openpaw

Name: openpaw
Author: daxaur

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Personal Assistant Wizard for Claude Code — npx pawmode

151stars

9forks

TypeScript

Installation

# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw

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README.md

Frequently Asked Questions

What is openpaw?

openpaw is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by daxaur. Personal Assistant Wizard for Claude Code — npx pawmode. It has 151 GitHub stars.

Is openpaw safe to use?

openpaw returned warnings in SkillsLLM's automated security scan. It has no critical vulnerabilities, but review the flagged issues in the Security Report section before adding it to your workflow.

How do I install openpaw?

Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/daxaur/openpaw" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).

What programming language is openpaw written in?

openpaw is primarily written in TypeScript. It is open-source under daxaur on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.

Are there alternatives to openpaw?

Yes. SkillsLLM lists many other AI Agents skills you can browse and compare side by side. Open the AI Agents category from the badge at the top of this page, or use the Related Skills and comparison links further down to weigh openpaw against similar tools.

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What is OpenPaw?

Claude Code is powerful, but out of the box it only knows how to code. OpenPaw turns it into a full personal assistant — one that reads your email, plays your music, controls your lights, manages your calendar, tracks your packages, and remembers what you told it last week.

Run one command and OpenPaw:

Installs 38 skills across email, calendar, Spotify, smart home, Slack, GitHub, Obsidian, and more
Sets up the CLI tools each skill needs (via Homebrew, npm, or pip) and walks you through auth
Gives Claude an identity — a name, personality, and persistent memory across sessions
Configures permissions and safety hooks so Claude can act autonomously without doing anything dangerous
Adds a Telegram bridge so you can talk to Claude from your phone
Includes a task dashboard — a local kanban board with drag-and-drop and 3 themes
Enables smart scheduling — recurring tasks with per-run and daily cost caps so nothing runs away
Can paw-style Claude Code itself — branded colors, spinners, input highlighting, and chat styling via openpaw theme

After setup, you just talk to Claude:

"Check my email and summarize anything urgent"
"Play lo-fi beats on Spotify"
"Turn the bedroom lights to 20%"
"What's on my calendar tomorrow?"
"Add milk to my reminders"
"Go to Hacker News and summarize the top 5 posts"

Claude figures out which skill to use. No special syntax needed.

No daemon, no cloud, no subscriptions. OpenPaw runs once, writes config, and gets out of the way. Everything runs locally through your existing Claude Code subscription.

Quick Start

npx pawmode

The wizard walks you through picking skills, choosing your interface (terminal, Telegram, or both), setting up a task dashboard, and authenticating with services. Or skip the wizard entirely:

npx pawmode --preset essentials       # common skills, no prompts
npx pawmode --preset developer --yes  # fully non-interactive

Skills

38 skills across 8 categories. Install only what you need.

Productivity

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-notes`	Apple Notes + Reminders	`memo`, `remindctl`
`c-obsidian`	Obsidian vault management	`obsidian-cli`
`c-notion`	Notion pages + databases	`notion-cli`
`c-tasks`	Todoist / Taskwarrior	`todoist`, `taskwarrior`

Communication

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-email`	Gmail or IMAP — read, send, search	`gog`, `himalaya`
`c-calendar`	Google Calendar + Apple Calendar	`gog`, `icalBuddy`
`c-messaging`	iMessage + WhatsApp	`imsg`, `wacli`
`c-slack`	Slack channels + DMs	`slack-cli`
`c-telegram`	Telegram bridge (built-in)	—

Media

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-music`	Spotify playback + search	`spogo`
`c-video`	YouTube download + convert	`yt-dlp`, `ffmpeg`
`c-video-edit`	Programmatic video creation	`remotion`
`c-screen`	Screenshots, OCR, webcam	`peekaboo`, `camsnap`
`c-voice`	Speech-to-text + TTS	`sag`

Smart Home

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-lights`	Philips Hue control	`openhue-cli`
`c-speakers`	Sonos speakers	`sonoscli`
`c-bluetooth`	Bluetooth devices	`blucli`

Browser & Automation

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-browser`	Headless browser — navigate, click, scrape	`playwright`
`c-cron`	Cron jobs + launchctl services	`lunchy-go`
`c-schedule`	Recurring tasks with cost control	built-in
`c-briefing`	Daily morning briefing	depends on email + calendar

System & Files

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-system`	Volume, wifi, battery, dock	`m-cli`
`c-apps`	Mac App Store from CLI	`mas`
`c-files`	Cloud sync (Drive, S3, Dropbox, 70+)	`rclone`
`c-display`	Brightness + safe trash	`brightness`, `macos-trash`
`c-notify`	Native macOS notifications	`terminal-notifier`
`c-clipboard`	Copy, paste, transform clipboard	built-in
`c-contacts`	Search macOS Contacts	built-in
`c-timer`	Countdown, alarms, pomodoro	`terminal-notifier`

Research & Utilities

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-weather`	Weather forecasts	built-in (curl + wttr.in)
`c-research`	Summarize URLs, PDFs, videos	`summarize`
`c-location`	Apple Maps + nearby places	`goplaces`
`c-tracking`	Package tracking (UPS, FedEx, etc.)	`ordercli`
`c-secrets`	1Password / Bitwarden	`op`, `bw`
`c-network`	DNS + HTTP client	`doggo`, `httpie`

Developer

Skill	What it does	Tools
`c-github`	PRs, issues, repos, actions	`gh`, `jq`
`c-linear`	Linear issues + projects	`linear`
`c-jira`	Jira issues + sprints	`jira-cli`

Presets

Preset	Skills
Everything	All 38 skills
Essentials	Email, calendar, notes, music, weather, clipboard, browser, system, notifications
Productivity	Notes, Obsidian, tasks, email, calendar, Slack, cloud files, notifications
Developer	GitHub, Linear, Jira, browser, network, cron
Creative	Music, video, screen, voice, browser, research
Smart Home	Lights, speakers, Bluetooth, system, display, notifications

Features

Telegram Bridge — Talk to Claude from your phone. OpenPaw configures the official Claude Code Telegram plugin (telegram@claude-plugins-official) — the bridge runs inside Claude Code with the same model, skills, and permissions as your terminal, so there's no separate bot process to drift or crash. Set up with openpaw telegram setup, start with openpaw telegram.

Task Dashboard — Local kanban board with 3 themes (Paw, Midnight, Neon). Run openpaw dashboard.

Self-Learning — Opt in during setup and paw quietly gets better over time. After each session a Stop hook runs a cheap heuristic gate (≥5 tool calls, an error it recovered from, or a correction you made); only then does it spend one small claude -p call to distill a single durable takeaway into a learnings file. You choose where that lives during setup — plain markdown (~/.claude/memory/learnings.md, zero setup), an Obsidian vault, or any custom path — so it doesn't have to be Obsidian. Never stores secrets or full transcripts. Turn it off anytime with export OPENPAW_SELF_LEARNING=off.

Token Saving — Opt in and OpenPaw wires up rtk (Rust Token Killer) as a PreToolUse hook that compresses verbose command output — git status/diff, build logs, etc. — for 40–90% fewer tokens. Offered in the wizard; installs via Homebrew if you don't have it.

Migrate from another assistant — Already using Hermes, OpenClaw, Copilot, or Claude Code? openpaw migrate imports what they already know — facts from Hermes ~/.hermes/memories, OpenClaw's memory store, and your Claude Code history — into paw's self-learning memory, and can seed your SOUL.md from an existing persona. Secrets are stripped on the way in. Preview first with openpaw migrate --dry-run. The setup wizard offers this automatically when it detects another assistant on your machine.

Scheduling — Recurring tasks with per-run and daily cost caps. openpaw schedule add "weekdays 8am" --run "check email".

Claude Code Paw Theme — Patch Claude Code with OpenPaw styling using tweakcc plus a native mascot fallback patch. Run openpaw theme install and then openpaw theme verify, or opt into it during openpaw setup. If your Claude Code build accepts custom themes, switch inside Claude Code with `/theme ope