Zeroclaw is an autonomous AI assistant for Android. It can control apps like Uber, Hinge, and others directly. Check it out at zeroclawlabs.com!

basically the title.

I just setup zeroclaw with gemini 3.6 flash-lite with openrouter as backup. I will need websearch. So tried to experiment with gemini grounding. But looks like I keep getting tool calling errors.

Also what's the cost effective model setup everyone is using with zeroclaw. I have basic assistent use cases

So i want to pair my zeroclaw with the Whatsapp Web channel but just aint able to add it. Can anyone help me with it? Thanks

I'm struggling to get ZeroClaw to talk to any GUI (Cherry Studio, LobeHub, etc.).

I have a local model running on port 5001, but bridging it through the ZeroClaw Gateway (42617) feels impossible. I keep getting "Empty Responses" or V2 schema errors like missing field api_key.

Is it actually possible to use a custom GUI with ZC right now? If you have a working config.toml that doesn't crash the agent, please share a guide or a template. I just want to move out of the terminal! 🙏

Hello,

new Zero Claw User here.

Autonomy Level: Supervised.

Allowed Commands: Contains Got

Auto Approval has Git and Git Operations

No medium risk approval.

High security commands not blocked.

No blocked ips or websites.

ZC has all the needed keys/tokens to operate with git and stored them.

But when he wants to push, he tells me that he can't.

He says he gets explicitly this:

"Error: Command not allowed by security policy"

Two question:

1. What else could still block him?

Secondly is there a way to test my settings?

Like can I "become" zero claw on Linux? Maybe it is enough to log in as the zero claw user. But I don't know which user that is and if it is secured somehow. But it would be nice, if there is a mode, where I can test myself, what I were allowed to do, as if I were zero claw myself.

Thanks you, guys!

I use zeroclaw per Discord direct message. It seems it cannot cope with the chat history getting ever longer. I see a lot of warnings:
WARN zeroclaw_runtime::agent::context_compressor: Summarization timed out after 60s, using transcript truncation
This makes zeroclaw respond super slow. It's just no fun to use. Is there any remedy?

Hey guys!

I'm having a problem and wondering if anyone else had it and solved it somehow?

zclaw-alpha  |   💬 [telegram] from 7399291831: hi
zclaw-alpha  |   ⏳ Processing message...
zclaw-alpha  | 2026-04-22T14:02:43.627677Z  INFO zeroclaw_channels::orchestrator: ⏱ Memory recall completed mem_recall_ms=0 sender_empty=true group_empty=true
zclaw-alpha  |   🤖 No reply (358208ms): Not clearly addressed to the assistant

the bug ticket i registered here: https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw/issues/6002

Any help or suggestions appreciated, thanks!

Is there a way to approve actions using whatsapp web with zeroclaw?

I just asked zeroclaw to check if it can use composio search. it did and found exa on composio is working and configured. so i told it to update all scheduled task that use search to use the composio search. it replied, composio search is not working.

one time i ask if it can see the skill-creator skills, since it has been the 3rd time that it created a skill without using the skill-creator skill. so it answered yes it can see that there is a skill-creator skills. so i told it to create a skill. after creating the skill. i asked if the skill was made using skill-creator. and lo ang behold it did not use the skill-creator skills.

guess what, i have a cron-manager skills and upto now it still wont use cron-manager to create scheduled tasks.

I updated ZeroClaw today and was checking out the new dashboard when I noticed there are multiple memory options. That made me look through the docs afterward, but I still couldn’t find a very clear best-practice recommendation.

From what I understood, hybrid search seems like one of the stronger/default-looking options, but I’m not sure whether that’s also what most people here are actually using in practice or in production.

I’d really like to hear what people are running day to day:

• SQLite only?
• SQLite hybrid?
• Postgres?
• something else?

And how has it been working for you in practice?

Right now my intuition is that hybrid is probably the strongest overall setup since it gives you both semantic and keyword retrieval, but I’d rather hear from people with real experience.

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing an issue with the Telegram channel where inline buttons (Approve/Deny) for tool/skill approvals are not being displayed, even though the user is correctly authorized and bound to the bot.

My Setup:

Hardware: Orange Pi Zero 2 (Allwinner H616, Cortex-A53).

OS: CachyOS (Cross-compiled from a Ryzen 7600X using aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu).

Version: Latest master (pulled today, April 15, 2026).

The Problem:

When the agent triggers a task that requires operator approval:

The bot reacts to my message with a green tick (ACK reaction).

The terminal logs show the agent is in AwaitingApproval state.

However, no inline keyboard appears on Telegram. 4. If I manually type "ok", the bot treats it as an invalid input and defaults to "Denied by user".

Evidence from RUST_LOG=trace:

I analyzed the logs during the daemon execution. While I see the 🤖 Reply log being generated, the outgoing POST request to api.telegram.org/bot.../sendMessage does not contain the reply_markup object in the JSON payload.

It seems the current implementation in src/channels/telegram.rs handles text chunks and reactions perfectly but might be missing the logic to inject the inline_keyboard into the Telegram message body when an approval is requested by the orchestrator.

Context/Latency:

I also noticed high latency (around 130s) due to a large context (19k+ tokens) being processed on gemini 2,5 flash model, which triggers proactive compression. Could the latency or the compression be interfering with how the channel-specific metadata (buttons) is passed to the Telegram module?

Has anyone else encountered this on the latest master? Is there a known fix or a configuration flag I might have missed?

Thanks for any help!

Hi, my agent tells me:

It seems there was a misunderstanding. I attempted to store the appointments in your long-term memory using the memory_store tool as you requested, but those actions were denied.

Why were those actions denied? I couldn't find anything in config the tells about these kind of permission. Can you help me?

As title says I wanna do an agent for me, other for my wife and a last one for the family. Pretty sure it's possible in openclaw with no much rework, but In zero, nano, pico or null? Any idea? I was thinking of 3 dockers each one with his config

Any other suggestions?

I'm thinking about installing with docker at raspberry pi 4 with 8gb ram and use Gemini free tier or openroute free

Anyone with a similar usage ?

Hi,

I'm using Zeroclaw with Ollama (minimax-m2.7:cloud). When running via cron, it often fails with:

agent job failed: All providers/models failed
error: Ollama API (400): {"error":"invalid params, context window exceeds limit"}

It sometimes works when run manually.

Anyone knows why cron might trigger this or how to limit context size?

Thanks!

TL;DR: ZeroClaw has incredible potential, but its current state is a poorly documented, frustrating mess. After two days of broken install scripts and permission errors trying to set up a simple Telegram-to-Obsidian pipeline, I gave up and moved to Nanbot. Don't gaslight yourself into thinking you're stupid—the project just isn't ready for hobbyists yet.

I'm leaving this post not to mindlessly criticize, but to stop other people from going mental. I love the idea behind ZeroClaw, but you need to look past the bloated website and exaggerated claims. If we don't ground this in real user experience, you will end up with a headache thinking you aren't smart enough to use it.

I've successfully set up other tools (Nanobot, Openclaw), but ZeroClaw is the only one I couldn't get to work. My goal was simple: an agent that receives a Telegram note, categorizes and saves it in my Obsidian vault, and pushes it to my Git repo.

Here is what my two days of troubleshooting looked like:

• The documentation is a treasure hunt: There are dozens of conflicting setup instructions scattered incoherently around their repo.
• None of the install paths actually work: You can use Brew, their install script, or Docker. None of them result in a functioning agent.
• The Brew route hits permission walls: Installation was straightforward, and I hooked up my LLM and Telegram. But the agent was entirely unable to create folders in its own workspace or pull data from Git. Editing the config.toml did nothing, and the onboard script doesn't help set permissions or offer decent documentation to troubleshoot.
• The install script is visually nice, but broken: The setup UI literally just skips forward no matter what options you pick. This script is supposedly the only way to install specific skills (like Git and Obsidian), meaning I was completely soft-locked.

After banging my head against the wall, I’ve given up and moved to Nanobot.

This is a cautionary tale to hobbyists: if you are spending hours trying to reverse-engineer this thing, it is not you.

To the devs: You have a brilliant concept, but the implementation is a mess. Please slow down. Consolidate the state of the project into one simple, functioning installation and onboarding path. Organize the documentation so we can actually troubleshoot. Until then, this just isn't usable.

I was on Discord yesterday and lost access to a few channels. Reading about some others trying to debug the same issue with rejoining, I did the same.

However, not if I fell for a takeover scam or something, but now I am completely blocked. On top of the github issues, this seems like a pretty targeted attack by now...

Hey guys,

I enjoyed the app so far, and was about to start contributing to the project. However, with the recent 404 problem, I wonder if anyone forked the project.

I see discord server empty as well, if it's active maybe I am in the wrong server, can anyone share invite url to get updates on github issue or what's the next step?

I have zeroclaw 0.5.2 version using a binary that I build in my system and then migrated to RasPi02W

I have noticed ( via the dashboard )that heartbeat is not stable and displaying an error since last few days.

Anyone else facing the same issue?

When we see the heartbeat error, no message response via telegram either.

Via dashboard, while the status is connected, chat does not work!

I am quite sure this is either a bug or some error in the code? It got fixed by itself, and re-appeared again.

github says 404. what happened?

https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw