Weekly Claws #5: Everyone's Gunning for OpenClaw

Claude can now use your computer.

Not just chat. Not just answer questions. Actually use it — open apps, navigate browsers, fill spreadsheets, click buttons. Anything you’d do at your desk, Claude Cowork can now do for you.

This isn’t a demo. It’s a shot across the bow. Anthropic just built the exact thing OpenClaw does — and they’re telling developers they don’t need anyone else.

And they’re not alone. Open-source alternatives are popping up too. Everyone’s gunning for the agent runtime space.

Let’s dive in. 🐾

🚀 AI News

🎯 Claude Cowork: Now It Uses Your Computer — Three big drops from Anthropic this week:

Computer Use — Claude can now operate your computer directly. Open apps, navigate browsers, fill spreadsheets, click through UIs. Research preview, macOS only.
Code Channels — Control Claude Code sessions through MCPs. Telegram and Discord support. Message from your phone, work on your desktop.
Dispatch Mode — Assign tasks from your phone, let Claude work on your desktop with full file access. One continuous conversation across devices.

Anthropic isn’t subtle. They just built the exact thing OpenClaw does — and they’re telling developers “we don’t need you.” The rivalry is heating up.

🔓 Hermes Agent — Nous Research — Another open-source autonomous agent dropped. MIT licensed, lives on your server, persistent memory, multi-platform (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, CLI), 40+ built-in tools, container hardening. OpenClaw isn’t alone anymore — the “agent runtime” category is getting crowded.

📦 OpenClaw: Three releases in two weeks — ClawHub plugin marketplace, MiniMax M2.7 + GPT-5.4-mini/nano, /btw side questions, OpenShell + SSH sandboxes, Exa/Tavily/Firecrawl integrations, plugin approval hooks, xAI Responses API, Teams support. Tokyo pre-ClawCon drop 🦞

🔌 Around the Web

Tools & Resources

🛠️ Ollama 0.18.1 — Web Search & Headless Mode — Ollama now ships with web search and web fetch plugins for OpenClaw. Local models can search the web and extract readable content. Plus new headless mode for Docker containers and CI/CD pipelines.
🛠️ Claw3D by @iamlukethedev — Now open source! A project for building AI workspaces. Already at 225+ stars and 41 forks since going public. “Clone it. Break it. Build something cool.”

😂 Fun

Eyes under different influences — Alcohol, Weed, Cocaine, and Trying to keep up with AI agents

That’s your weekly claws! See you next Monday. 👋

P.S. — If you’re running agents 24/7, set up some monitoring. “My AI went rogue and ordered 500 pizzas” is only funny when it happens to someone else.