OpenClaw

The viral open-source personal agent (about 391K GitHub stars), shipping fast under its foundation; skill-marketplace security is the known weak spot.

What it offers

OpenClaw 2.0

Self-hosted agent you message through WhatsApp, Telegram and similar apps. Uses skills and a scheduled “heartbeat”. Release 2.0 in August.

Foundation

Its creator joined OpenAI in February; the project moved to an independent foundation.

Recent news

• 10 Oct 2026OpenClaw ships its v2026.10.1 releaseDevelopment stays rapid under the foundation; this release focuses on update reliability.GitHub ↗
• 2 Oct 2026Tencent AI-Infra-Guard joins the ClawScan review of ClawHub skillsHardens security for the skills marketplace, a known weak spot; the repo has about 391K GitHub stars.Gradually.ai ↗
• 14 Sep 2026OpenClaw ships four stable releases in eight daysDensest release cycle yet, focused on credential safety and hardening as the project maturesBig Hat Group ↗
• 5 Sep 2026OpenClaw 2026.9.2 merges 1,247 PRs, adds GPT-6 and Swarm sub-agentsMulti-agent orchestration on by default shows the open-source agent keeping pace with commercial rivalsBetterClaw ↗
• 24 Jun 2026More malicious OpenClaw skills threaten AI supply chainThe ClawHub skill marketplace has become a malware vector, a key enterprise riskDark Reading ↗
• 9 Jun 2026OpenClaw agent falls for phishing and leaks AWS keysTest showed the agent emailing credentials to an attacker, highlighting social-engineering risk for autonomous agentsBleepingComputer ↗
• 4 May 2026SAP moves to block OpenClaw and other unauthorized agentsEnterprise vendors are starting to wall off rogue personal agents from business systemsThe Information ↗
• 31 Mar 2026OpenClaw reaches 500,000 instances with no enterprise kill switchAdoption at scale is outrunning governance, and CISOs lack central controlVentureBeat ↗
• 12 Mar 2026China embraces OpenClaw, then moves to restrict itChinese authorities barred state firms and agencies from running it on office computers over security fearsFast Company ↗
• 3 Mar 2026OpenClaw passes React as GitHub's most-starred software projectReached about 250K stars in roughly 60 days, the fastest-growing repo in GitHub historyThe New Stack ↗
• 15 Feb 2026OpenClaw creator Steinberger joins OpenAI; project moves to a foundationOpenAI backs the project while it stays open source under independent foundation governanceTechCrunch ↗