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Nanobot

The ultra-lightweight personal AI agent. 99% less code, 100% of the essentials.

★ 40k starsPython 3.11+by HKUDS
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What is Nanobot?

Nanobot is an ultra-lightweight personal AI agent from the HKUDS research group. It's built in the spirit of OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Codex but stripped to the bone: the same core agent loop in 99% fewer lines of code. The point is readability. You can sit down and understand the whole thing end-to-end in an afternoon.

Its standout feature is a two-stage memory system: live conversation history is kept separate from consolidated long-term knowledge, with a background consolidation pass backed by git-versioned storage so every memory state is recoverable. MIT licensed.

Highlights

What you get when you run Nanobot on LaunchPod.

Tiny, hackable codebaseA personal AI agent you can actually read. Minimal dependencies, clean Python, easy to modify for your own research.
Two-stage memorySeparates live conversation from consolidated long-term knowledge. A background pass distils durable state.
Git-versioned memoryEvery consolidation is committed to git. You can roll back, diff, or audit your agent’s memory like any other repo.
Fast startup, low footprintLightweight by design. Cold starts fast and stays out of the way on your VM.
Built for long-running agentsStability over features. The project optimises for stable, long-lived agent processes you’d actually leave running for weeks.
Actively maintainedRegular channel and provider additions, reliability fixes, and production-oriented improvements from HKUDS.

How it works on LaunchPod

LaunchPod installs nanobot on your dedicated VM and runs it as a managed service for your engagement. Charlie configures it with you, no SSH or terminal needed.

Resources

Nanobot is open source. Here's everything you need to dig deeper into the project.

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