OpenClaw is a free, open-source AI agent that connects large language models to your real software. It can manage your email, browse the web, automate tasks, and a lot more. It also has a rough security track record. These articles cover what it is, how to set it up, and what to watch out for.
Anthropic just shipped Managed Agents — a fully hosted platform for running AI agents in the cloud. With OpenClaw sitting at 247K GitHub stars, the question is obvious: does the open-source darling still make sense?
OpenClaw is a free, open-source AI agent that connects LLMs to your actual software. It has 247k GitHub stars and a wild origin story involving trademark disputes and an OpenAI acquisition.
NemoClaw does not replace OpenClaw. It runs on top of it. Here is when you need one, the other, or both, and what the actual trade-offs are.
NVIDIA released NemoClaw, an open-source security stack that wraps OpenClaw AI agents in kernel-level sandboxing, local inference, and PII stripping. Here is what it actually does.
A straightforward walkthrough of getting NemoClaw running on Linux. One command installs it, a wizard configures it, and you get a sandboxed AI agent with PII stripping in about ten minutes.
Getting OpenClaw running takes about five minutes. Here is the full setup, from Node.js to your first working agent, plus the security settings you should change immediately.
OpenClaw has had three CVEs in 2026, a coordinated malware campaign on ClawHub, and over 135,000 exposed instances. Here is what went wrong and what you should do about it.