First Run

Let's wake up your AI assistant.

Initialize

Open your terminal (or command prompt on Windows) in the folder where you have the picoclaw file.

Run this command:

bash

./picoclaw init

(Windows users: just type picoclaw init)

You should see a message saying it created some files.

Now, let's start the chat mode.

bash

./picoclaw run

You will see: >

This is the prompt. Type "Hello" and press Enter.

By default, PicoClaw might not know how to answer because you haven't given it a "Brain" (an API Key) yet.

In the next section, we will connect it to a smart AI model so it can talk to you intelligently.