nextclaw

NextClaw

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Your long-term personal AI partner.

NextClaw's mission is to be a good long-term partner to you. We are building toward a 1.0 that understands you, takes useful initiative, and continuously improves itself. Today, you can use it to discuss questions, analyze material, complete work, and follow up through scheduled tasks.

From one request to a usable result, without losing the work in between.

Download & Install · Explore Use Cases · Read the Docs

Open source · Local-first · macOS, Windows, Linux, Docker, and cloud VMs

Toward 1.0

The goal for 1.0 is to deliver a long-term AI partner that understands you, takes useful initiative, and continuously improves itself. Initiative includes independent analysis, planning, sharing relevant information, and starting a conversation, as well as acting within your authorization.

Stage	Planned delivery
Understand you and your goals	Organize user background, review and correct memory, manage personal goals and plans, and use current understanding in new conversations and background work
Proactive analysis and conversation	Identify ongoing interests, analyze and plan in the background, control timing, start and continue discussions, and act and follow up when appropriate
Continuous self-improvement	Reflect on results and feedback, apply experience, inspect its effects, and correct, disable, or reverse unsuitable changes
Reliable long-term use	Improve setup, capability status, recovery, and upgrades; pass core acceptance cases and continuous user trials

This is planned scope, building on existing memory, scheduling, conversations, and skills. Full acceptance testing is not complete, and no release date is set. The sections below describe how to use the current product.

Public roadmap · Vision

Repository planning documents (Chinese): Feature development table · 1.0 definition and acceptance cases · Current capabilities and gaps

Why NextClaw

NextClaw also treats the nextclaw CLI as a first-class way to work. Many core operations can be used from a terminal, script, CI job, or another Agent, with machine-readable output where supported.

New installations are ready for the first task without entering an API key. The built-in free trial uses a public gateway; limits and models may change, and sensitive or confidential data should not be sent through it.

What You Can Finish

• Research and compare — collect pages, notes, and references, then turn them into a brief, source list, or comparison table.
• Analyze and visualize data — gather data from websites, CSV files, or spreadsheets, clean it, draw charts, and write the conclusion.
• Draft useful documents — shape source material and rough notes into reports, articles, proposals, release notes, or weekly updates.
• Process local files — inspect, rename, extract, classify, and summarize documents without losing the task context.
• Build small tools for yourself — turn a repeated job into a script, local app, dashboard, or reusable workflow.
• Keep recurring work moving — receive requests from chat apps, run scheduled briefs or checks, and send results back to the right channel.

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Product Tour

Turn source material into a result you can inspect

Start with source material, let the Agent organize and visualize it, then inspect the result beside the conversation. Source files and project documents remain available in the same workspace.

Let AI deliver important results to you

When scheduled work, a background Agent, or a long-running monitor finishes, NextClaw can deliver the report to your inbox. Read it later, manage it with the rest of your results, or continue the conversation with the full context.

Choose the Agent Runtime for each task

Keep an Agent's identity, workspace, memory, and skills, then run the task with Native, Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, or Hermes. Choose the runtime when starting a task and keep the rest of the workspace unchanged.

Inspect real files beside the conversation

Open code, Markdown, HTML, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without losing the task that produced them.

Keep the small apps you build

Build a page with an Agent, run it beside the conversation, and keep it as a Panel App you can open and improve later.

More of the workspace

Install NextClaw

Desktop App

The desktop app is the easiest way to start on macOS, Windows, or Linux.

Download the latest stable desktop release

npm

Install Node.js LTS first, then run:

npm install -g nextclaw
nextclaw start

Open http://127.0.0.1:55667 and start with the built-in free-trial model. Connect your own provider when you need it.

If npm is unavailable, install or reinstall Node.js LTS and reopen the terminal. On a remote host, port 55667 serves plain HTTP. Use it directly only for a quick check; terminate HTTPS with Nginx or Caddy for regular access.

nextclaw stop

Docker

For a long-running server or cloud VM deployment:

curl -fsSL https://nextclaw.io/install-docker.sh | bash

See the Docker deployment guide for reverse proxy, domain, and remote access setup. You can compare every supported path on the download and install page.

For the current tested server baseline, idle measurements, and factors that increase memory during active work, see Runtime Resource Usage.

Models, Channels, and Tools

• Models — built-in free-trial access, plus OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, MiniMax, Moonshot, DashScope, Zhipu, AiHubMix, vLLM, and custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
• Messaging channels — Weixin, Feishu/Lark, QQ, DingTalk, WeCom, Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, and email.
• Capabilities — skills, MCP servers, CLI tools, browser control, local files, Panel Apps, and scheduled tasks.
• Local control — configuration, conversations, and credentials stay in the environment you control. Connected providers and channels receive the data you send through them.

See all integrations

Develop From Source

From the repository root:

pnpm install
pnpm dev start

The development stack prints its local URLs in the terminal and uses ~/.nextclaw by default. Set NEXTCLAW_HOME=/path/to/home to use an isolated data directory.

To run only one side:

pnpm dev:backend
pnpm dev:frontend

See the developer command reference for local source-runtime checks, the manual runtime-update harness, platform stacks, Docker, and validation commands.

To refresh the repository and website screenshot set:

pnpm run screenshots:refresh

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Configuration
• Model Selection