Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

Summary

My personal Claude assistant that runs securely in Apple containers. Lightweight and built to be understood and customized for your own needs. Why This Exists OpenClaw is an impressive project with a great vision. But I can't sleep well running software I don't understand with access to my life. OpenClaw has 52+ modules, 8 config management files, 45+ dependencies, and abstractions for 15 channel providers. Security is application-level (allowlists, pairing codes) rather than OS isolation. Everything runs in one Node process with shared memory. NanoClaw gives you the same core functionality in a codebase you can understand in 8 minutes. One process. A handful of files. Agents run in actual Linux containers with filesystem isolation, not behind permission checks. Quick Start git clone https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw.git cd nanoclaw claude Then run /setup . Claude Code handles everything: dependencies, authentication, container setup, service configuration. Philosophy Small enough to understand. One process, a few source files. No microservices, no message queues, no abstraction layers. Have Claude Code walk you through it. Secure by isolation. Agents run in Linux containers (Apple Container). They can only see what's explicitly mounted. Bash access is safe because commands run inside the container, not on your Mac. Built for one user. This isn't a framework. It's working software that fits my exact needs. You fork it and have Claude Code make it match your exact needs. Customization = code changes. No configuration sprawl. Want different behavior? Modify the code. The codebase is small enough that this is safe. AI-native. No installation wizard; Claude Code guides setup. No monitoring dashboard; ask Claude what's happening. No debugging tools; describe the problem, Claude fixes it. Skills over features. Contributors shouldn't add features (e.g. support for Telegram) to the codebase. Instead, they contribute skills like /add-telegram that transform your fork. You...