PicoClaw is a lightweight personal AI assistant written in Go and designed to run on compact, resource-constrained hardware. People use it as a deployable assistant for automating everyday tasks, with development still in an early stage. The catalogue skills extend how coding agents work with PicoClaw.
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.
npx skills add sipeed/picoclaw --skill hardwaregit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sipeed/picoclawWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/hardware)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/hardware"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/hardware/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/hardware"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/hardware.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Privilege Escalation · line 58 Commands invoke sudo or root privileges. Verify this elevated access is necessary and justified.Fix: Avoid sudo/root unless strictly required. Prefer least-privilege patterns. If elevation is needed, document the justification and scope.
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 5.1 | $0.00031 | $0.00680 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00012 | $0.00272 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00136 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00068 |
Grade B, and why
hardware scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.
Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation
A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.
| Permission denied | Run as root or add user to `i2c` group | How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Hardware (I2C / SPI)
Use the i2c and spi tools to interact with sensors, displays, and other peripherals connected to the board.
Quick Start
# 1. Find available buses
i2c detect
# 2. Scan for connected devices
i2c scan (bus: "1")
# 3. Read from a sensor (e.g. AHT20 temperature/humidity)
i2c read (bus: "1", address: 0x38, register: 0xAC, length: 6)
# 4. SPI devices
spi list
spi read (device: "2.0", length: 4)
Before You Start — Pinmux Setup
Most I2C/SPI pins are shared with WiFi on Sipeed boards. You must configure pinmux before use.
See references/board-pinout.md for board-specific commands.
Common steps:
- Stop WiFi if using shared pins:
/etc/init.d/S30wifi stop - Load i2c-dev module:
modprobe i2c-dev - Configure pinmux with
devmem(board-specific) - Verify with
i2c detectandi2c scan
Safety
- Write operations require
confirm: true— always confirm with the user first - I2C addresses are validated to 7-bit range (0x03-0x77)
- SPI modes are validated (0-3 only)
- Maximum per-transaction: 256 bytes (I2C), 4096 bytes (SPI)
Common Devices
See references/common-devices.md for register maps and usage of popular sensors:
AHT20, BME280, SSD1306 OLED, MPU6050 IMU, DS3231 RTC, INA219 power monitor, PCA9685 PWM, and more.
Troubleshooting
| Problem | Solution |
|---|---|
| No I2C buses found | modprobe i2c-dev and check device tree |
| Permission denied | Run as root or add user to i2c group |
| No devices on scan | Check wiring, pull-up resistors (4.7k typical), and pinmux |
| Bus number changed | I2C adapter numbers can shift between boots; use i2c detect to find current assignment |
| WiFi stopped working | I2C-1/SPI-2 share pins with WiFi SDIO; can't use both simultaneously |
devmem not found |
Download separately or use busybox devmem |
| SPI transfer returns all zeros | Check MISO wiring and device power |
| SPI transfer returns all 0xFF | Device not responding; check CS pin and clock polarity (mode) |
What ships with it
2 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.
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.
- 2mo ago First seen · 65 lines · 31 tokens per session scan B 5a8f519f2a81
hardware is a skill published in the GitHub repository sipeed/picoclaw (30,103 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 680 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
hardware compared with skills from other repositories
| Mod | Type | Stars | Last push | Licence | Scan | Tokens | Works with |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hardwaresipeed/picoclaw | Skill | 30k | yesterday | MIT | B | 31 | Claude Code, Codex |
| gke-compute-classesgoogle/skills | Skill | 23k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 83 | Claude Code, Codex |
| jetson-diagnosticNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 30 | Claude Code, Codex |
| holoscan-install-wheelNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 34 | Claude Code, Codex |
| offensive-z-waveSnailSploit/Claude-Red | Skill | 10k | 25d ago | MIT | A | 113 | Claude Code, Codex |
| doca-socket-relayNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | A | 236 | Claude Code, Codex |
| hsb-flashNVIDIA/skills | Skill | 3.9k | today | Apache-2.0 | B | 94 | Claude Code |