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Clawd
A context-aware browser mascot with 100% local offline AI
164 followers
A context-aware browser mascot with 100% local offline AI
164 followers
Meet Clawd, the context-aware browser pet that truly understands your vibe. Clawd crawls your screen, reacts to website sentiment, and levels up to unlock 140+ animations. He’s more than just a mascot. Use the new voice-enabled Chat to talk to him in custom personas (Sarcastic, Gen Z), complete with Markdown support and text-to-speech! Best of all? It’s 100% offline and privacy-first. Your data never leaves your machine. Clawd is your ultimate browsing companion!
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I’ve always missed the simple joy of desktop companions from the 90s (shoutout to Shimejis and BonziBuddy!), but I wanted something that felt truly "alive" in the modern web.
Clawd was born from a simple challenge: Can an AI pet be incredibly smart, highly interactive, and 100% private at the same time?
By leveraging Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano alongside on-device machine learning (ONNX Runtime), Clawd "vibe-checks" every page you visit entirely locally. He knows when you’re debugging a crash on GitHub, relaxing on YouTube or doomscrolling on social media—and he reacts to all of it.
What makes Clawd special:
100% Private AI: Sentiment analysis and chat happen entirely on-device. No API keys, zero latency, and no data leaves your machine.
Interactive Voice & Chat: Speak to Clawd via your microphone or text. He replies using text-to-speech voice playback, Markdown formatting, and custom personas (Sarcastic, Gen Z, Encouraging, etc.).
Distraction-Free & Optimized: We know your browser footprint matters! Use the Focus Mode to completely silences Clawd or Ghost Mode to dynamically fade Clawd's opacity down while you are actively typing or scrolling, and toggle Performance Mode to cap the physics engine and save battery on low-end machines.
Custom Physics: He doesn't just sit there; he crawls the ceiling and snaps to edges.
Leveling & Progression: Earn XP simply by browsing to unlock 140+ animations, interactive toys, and rare cosmetic auras.
I built this for anyone who spends their entire day in a browser and wants a little more fun and personality in their workspace. I’d love to hear your feedback on his new chat features, or any ideas for new toys and animations to add!
Happy browsing!
@fuijidevv Did you make those cute-animations yourself??
@sam_alghaithi I can't take all the credit! The base SVG assets are adapted from Abderrahim Ghazali's awesome open-source clawd-pet library.
Running inference entirely local inside a browser extension is a real engineering constraint. Gemini Nano with ONNX Runtime is a smart choice. Context injection from the DOM has to be selective or you'll overwhelm the local model's context window. How do you handle it when the page is large? Does Clawd summarize DOM sections or use a fixed token budget?
@anand_thakkar1 Clawd doesn't actually scrape the entire DOM body. Instead, he extracts only the <title> and <meta> description tags, which strictly truncate to a maximum of 500 characters.
This fixed character budget is piped to our Offscreen Document hosting the WebAssembly-compiled ONNX Runtime. This approach gives us just enough semantic meaning to evaluate the page's sentiment and intent accurately without ever risking token limit overflow, and it keeps CPU overhead incredibly low so we don't lag the user's browsing experience.
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how heavy is the model to run?
are you not afraid that the name is too close to Claude and might be taken down by Anthropic?
@fberrez1 It’s a quantized ~67MB download that caches locally. It only scans the page <title> and <meta> description (capped at 500 characters), so it runs in milliseconds. As for the name, it’s just a pun on 'claws'. The original open-source SVG asset library I adapted the art from was named clawd-pet by its creator, so I kept it to honor them
the 90s desktop pet nostalgia is real. the fact that it runs 100% local with no data leaving your machine makes it way more trustworthy than it needs to be for a browser pet. the sentiment analysis that reacts to what you're browsing is a fun touch too... curious if it judges me for my 3am wikipedia rabbit holes
@tina_chhabra haha, thanks! And yes, he absolutely judges you. On Wikipedia, he usually puts on his 'Scholar' hat to read along with you.
Wait this is actually nostalgic. Desktop pets were the best part of the early internet. The fact that it runs fully local and reacts to what you're browsing is wild. Does it slow down Chrome at all though? My tabs are already fighting for memory.
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The local/offline angle is the part that makes this interesting to me. A browser pet can get creepy fast if page context leaves the machine, so using on-device sentiment and Gemini Nano is a good boundary. The hard product question is making Clawd feel alive without stealing focus. Curious what signals trigger a proactive reaction versus keeping him quiet.
The 100% local offline processing is a real differentiator - curious what model is actually running under the hood and whether it performs well on machines without a dedicated GPU?