Open source · Runs on your machine · Nobody's business model
The AI that really does things.
Organizes your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights.
All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use.
Run it for yourself — or share it with your team.
No subscription. No hosted tier. No token. Stewarded by an independent 501(c)(3).
Your memories. Your skills. Your models. Your machines. Your data.
Quick Start
Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. The apps and the one-liner install Node.js and everything else for you. Switch later with openclaw update --channel dev or openclaw update --channel stable.
What People Say
View all related content"The Clawfather 🦞. Thank you for joining us at Build today @steipete!"
"The speed of agents in this new version is incredible. Kudos to @steipete and the whole community 🦞"
"Last night we celebrated @openclaw, the fastest growing project on GitHub. In just six months, @steipete, dozens of maintainers, and thousands of contributors built something remarkable: open source personal agents. 🚀 We had over 3,300 people registered for the event!"
"If it wasn't for OpenClaw we wouldn't have the massive progress across these kinds of personal agent harnesses. OpenClaw was the first agent harness I used, and now I get to enjoy other harnesses too. Thank you Legend, keep it up"
"I'm finally testing @openclaw. This is crazy good, this thing is probably going to run my life. Congratulations @steipete! But I want my sleep back 🤣"
"Thanks Peter, I've been super impressed with how much OpenClaw has improved over the last month. As someone that's been using it since the early days, it's kinda like a whole new product now, so much polish 🤌"
"The latest OpenClaw release is fantastic! Fixes all the issues I've having the past week. Thank you!"
"Thanks for joining us, and all the partnership as we make OpenClaw run super well on Windows! 🦞"
"Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that went from a weekend project to the most-starred software repo on GitHub in under 5 months, with 346k+ stars."
"Using Microsoft Execution Containers, you can run OpenClaw natively on Windows, and the sandbox prevented deletion of all files on the Desktop. Running OpenClaw more safely in an enterprise is "pretty dope". :)"
"I'm addicted to building thanks to OpenClaw and Codex. Yesterday I built dm-annotate, a Mac screen annotation tool. Today, I'm building a curriculum recorder suite."
"you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering."
"You can access 𝕏 API via @OpenClaw. We’re trying to make it affordable without giving away the shop. Hopefully, this can be useful & fun 💫"
"A snake showed up in our backyard yesterday. Instead of panicking, I sent this photo to my OpenClaw. It identified it as a harmless gopher snake, gave me a local number to call to confirm, and suggested ways to catch it to make it a pet for the kids. I have small moments like this everyday now, usually less dramatic, that remind me how AI has made daily life feel a little more magical."
"It's happened. My OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are now chatting with one another. The cyberpunk future is here, but hopefully it's a whitepill instead of a blackpill. Let's try to push it to the former."
"I am SO SO excited about the Windows x OpenClaw announcement at #MSBuild. I love that our 🦞s can do all sorts of work for us (prepping for performance reviews, figuring out what happened in meetings that I refused to go to, godforsaken EXPENSE REPORTS, ha). And @steipete is ACTUALLY the coolest dude you’ve ever met."
"I changed my mind recently. OpenClaw acquisition will pay off for OpenAI. It’s still by far the best personal agent in the world. Nothing has come close. It’s a net new product experience for normies and non SaaS businesses. Plus, Peter is top 0.1% talent acquisition. gg"
"Here’s OpenAI’s latest realtime voice model, GPT-Realtime-2, wired up to OpenClaw. It’s amazing. Realtime continuous chat and fast OpenClaw agent action on real tasks. Truly excellent."
"Shit wow I just gave my @openclaw Lobster a real phone number using @twilio and called him. Mind blown. Took 20 min to set up. I still can't believe it."
"It's a crime that this repo only has under 400 stars. /autoreview and /handoff are literally two of the best agent skills I've ever used. Massive thanks @steipete and @openclaw"
"If you left Openclaw because of update stability its time to give it another try. The last 2 weeks have been the best experience I've had on openclaw so far. Glad i stuck with it and didn't migrate or give up because of complexity. I ended up learning things i wouldn't have known otherwise and now im on the most Feature rich Agentic System."
"Finally updated my openclaw and now using GPT-5.5 and the difference is visible and the humor is as like claude models! Amazing work on the harness @steipete"
"Setup @openclaw by @steipete yesterday. All I have to say is, wow. First I was using my Claude Max sub and I used all of my limit quickly, so today I had my claw bot setup a proxy to route my CoPilot subscription as a API endpoint so now it runs on that. It's the fact that claw can just keep building upon itself just by talking to it in discord is crazy. The future is already here"
"Tried Claw by @steipete. I tried to build my own AI assistant bots before, and I am very impressed how many hard things Claw gets right. Persistent memory, persona onboarding, comms integration, heartbeats. A few minor wrinkles remain, but the end result is AWESOME."
"I've been saying for like six months that even if LLMs suddenly stopped improving, we could spend *years* discovering new transformative uses. @openclaw feels like that kind of "just had to glue all the parts together" leap forward. Incredible experience."
"Why @openclaw is nuts: your context and skills live on YOUR computer, not a walled garden. It's open source. Growing community building skills. Only 19 days old and constantly improving. 'Personal AI assistant' undersells it — it's a company assistant, family assistant, team tool. Proactive AF: cron jobs, reminders, background tasks. Memory is amazing, context persists 24/7."
"Yeah this was 1,000% worth it. Separate Claude subscription + Claw, managing Claude Code / Codex sessions I can kick off anywhere, autonomously running tests on my app and capturing errors through a sentry webhook then resolving them and opening PRs... The future is here."
"A smart model with eyes and hands at a desk with keyboard and mouse. You message it like a coworker and it does everything a person could do with that Mac mini. That's what you have now."
"OpenClaw is a 24/7 assistant with access to its own computer. What if there were ten, or a hundred, or a thousand?? All running 24/7 in the cloud with access to your files, Gmail, calendar, everything about you... That's the future, and we're living it today."
"At this point I don't even know what to call @openclaw. It is something new. After a few weeks in with it, this is the first time I have felt like I am living in the future since the launch of ChatGPT."
"OpenClaw is the first "software" in ages for which I constantly check for new releases on GitHub. It's hard to put into words. It's a special project."
"When you experience @openclaw it gives the same kick as when we first saw the power of ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Claude Code. You realize that a fundamental shift is happening on how we use AI."
"It's running my company."
"After years of AI hype, I thought nothing could faze me. Then I installed @openclaw. From nervous 'hi what can you do?' to full throttle - design, code review, taxes, PM, content pipelines... AI as teammate, not tool. The endgame of digital employees is here."
"Just shipped my first personal AI assistant. On WhatsApp. Builds my second brain while I chat. Memory moves across agents (Codex, Cursor, Manus, etc.) And a lot more skills still to plug in. Personal AI is getting real with @steipete's @openclaw."
"It will actually be the thing that nukes a ton of startups, not ChatGPT as people meme about. The fact that it's hackable (and more importantly, self-hackable) and hostable on-prem will make sure tech like this DOMINATES conventional SaaS imo"
"Just got my Winix air purifier, Claude code discovered and confirmed controls working within minutes. Now handing off to my @openclaw so it can handle controlling my room's air quality according to my biomarker optimization goals."
"Gotta give incredible kudos to @steipete and his @openclaw - it's one of the first tools I've used that truly feels like magic. I've also set it up so it knows my Obsidian notes and my Claude sub-agents…incredible stuff!"
"My @openclaw accidentally started a fight with Lemonade Insurance because of a wrong interpretation of my response. After this email, they started to reinvestigate the case instead of instantly rejecting it. Thanks, AI."
"I just finished setting up @openclaw by @steipete on my Raspberry Pi with Cloudflare, and it feels magical ✨ Built a website from my phone in minutes and connected WHOOP to quickly check my metrics and daily habits 🔥"
"I've been running OpenClaw on my laptop for a week now. Honestly it feels like it did to run Linux Vs windows 20 years ago. You're in control, you can hack it and make it yours instead of relying on some tech giant."
"Today was one of those days that I sort of ran to my computer after dropping off my toddler at daycare. Why? Because I got part-way through setting up @openclaw last night and it's a portal to a new reality."
"Got OpenClaw set up and now I have an AI assistant named Claudia who lives in Telegram, remembers everything I tell her, and can actually *do* stuff. She just wrote this tweet. Meta? Maybe. Cool? Absolutely."
"Current level of open-source apps capabilities: does everything, connects to everything, remembers everything. It's all collapsing into one unique personal OS — all apps, interfaces, walled gardens etc gone"
"I've enjoyed Brosef, my @openclaw so much that I needed to clone him. Brosef figured out exactly how to do it, then executed it himself so I have 3 instances running concurrently in his Discord server home."
"I got up and running today with @openclaw and its been nothing short of an iPhone moment for me. Thanks @steipete for creating this first true personal assistant experience for us - it's magical!"
"The future of how AI personal assistants look like is @openclaw. Has already help me submit health reimbursements, find doctor appointments, find and send me relevant documents, among others."
"you have done an incredible job! im also a total non technical beginner so the CLI is a whole new interface for me but its super addictive - 2 am and Im still going. keep up the great work"
Product notes with docs-level depth.
Latest Sep 3, 2026 OpenClaw improves user onboarding with a new installer on macOS, plus easier local model setup for Windows NVIDIA RTX PCs
A new installer and onboarding flow on macOS, plus streamlined local model setup on Windows NVIDIA RTX PCs, get you from download to a working agent faster.
Aug 30, 2026 OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.
Jul 30, 2026 On the Road to LTS: Extended-Stable Releases and the Maturity Scorecard
A new long-lived release channel and a public maturity scorecard make it easier to choose OpenClaw features for critical workloads.
What It Does
Runs on Your Machine
Mac, Windows, or Linux. Bring hosted, subscription-backed, gateway, or local models. State lives on your machine, not a vendor cloud.
Chat Where You Are
Talk to it on WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, or any of its 29 channels. Works in DMs and group chats.
Persistent Memory
Remembers your preferences, projects, and people from one conversation to the next.
Full System Access
Browses the web, fills forms, reads and writes files, runs shell commands. Full access or sandboxed—your choice.
Works With Your Team
Share one gateway: sessions the whole team can open and steer, live presence, and commits credited to the people behind them.
Skills & Plugins
Extend with community skills or build your own. It can even write its own.
Works With Everything
Explore integrations related content15+ Agent Army Running Across 3 Machines
A full OpenClaw setup clearing 10,000 emails, reviewing decks, building CLI tools, optimizing Google Ads, drafting posts, and orchestrating Codex workers across a Discord-driven agent fleet.
Personal Operating System With Daily Briefings
OpenClaw timeblocks tasks, runs weekly reviews from meeting notes, briefs before meetings, watches family school deadlines, researches projects, resolves calendar conflicts, and creates invoices.
Voice-Guided Production Fix While Walking the Dog
A live OpenClaw workflow that inspected failed Railway builds, diagnosed the root cause, changed deployment configs, redeployed, fixed a design issue, and submitted a PR over voice.
One Chat Controlling Mail, Messages, Orders, Calls, and a Vault
A single OpenClaw assistant checking mail, reading Beeper messages, ordering things, sending reminders, creating GitHub issues, discussing bookmarks, handling voice calls, and reading and writing a dedicated 1Password vault.
Featured In
View all related contentOpenClaw is finally available on Android and iOS
OpenClaw lands on phones: native iOS and Android apps with chat, Talk mode, and remote action approvals paired to your own Gateway.
How Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw
Fast Company puts OpenClaw’s creator on its AI 20 for 2026: building in public, a Discord as the showroom, and half a million systems running the lobster.
Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development
Straight from the Build keynote: OpenClaw runs natively on Windows inside Microsoft Execution Containers — “the Windows node and gateway run contained, so your system stays secure.”
Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
Microsoft ships a personal assistant openly inspired by OpenClaw, bringing agent workflows to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Who is behind OpenClaw
Read the announcement related contentOpenClaw is stewarded by the OpenClaw Foundation, an independent US 501(c)(3) non-profit. The Foundation employs the core team, signs every release, and keeps the whole product MIT licensed. There is no enterprise edition and no paid version.
The Foundation is funded by donors, including the University of Michigan, OpenAI, Amazon, Red Hat, Offline Holdings, and Lobster Computer Company. Donors fund the Foundation. They do not own, control, or direct the project, and no lab's model is privileged in the code. OpenAI is a donor and Peter Steinberger works there; OpenClaw is not an OpenAI product.
We have nothing to sell you, so we have no reason to route you anywhere. By default an install sends the Foundation nothing but a daily version check, and you can turn that off: what OpenClaw sends.
Donors and sponsors
Donors and infrastructure sponsors support the Foundation; none of them own or direct the project. Also supported by Amazon, Red Hat, the University of Michigan, Offline Holdings, and Lobster Computer Company.