Pi is still my favorite coding agent for the majority of work I do, and I've used Hermes successfully for a few professional jobs. I use both those agents on VPS servers and on local machines, and keep a copy of Pi handy on my Android phone (it runs great in Termux).

But those agents, and many others tend to be difficult for completely non-technical users to get started with. Working in the console, installing prerequisites like Node.js, configuring APIs, etc., turns people off right away - and God forbid, installing Termux on a user's phone + getting them to work with the console controls there - forget about it.

There have been a pile of native UI releases which are intended for average computer users, but apps such as OpenHuman and Hermes desktop are still really heavy installs, and tend to be confusing for non-technical users.

PicoClaw at https://picoclaw.io is the opposite. It's a light weight install - just download the zip file for your OS/hardware configuration, unzip it and run the PicoClaw launcher. It doesn't even require installation. PicoClaw also releases APK files for Android - no command line required at all.

When you run the PicoClaw application, a nice UI appears in your browser to enter API keys for any of the common LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deepseek, Openrouter, etc.), and the same for communication channels (Telegram, Discord, Whatsapp, etc.). But of course, you may not even need communication channels since you can run PicoClaw directly on your phone. And every other config setting is available as simple menu selections.

If you're setting up an agent for your parents or a coworker who has trouble logging into email, give PicoClaw a try.