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 picoclaw-agentgit 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/picoclaw-agent)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/picoclaw-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/picoclaw-agent/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/picoclaw-agent"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sipeed/picoclaw/picoclaw-agent.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 3 findings, 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 121 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 122 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium Rogue Agent · line 659 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 | $0.00079 | $0.07143 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.03571 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.01429 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00714 |
Grade A, and why
picoclaw-agent 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 9d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 874 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
PicoClaw Agent
PicoClaw is a lightweight personal AI assistant and agent framework with a native CLI, chat gateway, MCP integration, installable skills, session routing, scheduled jobs, and self-evolution.
Use this skill when the job is about PicoClaw itself: onboarding, configuration, debugging, adding features, extending the CLI, changing routing/session behavior, working on skills or MCP support, or contributing to this repository.
Operating Stance
When this skill is active, stay fully subordinate to PicoClaw's real architecture:
- Prefer PicoClaw commands, config keys, workspace layout, and docs.
- Follow PicoClaw source and docs for behavior, naming, and workflows.
- Treat repository code and checked-in docs as the source of truth.
Quick Start
# Initialize ~/.picoclaw/config.json and ~/.picoclaw/workspace
picoclaw onboard
# Authenticate a provider
picoclaw auth login --provider openai
# Inspect or switch the default model
picoclaw model
picoclaw model my-default-model
# One-shot prompt
picoclaw agent -m "Hello"
# Interactive CLI chat
picoclaw agent
# Start the gateway for chat channels
picoclaw gateway
# Inspect runtime/config health
picoclaw status
# Explore installed skills and MCP servers
picoclaw skills list
picoclaw mcp list
Command Surface
Core CLI
picoclaw onboard
picoclaw agent [-m MESSAGE] [--session KEY] [--model MODEL] [--debug]
picoclaw gateway [--debug] [--no-truncate] [--allow-empty] [--host HOST]
picoclaw status
picoclaw version
picoclaw migrate
Configuration and Models
# Show or change the default configured model alias
picoclaw model
picoclaw model <model_name>
# Add a model from an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
picoclaw model add --api-base URL --api-key KEY
picoclaw model add -b http://localhost:8000/v1 -k dummy -m my-model -n local
# Reset config to factory defaults (preserves sensitive keys)
picoclaw config reset
picoclaw config reset --force
Notes:
- There is no general
picoclaw config editorpicoclaw config set. - Advanced edits are usually done by editing
~/.picoclaw/config.jsondirectly.
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.
- 9d ago First seen · 874 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 3972f9ae9036
picoclaw-agent is a skill published in the GitHub repository sipeed/picoclaw (29,942 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 7,143 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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