All 158 Dependencies
Every package OpenClaw depends on, ranked by repo health score.
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI assistant gateway that runs entirely on your own computer and connects to the messaging apps and devices you already use — Discord, iMessage, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, Matrix, and more than 20 other channels — plus native companion apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, and Linux. A single Gateway process acts as the local control plane for sessions, tool execution, and channel connections; the same install works as a personal assistant on a laptop or as a shared team deployment, with configuration as the only difference.
Its defining decision is where things run: state, memory, and credentials stay on the user's own hardware rather than a vendor's servers, and the AI model or agent harness (Claude, Codex, or a local model) is a swappable plugin rather than something wired into the core. OpenClaw phones home for nothing beyond an optional daily version check, and feature telemetry is opt-in only. That "trusted gateway, untrusted execution" split extends to how the Gateway treats inbound messages from unpaired senders, and to an optional sandboxing layer for tools that would otherwise run directly on the host.
Extensibility is the other half of the design: 167 extension packages cover model providers (Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Amazon Bedrock, Azure, and dozens more), messaging channels, and device integrations, all built against a documented plugin SDK and distributed independently through ClawHub. Tools, skills, and Model Context Protocol servers extend what the assistant can actually do once it's connected to a channel.
OpenClaw is stewarded by the OpenClaw Foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) that employs the core engineering team and signs releases; it has no paid tier or hosted product, and is funded by sponsors including Amazon, OpenAI, Red Hat, and the University of Michigan. Originally built for Molty, a fictional lobster AI mascot, by Peter Steinberger (creator of PSPDFKit) and a large open-source community, the project has grown to nearly 390,000 GitHub stars and over 3,300 contributors in under a year.