OpenClaw Surpasses React to Become the Most-Starred Software Project on GitHub

Re:OpenClaw Surpasses React to Become the Most-Starred Softw... by mercwear on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:35AM (#47218456)

Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally: - Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output - Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them) - Replace web search by asking openclaw

It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to play with.

I am messing with NanoClaw now and it's pretty much the same but only support Claude (uses code to do everything)

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Re:OpenClaw Surpasses React to Become the Most-Starred Softw... by dmd on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:40AM (#47218536)

I don't see how any of those require a constant-heartbeat loop. Those all work just fine in claude code / cowork.

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Re:OpenClaw Surpasses React to Become the Most-Starred Softw... by vanillameow on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:45AM (#47218610)

And in reality most of what does need a heartbeat loop can also easily be automated by just asking Claude to set up a cronjob. I think genuinely the most "novel" thing about something like OpenClaw is just that it "feels" more like a "real entity", like a partner rather than a chatbot, and for some reason that resonates with people. Whether that's by itself kind of a huge red flag or kind of a nothingburger, everyone has to decide for themselves.

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Re:OpenClaw Surpasses React to Become the Most-Starred Softw... by rune-dev on Monday March 02, 2026 @10:56AM (#47219594)

Do you really need an AI agent to reboot a computer?

This takes maybe 10 minutes to write a script for…

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