ZeroClaw Guide

Deploy the ultra-lightweight Rust agent on Maritime.

Recorded live on Maritime: deploy ZeroClaw from a template, open its dashboard, and chat with it, from the first click to the first reply.

Overview

ZeroClaw is a single Rust binary that exposes a gateway plus an OpenAI-compatible chat API. It uses a fraction of the memory of Node.js-based agents (typically <5 MB resident) and starts in under a second, which makes it a good pick for running many agents at once.

Docker Image

Image: ghcr.io/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw:debian

Debian-based runtime, gateway on port 42617, HOME is /zeroclaw-data.

How It Works

Maritime wraps the entrypoint so the daemon (a) runs zeroclaw config migrate first, (b) is patched to bind 0.0.0.0 with allow_public_bind = true, and (c) has device pairing disabled so the Maritime proxy can connect directly. The WebSocket sub-protocol is zeroclaw.v1.

# The container runs with:
ZEROCLAW_HEADLESS=true
ZEROCLAW_ALLOW_PUBLIC_BIND=true
ZEROCLAW_GATEWAY_PORT=42617
ZEROCLAW_GATEWAY_PASSWORD=<auto-generated>
ZEROCLAW_WORKSPACE=/zeroclaw-data/workspace

Environment Variables

ZeroClaw uses an OpenAI-compatible provider. If you don't supply OPENAI_API_KEY /ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, Maritime injects a per-agent proxy token pointed at https://api.maritime.sh/api/llm/v1.

Deploy

Select Template → ZeroClaw Agent in the Create Agent modal, or:

maritime create -n my-agent -t zeroclaw && maritime deploy my-agent

Talk to it

Chat from the terminal. The reply is a real model response, routed through the Maritime LLM proxy:

Shows a ZeroClaw agent active on serverless Firecracker, then sends it a chat message that returns a live reply. Recorded against production.

Or open the agent in the dashboard and click ZeroClaw Dashboard to load ZeroClaw's own web UI, then chat there. Same agent, same reply, no terminal required:

Clicks the ZeroClaw Dashboard button to load the native web UI (Connected, provider openai.default), sends a question, and the agent answers in the browser. Recorded against production.

Upstream links & resources

zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw: the source repository. ZeroClaw has no separate docs site; the README and repo docs are the authoritative reference for its config file (config.toml), providers, and gateway protocol.
ghcr.io/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw: the exact container image Maritime deploys (the debian tag), with all published variants.