clawbot - Personal AI Assistant

Clawbot presents OpenClaw as a powerful, always-on personal AI assistant that runs on your own hardware and connects directly to the tools you already use in daily life. It is designed not just as a chatbot, but as a configurable agent that can take real actions on your computer and across the internet, with a strong emphasis on privacy, openness, and extensibility. The site positions OpenClaw as an evolution of earlier prototypes (Clawdbot and Moltbot), now consolidated into a mature open-source project that can live in your messaging apps and act on your behalf around the clock.

A central theme of the website is that OpenClaw is self-hosted and “local-first,” meaning the core service runs as a persistent Node.js process on your own machine or server, rather than in a vendor-controlled cloud. This architecture allows the assistant to access local files, system commands, and browsers while keeping configuration data and long-term memory stored on disk in formats you can inspect and version-control yourself, such as Markdown files. The site repeatedly stresses that there is no subscription and no lock-in: you either supply your own API keys for cloud models like Claude, GPT, or Gemini, or you connect fully local models, giving you flexibility over both cost and data residency.