piclaw

PiClaw stuffs the Pi Coding Agent runtime into a Docker container, throws on a streaming web UI, and calls it a day. Multi-provider LLM support, built-in Ghostty terminal, code editor, document viewers, draw.io, kanban boards, VNC client, and MCP access — all behind one docker run command. The tool surface is effectively infinite thanks to a growing catalog of community add-ons covering Proxmox, Portainer, SSH, and whatever else someone felt like wiring up.

A Bun process embeds the pi agent runtime and manages all agent interactions, settings, etc. All pi extensions and skills work, and the runtime extends the extension contract in such a way that almost _everything_ inside the workspace is, essentially, a plugin. State is managed with pi's JSONL files, but primarily using a SQLite database that tracks all sessions and can store some media for easy retrieval later via FTS.

The web UI communicates with the agent over SSE for real-time indicators, and the agent tool surface, although larger than pi's, is layered: a small always-active baseline, with additional tools activated on demand via list_tools and activate_tools — keeping token usage low by both limiting the tool surface and compressing their outputs, which enables the use of literally hundreds of tools with very little context overhead.

As creature comforts, you get a workspace tree, pluggable viewers, a ghostty-web terminal and a VNC viewer (which I typically need to access SBCs and X apps inside the piclaw host, plus a nice vim-capable editor with Obsidian-like Markdown rendering, plus an encrypted keychain stores secrets encrypted with AES-GCM.

Memory management leverages dream memory consolidation (which runs nightly) to synthesise notes from all sessions and keep long-running workflows coherent.