indieclaw 0.1.36

Self-hosted Telegram AI agent. 10 tools, skills, subconscious, CLI learning.

IndieClaw

Personal AI agent on Telegram. Self-hosted, powered by Claude.

Requires: An Anthropic API key or Claude Pro/Max subscription. IndieClaw uses Claude as its reasoning engine — you need one or the other to run it.

Install

pip install indieclaw

Or with uv:

uv tool install indieclaw

Then set up:

indieclaw setup

Setup asks for your Telegram bot token, user ID, and Claude auth. Get a bot token from @BotFather, then send /start to your bot — it will show your Telegram user ID.

Run

indieclaw start       # background daemon
indieclaw start -f    # foreground
indieclaw chat        # interactive TUI (no Telegram needed)
indieclaw logs -f     # stream logs
indieclaw stop
indieclaw restart

indieclaw chat launches a terminal UI for chatting directly with your agent — useful for testing, debugging, or when you don't want to go through Telegram.

On Linux with systemd, indieclaw setup installs and starts the service automatically.

Commands

Command
/status	Model, tools, token usage
/model	Switch Claude model
/effort	Switch thinking effort
/reset	Clear conversation history
/restart	Restart the bot
/update	Pull latest and restart
/cc <prompt>	Live Claude Code session (streaming)

Workspace

Everything lives in ~/.indieclaw/:

File	Purpose
SOUL.md	Agent identity and instructions
USER.md	Your profile (name, timezone, preferences)
MEMORY.md	Persistent memory across sessions
crons.yaml	Scheduled jobs
skills/*/SKILL.md	Skill docs injected into system prompt
tools/*.py	Custom tools — hot-loaded, no restart needed
sessions/*.jsonl	Conversation logs
handover.md	State snapshot across restarts
subconscious.yaml	Background reflection threads

Override the workspace path: INDIECLAW_HOME=/path/to/dir

Subconscious

A background reflection loop that runs every 2 hours. The agent reviews open threads, recent conversations, and memory — then decides whether to act (send a message, spawn a task) or stay quiet.

Threads are tracked in ~/.indieclaw/subconscious.yaml. The agent can add, resolve, or keep threads across cycles. Disable it or change the interval in ~/.indieclaw/config.yaml:

subconscious_enabled: false
subconscious_interval_hours: 4

Custom tools

Drop a .py file in ~/.indieclaw/tools/ with a SCHEMA dict and execute() function. Available on the next message, no restart needed.

Update

indieclaw update       # from terminal
/update               # from Telegram

Saves a handover note before restarting and picks up where it left off.

License

MIT