🦞 FasterClaw is the ultra-lightweight, high-performance, and privacy-first open-source AI agent designed for efficient self-hosted personal automation. Rewritten from the ground up in Go language, FasterClaw significantly surpasses the original OpenClaw in speed and resource efficiency. It boasts a 99% reduction in memory usage and a 400x faster startup time, making it ideal for running powerful AI automation on low-cost hardware and edge devices like the Raspberry Pi.
FasterClaw empowers you to turn natural language into real-world action, from managing your inbox and scheduling meetings to controlling smart devices, pushing code, summarizing documents, and even autonomously building new skills. It's the ultimate proactive personal AI assistant for 2026 and beyond.
Embrace true autonomy with FasterClaw: fully open-source, privacy-first, and designed to run locally on your hardware (Mac, Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi, VPS). Bring your own LLM – it supports Claude, GPT, Google Gemini, Llama, Mistral, and other local models. No subscriptions, no cloud lock-in, just pure, self-hosted AI power.
- Why FasterClaw?
- Key Features
- How It Works
- Getting Started
- Supported Platforms & Integrations
- Security & Privacy
- Community & Skills
- Contributing
- License
- Acknowledgments
While the original OpenClaw is powerful, FasterClaw redefines Go-powered AI agent performance and efficiency for a new era of personal AI automation.
- 🪶 Ultra-lightweight AI: Less than 10MB memory footprint — a staggering 99% smaller than OpenClaw. Ideal for resource-constrained environments and edge AI deployments.
- 💰 Minimal Cost AI Hardware: Runs efficiently on $10 hardware, making cost-effective AI solutions accessible to everyone. That's 98% cheaper than a Mac mini!
- ⚡️ Blazing Fast Performance: Achieves a 400x faster startup time, booting in under a second on a single 0.6GHz core. Experience high-speed AI automation like never before.
- 🌍 Truly Portable AI Agent: Provided as a single binary, offering universal compatibility across RISC-V, ARM, and x86 architectures. The ultimate portable AI solution for any platform.
- 🤖 AI-Bootstrapped Development: The entire Go implementation was autonomously generated by an AI agent, showcasing the power of AI in software development.
- 🎯 Autonomous Task Execution — Automate workflows, send emails, manage calendars, book flights, conduct research, and much more with your self-hosted AI assistant.
- 🧠 Persistent Long-Term Memory — FasterClaw remembers preferences, context, and history across all sessions, providing a truly proactive personal AI experience.
- 💬 Multi-Channel Access — Interact with your AI agent via WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage, Signal, and more, ensuring seamless integration into your daily communication.
- 🔧 Tool & Skill System — Extensible via a robust plugin/skill system (email, files, browser, terminal, smart home, and custom integrations), making FasterClaw a versatile AI automation platform.
- ⚡ Proactive Behavior — The intelligent heartbeat system keeps you notified of important events automatically, transforming FasterClaw into a truly proactive AI agent.
- 🛡️ Self-Hosted & Private — Runs securely on your machine, ensuring your data remains private. A privacy-first AI solution with no data leaving your control unless explicitly allowed.
- 🤖 Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) — Supports a wide range of LLMs including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, and various local LLMs like Llama and Mistral (via Ollama, LM Studio), offering ultimate flexibility for your open source AI agent.
- 🔄 Self-Extending & Adaptable — Capable of writing and installing new code and skills autonomously to solve novel problems, making it a truly adaptive AI assistant.
FasterClaw isn't just an open-source AI agent; it's a versatile platform ready to tackle a multitude of tasks, especially on low-cost hardware and edge devices. Here are some real-world applications:
- Smart Home Automation: Integrate with your smart devices to control lights, thermostats, and security systems using natural language commands, establishing a self-hosted smart home AI.
- Personal Productivity Assistant: Automate routine tasks like managing your inbox, scheduling appointments, setting reminders, and summarizing documents, acting as your dedicated proactive personal AI assistant.
- Multi-Channel Chatbot Deployment: Deploy custom AI chatbots on platforms like Discord or Telegram for community management, customer support, or personalized interactions. Build a Discord AI bot or a Telegram AI assistant with ease.
- IoT & Edge Device Management: Run complex AI workflows directly on a Raspberry Pi or other edge devices for local data processing, monitoring, and automated responses, proving its efficiency as an AI agent for Raspberry Pi.
- Developer Workflow Automation: Automate code deployment, run terminal commands, manage GitHub repositories, and integrate with CI/CD pipelines, serving as a powerful AI-powered developer tool.
- Research & Information Gathering: Instruct FasterClaw to browse the web, summarize articles, and gather information autonomously, making it an effective AI research assistant.
- Data Privacy & Security: For sensitive operations, leverage its self-hosted and privacy-first design to ensure all AI processing occurs locally, enhancing data security.
- Custom AI Skill Development: Utilize its self-extending capabilities to build entirely new, bespoke AI skills tailored to unique business or personal needs, fostering innovation in AI automation.
FasterClaw stands out with its foundation built entirely in the Go programming language. This strategic choice underpins its exceptional performance, efficiency, and portability, making it a leading Go-based AI agent framework.
- Blazing Speed & Concurrency: Go's inherent concurrency model (goroutines and channels) allows FasterClaw to handle multiple AI tasks and integrations simultaneously with unparalleled speed. This is crucial for a high-performance AI assistant that needs to be responsive and efficient.
- Minimal Resource Footprint: Go compiles to a single, small binary with no heavy runtime dependencies. This results in an ultra-lightweight AI agent (less than 10MB memory footprint), perfect for edge computing, Raspberry Pi AI projects, and low-cost hardware deployments.
- Cross-Platform Portability: A single Go binary runs seamlessly across various architectures (RISC-V, ARM, x86) and operating systems (macOS, Linux, Windows, VPS). This "build once, run anywhere" philosophy ensures FasterClaw is a truly portable AI solution.
- Simplified Deployment: With a single executable, deployment is drastically simplified. This contributes to FasterClaw's 400x faster startup time, making it an instant-on AI automation tool.
- Robust & Reliable: Go's strong typing and robust standard library contribute to a stable and reliable foundation for an open-source AI platform, minimizing crashes and ensuring consistent operation.
By leveraging the power of Go, FasterClaw delivers a fast, efficient, and scalable solution for anyone looking to deploy an autonomous AI agent on their own terms.
- Gateway — The local control plane intelligently routes messages, manages sessions, and handles long-term memory for your self-hosted AI assistant.
- LLM Brain — Utilizes powerful models (e.g., Claude Opus/Sonnet, GPT, Gemini, local LLMs) for advanced reasoning and autonomous task planning within your AI automation platform.
- Tools & Skills — Executes real-world actions through an extensible system of tools and skills (read/write files, send messages, run commands, smart home control, and more).
- Channels — Provides seamless interaction with your AI agent from any supported messaging application (WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, etc.).
- Heartbeat — A proactive system that performs periodic checks and delivers automated notifications, making FasterClaw a truly proactive AI.
Your personal AI assistant lives 24/7 on your hardware, always ready, always remembering, and always respecting your privacy.
Getting your FasterClaw open-source AI agent up and running is straightforward. For the easiest setup, we recommend using Docker.
# 1. Clone the FasterClaw AI agent repository
git clone https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw.git
cd openclaw
# 2. Follow the quickstart guide (Docker is recommended for the fastest setup)
docker compose up -d
# 3. Open the Control UI in your browser
# http://localhost:18789 (or your-ip:18789) — add your LLM API key to connect your AI model
# 4. Connect a messaging channel
# Follow in-app instructions to integrate with WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and other messaging platforms.
# For comprehensive documentation, visit: https://docs.openclaw.aiDetailed guides for various deployments and configurations of your autonomous AI agent: Quick Start | Docker Deployment | Mac M4 Optimization | Security Best Practices for AI Agents
FasterClaw is designed for maximum compatibility, making it a truly universal open-source AI platform.
- Operating Systems: Deploy your AI agent on macOS, Linux, Windows, Raspberry Pi, and various Virtual Private Servers (VPS).
- Messaging Channels: Seamlessly integrate and interact via WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage, Signal, and SMS (through various bridges). Build your Discord AI bot or Telegram AI assistant with ease.
- Large Language Models (LLMs): Supports a wide array of models, including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, and numerous local LLMs (Llama, Mistral, etc., via Ollama, LM Studio), providing unmatched flexibility for multi-LLM AI solutions.
- Tools & Services: Extend capabilities with integrations for Email (Gmail/Outlook), Calendar, Files, Terminal, Web Browsing, Smart Home devices, Todoist, Notion, Spotify, Philips Hue, and many more.
- Extensibility: Leverage the Molthub / OpenClaw Skills Registry for a growing collection of community-contributed plugins and AI skills.
FasterClaw empowers you with powerful system access, emphasizing the critical importance of security and privacy for your self-hosted AI agent.
- Local AI Processing: Your data stays entirely on your machine, ensuring a privacy-first AI solution where personal information never leaves your control.
- Granular Permissions: Fine-grained control over permissions for each skill and tool, allowing you to manage exactly what your AI agent can access and do.
- Comprehensive Audit Logs: All actions performed by FasterClaw are meticulously logged, providing transparency and accountability for your autonomous AI.
- Advanced Sandboxing Options: Implement robust sandboxing to isolate tasks and enhance the security posture of your AI automation platform.
- Warning: Always exercise caution. Only grant access to skills and tools you explicitly trust. We strongly recommend reviewing community security guides and best practices for deploying AI agents.
For a deeper understanding: AI Security Model | Best Practices for Self-Hosted AI
Become part of a thriving community dedicated to building the future of personal AI agents and open-source AI development.
- 🌐 Official Website: Explore more at https://openclaw.ai – your hub for all things FasterClaw.
- 📖 Comprehensive Documentation: Dive into guides and API references at https://docs.openclaw.ai to master your AI agent.
- 💬 Discord Community: Join our vibrant community for support, discussions, and AI skill development. Check openclaw.ai for invitation links.
- 🔍 Skills Registry: Discover and contribute to a vast library of AI plugins and skills at https://clawdhub.com (or molthub).
- Awesome List: Find curated resources and examples at https://github.com/VoltAgent/awesome-openclaw-skills.
Star ⭐ the repo if you're excited about autonomous open-source AI and joining a rapidly growing project!
We warmly welcome contributions from developers, AI enthusiasts, and users alike. Help us shape the future of open-source AI agents through code, new skills, documentation improvements, bug reports, and innovative ideas.
- Fork the repository and create your feature branch.
- Implement your changes, adhering to best practices for Go development and AI automation.
- Open a Pull Request with a clear, concise description of your contribution.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines on contributing to this Go-based AI project.
FasterClaw is released under the MIT License — see LICENSE for details.
Note: Individual dependencies and AI skills may carry their own specific licenses.
- Creator: Peter Steinberger (@steipete)
- Inspiration: Building upon early experiments, including Clawdbot and Moltbot, leading to the advanced OpenClaw and now FasterClaw AI agent.
- Community Support: Immense gratitude to the explosive open-source AI community that has made this one of the fastest-growing open-source AI projects ever.
🦞 Let's build the future of personal AI automation — together!