NakedClaw

Your own personal AI assistant. AI that rewrites itself.

NakedClaw is a self-improving AI agent that runs as a background daemon on your machine. Chat with it from your terminal, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Slack — and it can edit its own source code to add features, fix bugs, and grow.

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Why NakedClaw?

OpenClaw is great, but it's wearing a lot of clothes:

• A macOS app (204 Swift files, code signing, notarization, DMG packaging)
• An iOS app (28 Swift files, Xcode provisioning)
• An Android app (63 Kotlin files, Gradle build)
• A web dashboard (113 files, Lit components, Vite, Playwright)
• 127 npm dependencies including sharp, pdfjs, playwright, AWS Bedrock SDK
• 617 documentation files + a full Chinese translation pipeline
• 7 CI/CD workflows, Docker images, 50+ release scripts
• 451,926 lines of code across 2,581 files

NakedClaw strips all of that away. No Mac app. No web server. No mobile apps. No 32 channel plugins. No Docker. No CI. Just a daemon, a CLI, and two messaging channels. ~3,000 lines of TypeScript.

All the good functionality. None of the clothes. Truly naked.

Features

• Memory — all chats saved as markdown in memory/, searchable, with memory.md loaded every session
• Heartbeat — configurable cron that triggers the agent periodically
• Scheduler — natural language scheduling ("remind me at 10", "every day at 9am")
• Multiple terminals — open as many nakedclaw sessions as you want
• Config hot-reload — edit nakedclaw.json5 and heartbeat/scheduler update automatically
• Skills — NakedClaw reaches its long, naked claw into the openclaw skill catalog and shamelessly steals every single skill. 100% compatible with all openclaw skills — turns out you don't need clothes to be talented

Access it via the terminal

Quick start

bun install
bun link

nakedclaw setup     # authenticate (Anthropic or OpenAI)
nakedclaw start     # start the daemon
nakedclaw           # chat

Auth

NakedClaw supports multiple authentication methods:

Anthropic:

• Setup token (recommended) — run claude setup-token in another terminal and paste the result
• API key — paste your sk-ant-api03-... key directly

OpenAI:

• API key — paste your sk-... key
• Codex (ChatGPT subscription) — browser-based OAuth login, no API key needed

CLI

nakedclaw              chat with the agent
nakedclaw setup        authenticate (Anthropic or OpenAI)
nakedclaw models       interactive model/provider picker
nakedclaw models set <provider>/<model>  set model directly
nakedclaw start        start the background daemon
nakedclaw stop         stop the daemon
nakedclaw restart      restart the daemon
nakedclaw status       show daemon status
nakedclaw logs         tail daemon logs
nakedclaw sessions     interactive session browser (live TUI)

nakedclaw skills       list skills with eligibility
nakedclaw skills sync  fetch skill catalog from GitHub
nakedclaw skills install <name>  install a skill's deps
nakedclaw skills info <name>     show skill details
nakedclaw help         show help

Manage and view sessions in terminal

Channels

Terminal is always available — just run nakedclaw. For messaging channels, use the connect wizard:

WhatsApp

nakedclaw connect wa

Walks you through it — enables WhatsApp in config, shows a QR code, you scan it, done. Auth is saved in .wa-auth/ so you only scan once. Reconnects automatically.

Telegram

nakedclaw connect tg

Prompts for your bot token (get one from @BotFather — send /newbot). Verifies the token, enables Telegram in config, and offers to save the token to .env. Then just nakedclaw restart.

Slack

nakedclaw connect slack

Prompts for your Bot Token (xoxb-...) and App Token (xapp-...). To get these:

1. Create an app at api.slack.com/apps
2. Enable Socket Mode (gives you the xapp- token)
3. Add Bot Token Scopes: chat:write, app_mentions:read, im:history, im:read, im:write
4. Install to workspace (gives you the xoxb- token)

The wizard verifies both tokens, enables Slack in config, and saves to .env.

Access control

Each channel has an allowFrom list in nakedclaw.json5. Leave it empty to allow everyone, or restrict:

"telegram": { "enabled": true, "allowFrom": ["@yourusername"] }
"whatsapp": { "enabled": true, "allowFrom": ["+1234567890"] }

Architecture

~/.nakedclaw/           state directory
  credentials.json      auth credentials
  daemon.pid            PID file
  daemon.sock           Unix socket (daemon <-> CLI)
  logs/daemon.log       daemon logs

nakedclaw.json5         project config
skills/                 stolen openclaw skills (cached locally)
sessions/               JSONL transcripts per sender
memory/                 markdown chat history + memory.md index

Daemon runs in background. CLI clients connect via Unix socket using NDJSON protocol. Multiple terminals supported simultaneously.