I built PyroClaw, a lightweight personal AI assistant that runs entirely locally on your machine. It’s currently in beta. The idea came from wanting a simple AI automation tool that runs locally, doesn’t require API credits, and keeps all data private.
PyroClaw runs on Ollama with LLaMA 3.1:8B and focuses on practical automation tasks. Right now it can generate and send emails, rewrite and summarize text, analyze SQL databases, produce project summaries, rename files intelligently, summarize flight information, handle custom user tasks, and supports multiple chat sessions in a GUI so you can run many tasks at the same time.
I’m experimenting with a task marketplace where anyone can develop and submit new tasks to extend PyroClaw’s ecosystem. People could build tasks like developer productivity tools, Slack or Telegram messaging tasks, file system automation, research summarization, data analysis workflows, API integrations, or any other specific task. Documentation for using PyroClaw and developing new tasks is coming soon.
In the future, I plan to add workflow automation for multi-step AI tasks, support for different LLM models (local or external, like Gemini), and a larger ecosystem of community-created tasks. The current beta is Windows-only, with macOS and Linux builds planned next.
I’d love feedback from HN: what automation tasks would you want locally, how could a task marketplace be most useful, and any ideas to improve local AI workflows?
Hi HN
I built PyroClaw, a lightweight personal AI assistant that runs entirely locally on your machine. It’s currently in beta. The idea came from wanting a simple AI automation tool that runs locally, doesn’t require API credits, and keeps all data private.
PyroClaw runs on Ollama with LLaMA 3.1:8B and focuses on practical automation tasks. Right now it can generate and send emails, rewrite and summarize text, analyze SQL databases, produce project summaries, rename files intelligently, summarize flight information, handle custom user tasks, and supports multiple chat sessions in a GUI so you can run many tasks at the same time.
I’m experimenting with a task marketplace where anyone can develop and submit new tasks to extend PyroClaw’s ecosystem. People could build tasks like developer productivity tools, Slack or Telegram messaging tasks, file system automation, research summarization, data analysis workflows, API integrations, or any other specific task. Documentation for using PyroClaw and developing new tasks is coming soon.
In the future, I plan to add workflow automation for multi-step AI tasks, support for different LLM models (local or external, like Gemini), and a larger ecosystem of community-created tasks. The current beta is Windows-only, with macOS and Linux builds planned next.
I’d love feedback from HN: what automation tasks would you want locally, how could a task marketplace be most useful, and any ideas to improve local AI workflows?
Thanks!