Most “personal” AI assistants send your conversations and memory to the cloud. ClawLite doesn’t.It runs entirely on your machine using local models. Chat through Telegram. It has persistent local memory, searches the live web, manages Gmail & Calendar (with approval), and sends a personalized Daily Brief.Real security: human approval for actions, Docker sandbox, and transparent cloud fallback. One-click Windows installer. Open source (Apache 2.0).No subscription. No data lock-in.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Fernando, founder of ForgeSynapse. I built ClawLite because I was tired of "personal" AI assistants that treat privacy as an afterthought.
Every other tool I tried either:
- Sent my conversations to the cloud by default
- Required a subscription to keep my own memory
- Or was so technical that normal people couldn’t use it
So I decided to build the opposite: an assistant that runs on **your machine**, uses **Telegram** as the interface, has real local memory, strong security guardrails, and can be installed by anyone with one click.
It’s still early (we just shipped v0.4.0 a couple of days ago), but the core is solid: local-first, transparent fallback, human-in-the-loop for important actions, and proper sandboxing.
I’d love your honest feedback:
- Does the local-first approach actually matter to you?
- What would make you trust (or not trust) an AI assistant like this?
- Any features you’re missing?
Happy to answer any questions. Thanks for checking it out!
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the local-only angle is what sold me, and the approval flow for Gmail actions feels responsible. one thing i'd love is a simple way to export my full memory and chat history as a plain folder of markdown files, so i can actually own my data long term and search it with normal tools.
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@selahattinywtc Thanks Selahattin for the upvote and the comment! Exporting full memory + chat history as plain markdown is a great idea (noting it down for upcoming versions.) Any other suggestions?
It's shipped: /export (or /exportar) in Telegram now gives you your entire memory as 7 plain markdown files — chat history, profile, conversation summary, brand profile, behavior patterns, knowledge graph, watches. No proprietary format, no lock-in, just a folder you can open and grep like anything else on your machine.
Your comment is actually why it exists. It's in our Update #1 post going up today, wanted you to see it here first.
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Update #1 is live 👋
Keeping this one short: what shipped, and why.
A comment in this thread stuck with us, someone said the local-only approach and the Gmail approval flow felt responsible, then asked for a simple way to export their full memory and chat history as plain markdown, so they could actually own their data long-term and search it with normal tools.
That wasn't on any roadmap. It is now:
• Full memory export — one command, 7 plain markdown files (chat history, profile, summary, brand profile, behavior patterns, knowledge graph, watches). No proprietary format, no lock-in. Just a folder you can grep.
• Multilingual commands — English, French, and German now, more on the way.
• Smarter research synthesis — the multi-agent pipeline now shows what's corroborated by multiple sources vs. single-source or conflicting, instead of blending it into one confident-sounding answer.
• A real reliability fix — closed a duplicate background memory-write path that could cause inconsistent long-term memory over long sessions.
ran it on my laptop this afternoon and the fact that the whole thing runs locally without pinging a server is kind of wild, also the daily brief actually pulled in stuff from my calendar which surprised me
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@helinbxw5 Thanks Helin! Really glad the daily brief surprised you by pulling in your calendar. Let me know if you try more features!
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Tried it on my laptop and the one-click installer actually worked first try, which never happens. Love that I can chat through Telegram without anything touching the cloud, and the daily brief pulling from my calendar feels genuinely useful.
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@safiyeacrt Thanks Safiye! So happy the one-click installer actually worked on the first try (that almost never happens). Any feedback is welcome!
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The local-only setup is genuinely impressive, especially the Docker sandbox for risky actions. Daily Brief in Telegram feels way more useful than I expected for a quick morning catch-up.
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@suatswwa Thanks Suat! The Docker sandbox and Daily Brief were two of the things I really wanted to get right. Glad they felt useful.
the local-only angle is what sold me, and the approval flow for Gmail actions feels responsible. one thing i'd love is a simple way to export my full memory and chat history as a plain folder of markdown files, so i can actually own my data long term and search it with normal tools.
@selahattinywtc Thanks Selahattin for the upvote and the comment! Exporting full memory + chat history as plain markdown is a great idea (noting it down for upcoming versions.)
Any other suggestions?
@selahattinywtc This one landed exactly right, thank you.
It's shipped: /export (or /exportar) in Telegram now gives you your entire memory as 7 plain markdown files — chat history, profile, conversation summary, brand profile, behavior patterns, knowledge graph, watches. No proprietary format, no lock-in, just a folder you can open and grep like anything else on your machine.
Your comment is actually why it exists. It's in our Update #1 post going up today, wanted you to see it here first.
Update #1 is live 👋
Keeping this one short: what shipped, and why.
A comment in this thread stuck with us, someone said the local-only approach and the Gmail approval flow felt responsible, then asked for a simple way to export their full memory and chat history as plain markdown, so they could actually own their data long-term and search it with normal tools.
That wasn't on any roadmap.
It is now:
• Full memory export — one command, 7 plain markdown files (chat history, profile, summary, brand profile, behavior patterns, knowledge graph, watches). No proprietary format, no lock-in. Just a folder you can grep.
• Multilingual commands — English, French, and German now, more on the way.
• Smarter research synthesis — the multi-agent pipeline now shows what's corroborated by multiple sources vs. single-source or conflicting, instead of blending it into one confident-sounding answer.
• A real reliability fix — closed a duplicate background memory-write path that could cause inconsistent long-term memory over long sessions.
Boring, but it had to be right.
Same repo, same install: https://github.com/forgesynapseltd/ClawLite
ran it on my laptop this afternoon and the fact that the whole thing runs locally without pinging a server is kind of wild, also the daily brief actually pulled in stuff from my calendar which surprised me
@helinbxw5 Thanks Helin! Really glad the daily brief surprised you by pulling in your calendar. Let me know if you try more features!
Tried it on my laptop and the one-click installer actually worked first try, which never happens. Love that I can chat through Telegram without anything touching the cloud, and the daily brief pulling from my calendar feels genuinely useful.
@safiyeacrt Thanks Safiye! So happy the one-click installer actually worked on the first try (that almost never happens). Any feedback is welcome!
The local-only setup is genuinely impressive, especially the Docker sandbox for risky actions. Daily Brief in Telegram feels way more useful than I expected for a quick morning catch-up.
@suatswwa Thanks Suat! The Docker sandbox and Daily Brief were two of the things I really wanted to get right. Glad they felt useful.