zeptoclaw for Mac

Fast, small, secure, and local-first personal AI assistant infrastructure.

ZeptoClaw is one Rust binary for running personal AI agents locally, at the edge, or on a VPS — with tools, memory, channels, providers, and sandboxed autonomy built in. We studied the best AI assistants — and their tradeoffs: OpenClaw's integrations without the large TypeScript app footprint, NanoClaw's container-isolated simplicity without narrowing to a tiny assistant core, NemoClaw's OpenShell guardrails without the Docker/k3s footprint, and PicoClaw's edge efficiency with Rust's safety and runtime controls.

Why ZeptoClaw

We studied what works — and what doesn't.

OpenClaw proved a personal AI assistant can grow into a broad integration and skills ecosystem. NanoClaw proved container isolation can be simple enough to understand and customize. NemoClaw proved managed guardrails matter — policy-gated sandboxes, routed inference, credential injection, channel messaging, and digest-verified blueprints. PicoClaw proved edge assistants can run on $10 hardware with a Go binary under 10MB of RAM.

ZeptoClaw took notes. The integrations, the security, the governance, the size discipline — without the tradeoffs each one made. One 6MB Rust binary that starts in 50ms, uses 6MB of RAM, and ships with container isolation, prompt injection detection, and a circuit breaker provider stack.

Any VPS

Installs the binary and prints next steps. Run zeptoclaw onboard to configure providers and channels.

Providers

ZeptoClaw supports 18 LLM providers. All OpenAI-compatible endpoints work out of the box.

Configure in ~/.zeptoclaw/config.json or via environment variables:

Any provider's base URL can be overridden with api_base for proxies or self-hosted endpoints. See the provider docs for full details.

Features

Core

Channels & Integration

Security & Ops Full documentation — zeptoclaw.com/docs covers configuration, environment variables, CLI reference, deployment guides, and more.

Inspired By

ZeptoClaw is inspired by projects in the open-source AI agent ecosystem — OpenClaw, NemoClaw, NanoClaw, and PicoClaw — each taking a different approach to the same problem. NemoClaw's policy model, routed inference, credential boundary, and digest-verified blueprint flow influenced our security thinking. ZeptoClaw's contribution is Rust's memory safety, async performance, and configurable isolation for local-first, edge, and production multi-tenant deployments — all in a 6MB binary that runs where Docker containers can't.

Usage

Development

See CLAUDE.md for full architecture reference, AGENTS.md for coding guidelines, and docs/ for benchmarks, multi-tenant deployment, and performance guides.

Zepto Stack

ZeptoClaw is part of the Zepto stack — a modular local-first system for running on-device AI agents in production.

Contributing