picoclaw

Installer for the cmdop CLI — one small binary: no gateway, no broker, no database server.

pip install picoclaw
picoclaw

That's it. picoclaw detects your platform, downloads the cmdop binary, verifies it against the published checksums, installs it, and hands over.

The overhead of running an agent is usually not the agent. It is the four supporting services that have to be up before it answers at all.

cmdop collapses that into one executable that is the agent, the relay, the local server and the console together. This package installs it, checksum-verified, with no dependencies of its own.

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Count the moving parts

One process to start, one file to upgrade, one directory to back up. Nothing to keep in sync between services, because there are no other services.

That is also what makes it reasonable on a small machine — a spare laptop, a VPS with modest memory, a single-board computer — rather than only on a host provisioned for a stack.

What is cmdop

One executable that is the agent, the relay, the local server and the web console at once. There is no gateway, backend, database server or broker to stand up — you add one binary to a machine you already own.

• run an AI agent on your own machine, with your own tools
• reach it from anywhere: terminal, files, remote execution
• connect machines into a fleet
• works with Claude Code and other agent engines under the hood

Full documentation: docs.cmdop.com

Usage

picoclaw                    # install cmdop (if needed), then run it
picoclaw --install-only     # install, don't hand over
picoclaw --prefix ~/bin     # choose the install directory
picoclaw --force            # reinstall even if already present
picoclaw --quiet            # print only the installed path
picoclaw -- --help          # everything after `--` goes to cmdop

Default install directory is ~/.local/bin (%LOCALAPPDATA%\cmdop\bin on Windows). No sudo, no system directories.

What it does, precisely

1. Detects your OS and architecture.
2. Fetches SHA256SUMS from install.cmdop.com.
3. Downloads the matching binary to a temporary file.
4. Verifies the SHA-256 against the published checksum. On mismatch it aborts and installs nothing.
5. Moves the verified binary into the install directory and marks it executable.
6. Runs it.

Supported: macOS (Apple Silicon, Intel), Linux (x64, arm64), Windows (x64).

What it does not do

• No side effects at install time. pip install picoclaw only unpacks files. Nothing is downloaded or executed until you run picoclaw.
• No network access on import. import picoclaw touches nothing.
• No telemetry. The package sends no analytics, ever.
• No dependencies. Standard library only, so there is nothing to conflict with what you already have installed.

Python API

The installer is importable if you would rather script it:

import picoclaw

target = picoclaw.detect()
print(target.label, target.asset)

result = picoclaw.install()
print(result.path, result.sha256)

picoclaw.install() raises picoclaw.InstallError with a user-facing message on any failure, and picoclaw.UnsupportedPlatform when there is no published binary for the current machine.

Links

• Website — https://cmdop.com
• Documentation — https://docs.cmdop.com
• Downloads — https://cmdop.com/download

License

MIT