanoClaw, connect messaging channels, register the main channel, and start or repair its background services.
Why use it?
It removes the need to perform NanoClaw's installation and configuration steps manually. It pauses when you must provide information or authenticate a channel.

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/refactornator/nanoflash/setup
Any agent
npx skills add refactornator/nanoflash --skill setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/refactornator/nanoflash

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,185 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan F 4 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00053 $0.04185
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.02093
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00837
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00419

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5aab98fdb152, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade F, and why

setup scanned grade F with 4 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

2. Collect credentials/tokens and write to `.env`

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

- Linux: `curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash - && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs`, or nvm

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

- Linux: install with `curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh && sudo usermod -aG docker $USER`. Note: user may need to log out/in for group membership.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- Linux: `curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_22.x | sudo -E bash - && sudo apt-get install -y nodejs`, or nvm
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to setup — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/setup/SKILL.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

NanoClaw Setup

Run setup steps automatically. Only pause when user action is required (channel authentication, configuration choices). Setup uses bash setup.sh for bootstrap, then npx tsx setup/index.ts --step <name> for all other steps. Steps emit structured status blocks to stdout. Verbose logs go to logs/setup.log.

Principle: When something is broken or missing, fix it. Don't tell the user to go fix it themselves unless it genuinely requires their manual action (e.g. authenticating a channel, pasting a secret token). If a dependency is missing, install it. If a service won't start, diagnose and repair. Ask the user for permission when needed, then do the work.

UX Note: Use AskUserQuestion for multiple-choice questions only (e.g. "Docker or Apple Container?", "which channels?"). Do NOT use it when free-text input is needed (e.g. phone numbers, tokens, paths) — just ask the question in plain text and wait for the user's reply.

0. Git & Fork Setup

Check the git remote configuration to ensure the user has a fork and upstream is configured.

Run:

  • git remote -v

Case A — origin points to qwibitai/nanoclaw (user cloned directly):

The user cloned instead of forking. AskUserQuestion: "You cloned NanoClaw directly. We recommend forking so you can push your customizations. Would you like to set up a fork?"

  • Fork now (recommended) — walk them through it
  • Continue without fork — they'll only have local changes

If fork: instruct the user to fork qwibitai/nanoclaw on GitHub (they need to do this in their browser), then ask them for their GitHub username. Run:

git remote rename origin upstream
git remote add origin https://github.com/<their-username>/nanoclaw.git
git push --force origin main

Verify with git remote -v.

If continue without fork: add upstream so they can still pull updates:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw.git

Case B — origin points to user's fork, no upstream remote:

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 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 · 326 lines · 53 tokens per session scan F 5aab98fdb152

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository refactornator/nanoflash (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 4,185 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it F with 4 findings (harvests environment variables, asks for root, downloads and executes remote code). It is 100% identical to setup, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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