What is pycoclaw?

PycoClaw turns a cheap microcontroller chip, the ESP32, into a small AI agent that can plan, remember things, and act on the physical world, all running directly on the chip itself rather than in the cloud. The hardware costs around five dollars and uses tiny amounts of power, measured in milliwatts instead of watts. The agent runs on a MicroPython based core called PFC, which aims to match the features of a project called OpenClaw but built to run on a microcontroller instead of a full computer. It gives the device a hybrid memory system that combines simple keyword search with vector based search, both running on the device itself. You can chat with it through Telegram or a companion app called Scripto Studio, with Discord support planned. It can also read and write files, run commands, browse the web, read sensors, generate images, run scheduled tasks, connect to other tools through MCP, and control real world hardware over CAN, I2C, SPI, GPIO, USB, or a small display. Skills, meaning extra abilities the agent can learn, are loaded at runtime from an online marketplace called ScriptoHub, so the device does not need to be reflashed every time you want to add a new capability. The device can also spawn smaller helper agents to handle delegated tasks, wake itself up on a schedule, and save its state to flash memory if the battery is about to die. To get started, you need a supported ESP32 board with enough flash storage and memory, then flash the firmware through a one click browser tool, and manage the device afterward through the Scripto Studio web app. It currently runs in production on the ESP32-S3, ESP32-P4, and ESP32-C6 chips, with support for another chip family still in progress. The project is released under the MIT license.