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zeroclaw-labs / zeroclaw

zeroclaw

Fast, small, and fully autonomous AI personal assistant infrastructure, any OS, any platform — deploy anywhere, swap anything 🦀

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33.3KGitHub stars
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Fast, small, and fully autonomous AI personal assistant infrastructure, any OS, any platform — deploy anywhere, swap anything 🦀

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-02-17 13:18:48 UTC to 2026-03-30 07:22:27 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012342026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 commentsFeb 162026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 92026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 30

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Feb 162026-02-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC413
Feb 232026-02-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 22026-03-02 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 92026-03-09 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 162026-03-16 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 232026-03-23 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 302026-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-06 00:00:00 UTC110

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snthpy·Mar 16, 2026Submission

Ask HN: AI Agents vs. Gateways vs. Harnesses

Hi, I'd like to get everyone's take on the different components in the AI Agents ecoysystem. I find the current terminology quite confusing as it's not always obvious what I'll be actually getting when I examine the available options. A lot of things get called Agents, but that term seems hard to define as it often refers to overlapping functionality. To me, agents seem to be currently composed of the following components: ## Harnesses - Adds UI and system instructions around an LLM and may also augment it with tools such as memory, tool calls, etc... - Examples are Claude Code, Code, Gemini CLI, pi.dev, ... ## Gateways - These connect agents to your communication tool of choice, e.g. Whatsapp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, ... - Examples are OpenClaw and Nanoclaw ## Sandboxes - Isolated environments where Agents can run with limited or audit
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able capabilities - Examples can be from physical ones like separate Mac Minis to docker-agent, agent-sandbox, localsandbox, ... This then takes us to *Agents*: ## Agents - AI Systems capable of exercising some agency, i.e. non-zero amounts of autonomous behaviour without a human-in-the-loop. - These usually combine the following components: - **LLM**: to provide the intelligence/reasoning/decision making - **Harness**: to steer the behaviour and enable long-term coherence of actions beyond the limits of current context windows - **Gateway**: to interact with humans and/or other agents - **Sandbox**: that aims to limit the capabilities of the Agent to a sanctioned set of safe operations for the agent to execute autonomously. My issue is that when I look at the available options, it's generally not clear to me which components I am getting: - https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw: Typescript, The OG, one-stop solution, easiest to install but apparently a bit of a Frankenmonster and complex - https://github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw: Typescript, gaining popularity, minimalist, implementation seems reliant on Claude Code to handle install and configuration - https://github.com/sipeed/picoclaw: Golang - https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw: Rust - https://github.com/nullclaw/nullclaw: Zig - https://nemoclaw.bot/: By Nvidia, claims to be open source "based", but I couldn't find a repo What I would really like is to be able to assemble my own stack of Sandbox + Gateway + Harness + LLM. Thoughts/recommendations?
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