User manual
thClaws User Manual
34 chapters
A native-Rust AI agent workspace with CLI and desktop GUI. This manual
covers everything from installation through building and deploying
real projects — coding, automation, knowledge bases, and multi-agent
teams.
Part I — Using thClaws
Chapter numbers are stable — they are the published URLs — so the
groups below are a reading order, not a renumbering. Jump to whichever
group matches what you are trying to do.
Getting started
Everyday use
Keeping the agent in bounds
How you decide what the agent may do before it does it — and what
leaves your machine.
What the agent knows
Extending the agent
Running several agents
Reaching thClaws from elsewhere
thClaws.cloud and managed copies
Appendices
Conventions used in this manual
❯ is the REPL prompt; what follows on that line is what you type.$ is a shell prompt outside thClaws.[tool: Bash: …] / [tokens: Xin/Yout · Ts] lines show what thClaws prints back.- Code fences without a language are terminal output; fences with a language (
rust, json, bash) are files you write or commands you run.
- Bold inside a command label indicates a required input (e.g. name).
- Every chapter is self-contained — skip around freely.