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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.

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Quick Start

Install
β BETA

# Works everywhere. Installs everything. You're welcome. 🦞

$curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows. The one-liner installs Node.js and everything else for you. Switch later with openclaw update --channel dev or openclaw update --channel stable.

What People Say

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@pavandavuluri

"The Clawfather 🦞. Thank you for joining us at Build today @steipete!"

@pavandavuluri
@rodrigofarinha

"The speed of agents in this new version is incredible. Kudos to @steipete and the whole community 🦞"

@rodrigofarinha
@ashleywolf

"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!"

@ashleywolf
@bartslodyczka

"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"

@bartslodyczka
@nelsonlopes_

"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 🤣"

@nelsonlopes_
@morganlinton

"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 🤌"

@morganlinton
@mronge

"The latest OpenClaw release is fantastic! Fixes all the issues I've having the past week. Thank you!"

@mronge
@satyanadella

"Thanks for joining us, and all the partnership as we make OpenClaw run super well on Windows! 🦞"

@satyanadella
@ycombinator

"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."

@ycombinator
@jennifermarsman

"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". :)"

@jennifermarsman
@BradGroux

"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."

@BradGroux
@sama

"you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering."

@sama
@elonmusk

"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 💫"

@elonmusk
@pavandavuluri

"The Clawfather 🦞. Thank you for joining us at Build today @steipete!"

@pavandavuluri
@rodrigofarinha

"The speed of agents in this new version is incredible. Kudos to @steipete and the whole community 🦞"

@rodrigofarinha
@ashleywolf

"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!"

@ashleywolf
@bartslodyczka

"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"

@bartslodyczka
@nelsonlopes_

"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 🤣"

@nelsonlopes_
@morganlinton

"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 🤌"

@morganlinton
@mronge

"The latest OpenClaw release is fantastic! Fixes all the issues I've having the past week. Thank you!"

@mronge
@satyanadella

"Thanks for joining us, and all the partnership as we make OpenClaw run super well on Windows! 🦞"

@satyanadella
@ycombinator

"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."

@ycombinator
@jennifermarsman

"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". :)"

@jennifermarsman
@BradGroux

"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."

@BradGroux
@sama

"you can sign in to openclaw with your chatgpt account now and use your subscription there! happy lobstering."

@sama
@elonmusk

"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 💫"

@elonmusk
@growing_daniel

"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."

@growing_daniel
@garrytan

"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."

@garrytan
@donasarkar

"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."

@donasarkar
@frankdegods

"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"

@frankdegods
@BenjaminBadejo

"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."

@BenjaminBadejo
@OmarShahine

"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."

@OmarShahine
@hungv47

"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"

@hungv47
@Strong_Genetics

"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."

@Strong_Genetics
@MahmoudAshraf93

"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"

@MahmoudAshraf93
@jonahships_

"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"

@jonahships_
@AryehDubois

"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."

@AryehDubois
@markjaquith

"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."

@markjaquith
@growing_daniel

"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."

@growing_daniel
@garrytan

"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."

@garrytan
@donasarkar

"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."

@donasarkar
@frankdegods

"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"

@frankdegods
@BenjaminBadejo

"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."

@BenjaminBadejo
@OmarShahine

"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."

@OmarShahine
@hungv47

"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"

@hungv47
@Strong_Genetics

"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."

@Strong_Genetics
@MahmoudAshraf93

"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"

@MahmoudAshraf93
@jonahships_

"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"

@jonahships_
@AryehDubois

"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."

@AryehDubois
@markjaquith

"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."

@markjaquith

Product notes with docs-level depth.

ANNOUNCEMENT

Introducing the OpenClaw Foundation

The lobster grows up: OpenClaw is now a non-profit, with a full-time team, world-class partners, and a mission to bring personal AI to everyone.

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PRODUCT

Skill Workshop: Turn Agent Work Into Reusable Skills

Review, revise, and apply proposed skills before they change how OpenClaw agents work.

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SECURITY

OpenClaw Collaborates with NVIDIA for Stronger Agent Skill Security

Every ClawHub skill now ships with a Skill Card documenting what the skill does and where it came from, and is scanned by SkillSpector for hidden instructions and other agentic risks.

Read →

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.

Browser Control

It can browse the web, fill forms, and extract data from any site.

Full System Access

Read and write files, run shell commands, execute scripts. Full access or sandboxed—your choice.

Skills & Plugins

Extend with community skills or build your own. It can even write its own.

Works With Everything

Explore integrations

What people are building.

Real OpenClaw workflows shared by the community.

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THREAD

15+ 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.

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THREAD

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.

calendarbriefingsproductivity
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THREAD

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.

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THREAD

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 de

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Featured In

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TECHCRUNCH

OpenClaw 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.

Lucas Ropek
FAST COMPANY

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.

Fast Company
MICROSOFT BUILD

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."

Pavan Davuluri, EVP Windows + Devices
THE VERGE

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.

Russell Brandom

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