Harness · openclaw/openclaw
OpenClaw
A local-first, always-on general agent — Markdown-file memory and a HEARTBEAT cadence that keeps it alive between tasks. Long the top app by all-time cumulative OpenRouter token usage; Hermes overtook it on daily volume in 2026.
aeqi builds one of the harnesses measured here. This board is in method preview and pre-registration — no performance scores are published yet, and we lead with our own losses, not our wins. Read the method & charter →
The facts
- Maintainer
- openclaw
- Source
- openclaw/openclaw
- License
- MIT
- Category
- General-purpose agent
- Headless run
- Yes — container mode (`--container` / OPENCLAW_CONTAINER)
- Native OpenRouter
- — can be pinned to one shared model
- Determinism notes
- Container per run is native. Pin via Docker tag/commit; note the built-in auto-updater can drift.
Where it sits
Performance scores land here only with published traces, under the pre-registered method. Until then, this profile is the fair-run readiness check: can we start OpenClaw headless and pin it to one shared model to isolate the scaffold?