Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer

he stack: two agents on separate boxes.

The public one (nullclaw) is a 678 KB Zig binary using ~1 MB RAM, connected to an Ergo IRC server.

Visitors talk to it via a gamja web client embedded in my site.

The private one (ironclaw) handles email and scheduling, reachable only over Tailscale via Google’s A2A protocol.

Tiered inference: Haiku 4.5 for conversation (sub-second, cheap), Sonnet 4.6 for tool use (only when needed).

Hard cap at $2/day.

A2A passthrough: the private-side agent borrows the gateway’s own inference pipeline, so there’s one API key and one billing relationship regardless of who initiated the request.

You can talk to nully at https://georgelarson.me/chat/ or connect with any IRC client to irc.georgelarson.me:6697 (TLS), channel #lobby.

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原文链接: HackerNews