🦞 PinchChat

A sleek, dark-themed webchat UI for OpenClaw — monitor sessions, stream responses, and inspect tool calls in real-time.

🖼️ Screenshot coming soon — contributions welcome!

✨ Features

• 🌑 Dark neon theme — easy on the eyes, built with Tailwind CSS v4
• 📊 Token progress bars — track token usage per session in real-time
• 🔧 Tool call badges — expandable panels with syntax-highlighted JSON
• 📋 Session sidebar — browse active sessions with live activity indicators
• 📝 Markdown rendering — full GFM support with code highlighting
• 📎 File upload — attach files to your messages
• ⚡ Streaming responses — watch the AI think in real-time
• 🔐 Runtime login — enter gateway credentials at runtime, no secrets in the build
• 🌐 i18n support — English and French, configurable via VITE_LOCALE

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• OpenClaw gateway running and accessible

Installation

git clone https://github.com/MarlBurroW/pinchchat.git
cd pinchchat
npm install
cp .env.example .env

Optionally edit .env to pre-fill the gateway URL:

VITE_GATEWAY_WS_URL=ws://localhost:18789
VITE_LOCALE=en          # or "fr" for French UI

Start the dev server:

npm run dev

Production

npm run build
npx vite preview

Or serve the dist/ folder with nginx, Caddy, or any static file server.

⚙️ Configuration

All configuration is optional — credentials are entered at runtime via the login screen.

Variable	Description	Default
VITE_GATEWAY_WS_URL	Pre-fill the gateway URL on the login screen	ws://<hostname>:18789
VITE_LOCALE	UI language (en or fr)	en

Note: The gateway token is entered at runtime and stored in localStorage — it is never baked into the build.

🛠 Tech Stack

• React 19
• Vite 7
• Tailwind CSS v4
• Radix UI primitives
• highlight.js via rehype-highlight
• Lucide React icons
• react-markdown with GFM

📄 License

MIT © Nicolas Varrot

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

🔗 Links

• OpenClaw — the AI agent platform PinchChat connects to