OpenClaw
The AI That Actually Does Things.
Join thousands of developers automating their lives. From clearing inboxes to managing calendars, all from your favorite chat app.
Quick Start
curl -sSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash Installs Node.js, Python, and the OpenClaw CLI for you.
Capabilities
Runs on Your Machine
Mac, Windows, or Linux. Works with Anthropic, OpenAI, or local models. Private by default—your data stays yours.
Any Chat App
Chat via WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, or iMessage. Seamless in DMs and group conversations.
Persistent Memory
Remembers you and evolves over time. Your preferences, your context, your personalized AI assistant.
Browser Control
Navigate the web, fill out forms, and extract data from any website automatically.
Full System Access
Read and write files, execute shell commands, run scripts. Choose full access or sandboxed mode.
Skills & Plugins
Extend capabilities with community skills or create your own. It can even build new skills itself.
OpenClaw In Action
Watch real demos from the community. See what OpenClaw can do before you install.
play_circle More videos & community showcase arrow_forwardLatest Updates
OpenClaw 4.15: The Lobster Gets a New Brain and Learns to Watch Its Own Keys
Opus 4.7 becomes the default brain, image understanding ships in core, and a new Auth status card lets the lobster see—for the first time—how long the tokens in its hand still have. Memory is quietly moving too: LanceDB can now live on remote object storage, and dreaming splits out of inline blocks into per-day files. Not a feature-heavy release, but several defaults shifted. Worth reading before you upgrade.
OpenClaw 4.5–4.14: The Second Siege — Ten Days of Security Work You Probably Did Not Notice
Plugin archives now verify by SHA-256. The browser tool had its SSRF filter rewritten three times in ten days. A new exec-policy CLI lets you audit every command the lobster can run. None of this makes a demo video, but if you run OpenClaw on a machine that matters, this is the release run to read.
OpenClaw 4.5–4.12: The Lobster Dreams — Memory That Grows While You Sleep
Back in 3.28 we shipped an experimental dreaming engine as a footnote. Eight days and five releases later, it is a full system with three cooperative phases, a timeline view, a Memory Palace, and a way to backfill everything you wrote last month into durable memory without running the whole pipeline twice.
What People Say
"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 debugging sessions are my new normal"
@marvelgirl_eth"Just ran 'openclaw deploy' and watched it set up my entire k8s cluster, configure ingress, and deploy 12 microservices. What used to take me a week now takes 10 minutes."
@devops_mike"OpenClaw just refactored my entire React codebase to TypeScript, added proper error boundaries, and even wrote the unit tests. I'm genuinely speechless."
@sarahcodes"Asked OpenClaw to optimize my PostgreSQL queries. It analyzed the execution plans, added proper indexes, and reduced query time from 8s to 50ms. Wild."
@cloud_native_tom"The way OpenClaw understands my codebase context is insane. It knew exactly which components to modify without me even specifying the file paths."
@frontend_jenny"Ported my Python ML pipeline to Rust with OpenClaw. It handled unsafe blocks, lifetime annotations, and even optimized memory allocation. 40x performance boost."
@rustacean_dev"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 debugging sessions are my new normal"
@marvelgirl_eth"Just ran 'openclaw deploy' and watched it set up my entire k8s cluster, configure ingress, and deploy 12 microservices. What used to take me a week now takes 10 minutes."
@devops_mike"OpenClaw just refactored my entire React codebase to TypeScript, added proper error boundaries, and even wrote the unit tests. I'm genuinely speechless."
@sarahcodes"Asked OpenClaw to optimize my PostgreSQL queries. It analyzed the execution plans, added proper indexes, and reduced query time from 8s to 50ms. Wild."
@cloud_native_tom"The way OpenClaw understands my codebase context is insane. It knew exactly which components to modify without me even specifying the file paths."
@frontend_jenny"Ported my Python ML pipeline to Rust with OpenClaw. It handled unsafe blocks, lifetime annotations, and even optimized memory allocation. 40x performance boost."
@rustacean_dev"Finally tried my own @openclaw instance and I'm blown away. 🤯 This is unlike anything I've seen - the possibilities are virtually limitless, you just need imagination"
@ivanfioravanti"OpenClaw wrote our entire authentication system - JWT tokens, refresh logic, OAuth providers, rate limiting. Shipped to production same day. Investors are impressed."
@startup_alex"Built a complete ETL pipeline with OpenClaw. It connected to 5 different data sources, handled schema migrations, and even set up monitoring dashboards."
@data_lisa"Ran a security audit with OpenClaw on our codebase. Found 3 SQL injections, 2 XSS vulnerabilities, and suggested fixes with proper input sanitization. Incredible."
@security_emma"Asked OpenClaw to add offline support to my React Native app. It implemented SQLite caching, background sync, and conflict resolution. Took 20 minutes."
@mobile_chris"OpenClaw debugged a race condition in our distributed system that we'd been hunting for 3 weeks. Found it in under 5 minutes by analyzing the logs."
@backend_ninja"Finally tried my own @openclaw instance and I'm blown away. 🤯 This is unlike anything I've seen - the possibilities are virtually limitless, you just need imagination"
@ivanfioravanti"OpenClaw wrote our entire authentication system - JWT tokens, refresh logic, OAuth providers, rate limiting. Shipped to production same day. Investors are impressed."
@startup_alex"Built a complete ETL pipeline with OpenClaw. It connected to 5 different data sources, handled schema migrations, and even set up monitoring dashboards."
@data_lisa"Ran a security audit with OpenClaw on our codebase. Found 3 SQL injections, 2 XSS vulnerabilities, and suggested fixes with proper input sanitization. Incredible."
@security_emma"Asked OpenClaw to add offline support to my React Native app. It implemented SQLite caching, background sync, and conflict resolution. Took 20 minutes."
@mobile_chris"OpenClaw debugged a race condition in our distributed system that we'd been hunting for 3 weeks. Found it in under 5 minutes by analyzing the logs."
@backend_ninjaFrequently Asked Questions
Common questions about OpenClaw and how it works.