app · Peter Steinberger (@steipete), now maintained by openclaw foundation
openclaw
openclaw (originally Clawdbot, Nov 2025; renamed Moltbot Jan 27 2026; then openclaw) is an open-source personal AI agent created by Peter Steinberger (@steipete), who announced on February 14, 2026, that he was joining OpenAI and the project would move to a foundation while remaining open-source. The project reached 247,000 GitHub stars by that date — a remarkable growth trajectory in under four months. The concept is simple: run an AI agent on your own machine and talk to it through messaging apps you already use — WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord, Slack, Google Chat, iMessage, or 15+ others. The agent can manage email, read and write calendar events, browse the web autonomously, control smart home devices, run shell scripts, and maintain a persistent memory that personalizes across sessions. It supports Claude, GPT, and local models via Ollama, so you can choose which AI model handles your tasks. The Go plan on opencode.ai is unrelated — openclaw itself is MIT-licensed and free.
What it can help with
- personal-agent
- messaging-integration
- local-llm
- persistent-memory
- home-automation
- email-management
- calendar-sync
- shell-scripting