forgesynapseltd/clawlite

ClawLite is a personal AI assistant that lives inside Telegram and runs entirely on your own computer. You chat with it the way you would chat with any Telegram bot: you ask a question, it searches the web if needed, remembers what you told it before, and replies. The key difference from typical AI assistants is that your conversations never leave your machine. There is no subscription, no cloud service holding your data, and no silent background transfer of what you say. Under the hood, ClawLite relies on a tool called Ollama, which runs a language model locally on your computer so responses are generated without sending anything to an outside server. For web searches, it uses a service called Tavily to pull live information from the internet when a question requires current facts. It stores your conversation history in a local database with semantic search, meaning it can recall relevant past exchanges without that data ever sitting on someone else's server. If Ollama is unavailable and you have configured a Groq API key, ClawLite can fall back to a cloud service, but it will tell you explicitly when that happens. Security is built into the design. Every tool call and web request is checked against an approved list before it runs, so the assistant cannot access your files, run arbitrary code, or contact websites you have not authorized. An optional daily brief feature can search for news and deliver a morning summary at a time you choose. Installing it on Windows requires no terminal or technical knowledge. You download an installer, run it, and a setup page asks for a Telegram bot token and a Tavily API key. You get the token from Telegram's BotFather and the Tavily key from the Tavily website. For developers, there is also a manual installation path that works on any operating system, including a Docker option. The project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and is built by ForgeSynapse LTD. The roadmap lists features already completed, including the Telegram bot, web search, local memory, and sandbox protection, with planned additions like voice input, WhatsApp support, and a plugin marketplace.