NanoClaw: Building a Trustworthy Personal AI Assistant Through Minimalism and OS-Level Security

NanoClaw: Building a Trustworthy Personal AI Assistant Through Minimalism and Container Isolation Minimal workspace setup Image source: Unsplash Why Build Minimal When Complex Frameworks Exist? Core question: In an era of sophisticated open-source AI assistant frameworks, why would an engineer deliberately choose to build a system small enough to read in eight minutes? The answer lies in the gap between functionality and trust. Modern AI assistants demand access to our most sensitive data—personal messages, work documents, financial records, and daily routines. Yet most existing solutions grow increasingly opaque as they accumulate features, relying on application-layer permission checks and sprawling dependency …