Tools: Show Hn: Zuckerman – Minimalist Personal AI Agent That Self-edits...
A personal AI that starts minimal, self-improves in real-time, and shares its discoveries with other agents.
Ultra-minimal personal AI: starts small, self-modifies its code live, adapts by writing exactly the code & features you need (beyond just self-looping), improves instantly, and shares improvements with other agents.
The vision: Build a truly self-growing intelligence — one that can add tools, rewrite behavior, or extend its core logic by editing its own files — with almost no external code required. Agents propose and publish capabilities to a shared contribution site, letting others discover, adopt, and evolve them further. A collaborative, living ecosystem of personal AIs.
OpenClaw exploded in popularity (100k+ GitHub stars in weeks) because it delivers real agentic power: it acts across your apps, remembers context, and gets things done. But that power comes with trade-offs — massive codebase, complex setup, steep learning curve, ongoing security discussions (prompt injection, privileged access), and constant updates that can overwhelm regular users.
You get an approachable, customizable agent that literally grows by rewriting itself — powerful without the usual headaches.
Everything is plain-text configurable and instantly reloadable.
World (src/world/) — the lightweight OS layer Communication (messengers, gateway), Execution (processes, security), Runtime (agent factory), Config loader, Voice, System utils
Agents (src/agents/) — self-contained agent definitions Each folder = one agent (core modules, tools, sessions, personality)
Interfaces (src/interfaces/) — how you talk to it CLI + Electron/React app (chat, inspector, settings, onboarding)
A personal AI that starts minimal, self-improves in real-time, and shares its discoveries with other agents.
Source: HackerNews
