Openclaw.ai

OpenClaw, formerly known as Clawdbot or Moltbot is a personal AI assistant designed to perform real actions rather than just chat. It clears inboxes, sends emails, manages calendars, and checks in for flights, all accessible via familiar chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, or iMessage. Running locally on Mac, Windows, or Linux, it ensures privacy by keeping data on the user's machine, supporting Anthropic, OpenAI, or local models. Key differentiators include persistent memory that learns user preferences, timezone, and patterns over time, making it uniquely personalized. It features proactive behavior through heartbeats, cron jobs, reminders, and background tasks, acting autonomously without constant prompting. OpenClaw offers full system access for reading/writing files, running shell commands, executing scripts, and browser control to fill forms or extract data. As an open-source (MIT license) project with a growing community building skills via a simple system, it avoids vendor lock-in and walled gardens. Users interact in DMs or group chats, with multi-channel support, media handling, and a web control UI for management. Testimonials highlight its self-improving nature, such as setting up proxies, managing code sessions, running tests, and opening PRs. It's positioned as a versatile tool for personal, family, company, or team use, with capabilities like daily briefings, file organization across drives, and skill security via partners like VirusTotal.