About ZeroClaw.net
An independent site documenting the ZeroClaw AI agent runtime — what it does, how to run it, and where it fits against the alternatives.
We are not the ZeroClaw project. ZeroClaw.net is a third-party editorial site. We did not build ZeroClaw, we do not maintain it, we do not distribute it, and we have no affiliation with ZeroClaw Labs, OpenClaw or PicoClaw. Everything here is independent documentation written by users, in the same spirit as a community wiki. For the software itself — releases, issues, roadmap — go to the official project repository.
Why this site exists
ZeroClaw is a young project, and young projects have thin documentation. The README answers what the runtime is; it does not answer what happens when the build gets killed on a Raspberry Pi, which entries in a command allowlist quietly grant code execution, or whether the memory figures survive contact with your hardware.
That gap is what this site is for. We work through the things you hit after the quick start: configuration in detail, the security model and its limits, installation on platforms the official docs treat briefly, and honest comparisons with the alternatives.
How we work
We test what we publish
Commands and configurations in our guides are run before they are published, not transcribed from documentation. Where we have not been able to verify something ourselves — an unofficial platform, a configuration key that changed between versions — we say so in the text rather than presenting it as tested.
Benchmarks are directional, and we label them
The performance figures on this site come from quick local runs on specific hardware with specific build flags, and we state the machine and the date alongside them. They are reliable as orders of magnitude and unreliable as precise numbers. Anyone presenting agent runtime benchmarks as exact — including us — should be read with that in mind.
We write about limitations
A guide that only lists advantages is marketing. Our comparisons include the cases where ZeroClaw is the wrong choice: smaller ecosystem, younger interfaces, and the fact that a 5MB runtime does not make a local language model any smaller. If efficiency is not a constraint you actually have, the efficient option is not automatically the right one.
Corrections
Software moves and guides go stale. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us which page and what you observed instead, and we will fix it. Corrections take priority over new content. Reach us through the contact page.
How this site is funded
ZeroClaw.net carries third-party advertising, which pays for hosting and the time that goes into the guides. Advertisers have no input into what we publish or how we assess any project, and no article is sponsored. Our privacy policy sets out what data advertising partners collect and how to opt out.
What we cannot help with
We cannot fix bugs in ZeroClaw, act on feature requests, comment on the roadmap, or speak for the maintainers. None of that is ours to answer. Bug reports and feature requests belong in the official project’s issue tracker, where the people who can act on them are.
Start here
- What is ZeroClaw? — the concepts, assuming no prior knowledge
- Installation guide — every route, on every platform
- Security model — read before granting an agent real permissions
- ZeroClaw vs OpenClaw vs PicoClaw — the full comparison
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