🦞 Lobster Orchestrator

> **Run 50 AI agents on your old phone.**

> Beautifully simple. Zero cloud. $0 cost.

Lobster is a quiet worker — a single-process orchestrator that manages multiple AI agent instances on constrained hardware. No complex setup, no cloud bills, no vendor lock-in. Just your old devices, working together.

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Why?

Because you don't need a $50/month VPS to run an AI agent team. You have a drawer full of old phones.

**Your old Samsung Galaxy** → 10 agent instances

**That iPad collecting dust** → 5 agent instances

**A Raspberry Pi you forgot about** → 3 agent instances

**Total: 18 agents. Total cost: $0.**

What It Does

Lobster runs as a **single process** that manages multiple PicoClaw instances. Each instance is an isolated AI agent with:

< 10MB memory per instance

RESTful API for control

Independent lifecycle (start/stop/restart)

No Go compilation needed for basic use

Quick Start

```bash

Start the orchestrator

./lobster start

Check status

./lobster status

That's it.

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Philosophy

We believe in:

**Using what you already have** — old devices deserve a second life

**Simplicity over complexity** — one process, one command

**Local control over cloud dependency** — your agents, your hardware

**Quiet reliability** — no hype, no dashboard, just works

Not For You If

You want a flashy web dashboard

You need 1000+ instances

You prefer paying $50/month for cloud AI

For You If

You have old devices lying around

You want to run multiple AI agents without cloud costs

You believe in local-first, edge computing

You appreciate simplicity

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*"The best infrastructure is the one you already own."*