Product / UX / UI & API

OpenClaw

Local-first, self-hosted personal AI assistant ('any OS, any platform'). It runs an agent gateway that answers on the messaging channels you already use - WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage, Teams, Matrix and ~20 more - with companion apps for macOS/iOS/Android, voice (speak/listen), a live Canvas UI, and a skills/extensions SDK. Model-agnostic: the gateway routes to your chosen LLM backend.

MIT (repo LICENSE body is MIT; GitHub shows NOASSERTION due to a custom 'OpenClaw Foundation' copyright line; npm declares MIT). Community project led by Peter Steinberger (steipete). Created Nov 2025; ~379k stars, ~10.3M npm downloads/month.

Openness

5 high confidence

5.0

license: MIT(OSI
source: public
self-host: primary(local-first)
core-gated: ungated

Genuinely MIT open source; the NOASSERTION flag is a classifier artifact, not a restriction.

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-06-18
MIT text, Copyright OpenClaw Foundation

Adoption

5 high confidence

5.0

~379k stars and ~10.26M npm downloads/month - exceptional for a project under a year old.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/openclaw recorded 2026-06-18
npm openclaw, ~10.26M downloads/month

Capability

5 high confidence

5.0

Among the most ambitious open personal-assistant projects - unifies chat, voice, and many messaging surfaces; broader channel reach than Open WebUI/Jan/Khoj.

https://api.github.com/repos/openclaw/openclaw recorded 2026-06-18
real repo, 379k stars, TS, created 2025-11-24, active

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)