OpenClaw — Hanns-Seidel Foundation · 2026

Wo stehst du auf dem
KI-Agent-Spektrum?

Frage 1 von 4

Wie ist deine Erfahrung mit KI-Agenten?

Frage 2 von 4

What would you build with OpenClaw?

Frage 3 von 4

Was ist deine größte Sorge?

Frage 4 von 4

Voller Would you give an AI agent full control over your computer?

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Thanks for your answers!

Results on slide 28 — continue to the presentation.

OpenClaw vs ChatGPT

What's the difference from ChatGPT?

ORF Interview — 0:45 min

What is OpenClaw?

Three Levels of AI Integration

🔨

#1 AI as a Tool

Human operates tool

You type prompts, AI gives answers. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini.

Scaling: Low

👔

#2 AI as an Employee

Human delegates & supervises

You give tasks, AI executes independently. Coding Agents, Automations.

Scaling: Medium

🖥️

#3 AI as an Operating System

Human defines goals

OS-Agent manages context, tools, skills & rules. Learning loop. That's OpenClaw.

Scaling: High

November 2025

How it all began

Peter Steinberger, the man who sold PSPDFKit for ~$100M, was sitting semi-retired in a café in Madrid — and built an AI assistant that creates its own tools.

November 24, 2025

First commit under the name Warelay

November 25, 2025

Renamed to Clawdbot

An open-source AI agent running on your own machine, powered by Claude via a spoofed Max subscription. It didn't just answer questions — it wrote code, executed commands and autonomously built its own tools when needed.

The Aha Moment

The Aha Moment — The agent just does it

TED Talk April 2026 — 2:57 – 3:12

January 26, 2026

Then it went viral

🚀

250k Stars in ~60 days

Surpasses React's 10-year record. The fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub history.

📞

Restaurant Demo

When an OpenTable booking failed, Clawdbot called the restaurant on its own via ElevenLabs.

🖥️

Mac Mini Spike

Der "Always-On Agent"-Use Case trieb Mac Mini Verkäufe. Steinberger musste posten: "Bitte kauft keinen Mac Mini — sponsert lieber einen Contributor."

250k

GitHub Stars

~60

Tage bis 250k

#1

Schnellstes OSS-Projekt

The First Controversy

Der OAuth-Streit

Clawdbot nutzte Claude Codes OAuth-Tokens — ein $20/Monat Pro-Abo ermöglichte unbegrenzte Agenten-Nutzung. Anthropic war nicht amüsiert.

9. Januar 2026

Anthropic sperrt den Zugang

19. February 2026

ToS-Update um Lücken zu schließen

Der Streisand-Effekt — jede Sperre machte es berühmter.

Rebranding Chaos

Markenstreit, Krypto-Scammer & Moltbook

November 24

Warelay → Clawdbot

Januar 2026

Anthropic C&D-Schreiben — Clawdbot muss weg

27. Januar

Moltbot — nur 24 Stunden

28. Januar

Moltbook explodiert — Matt Schlicht, 37k Agents, 1M Besucher, Meta-Übernahme

30. Januar

OpenClaw — 100k Stars am selben Tag 🦞

GitHub Star History

The fastest-growing open-source project of all time

OpenClaw vs. React vs. Linux — star-history.com

In his own words

Steinberger on the vision behind the project

Steinberger — Vision hinter OpenClaw

The Power of Open Source

This runs on YOUR computer.
No cloud feature.

Merkmal	ChatGPT "Computer Use"	OpenClaw
Verfügbarkeit	Hinter Abo gesperrt	Open Source, kostenlos
Ausführungsumgebung	Sandboxed VM	Lokal mit vollem Zugriff
Anpassbarkeit	Begrenzt	Unbegrenzte Anpassung
Datenschutz	Cloud-abhängig	100% lokal möglich
Tools / Plugins	Von OpenAI vordefiniert	Agent baut eigene Tools

What is OpenClaw?

The OS-Agent — Four Pillars

📝

Skills

Executes processes.

→ Write proposals
→ Onboard customers
→ Process invoices
→ Plan campaigns
→ Resolve support requests

📂

Context

Loads necessary data.

→ Documentation
→ Project history
→ Product catalog
→ Emails
→ Meetings

🔧

Tools

Uses appropriate systems.

→ Mail & Calendar
→ CRM
→ Intranet
→ Marketing Cloud
→ Project Management

📋

Rules

Maintains governance.

→ Who decides what?
→ What can AI do autonomously?
→ What reviews exist?
→ Where is it documented?
→ How often is it updated?

🤖 OS-Agent prepares, human decides.

Februaryy 14, 2026

Steinberger wechselt zu OpenAI

Meta und OpenAI machten Angebote — Meta bot einen mittleren neunstelligen Betrag. Steinbergers Bedingung: OpenClaw bleibt Open Source.

🧑‍💻

Der Gründer

Geht zu OpenAI. Hinterlässt ein Projekt mit 1.075+ Contributors.

🏛️

Das Projekt

Wird in eine unabhängige Stiftung überführt. Open Source bleibt unantastbar.

The Big Picture

"OpenClaw ist eine Mentalität, keine Software."

Die Idee, dass ein KI-Agent auf deinem Rechner leben, Zugriff auf deine Tools haben, deinen Context verstehen und autonom arbeiten soll — das ist der echte Durchbruch.

Open Source Forks

Eine kambrische Explosion

🐍

Nanobot

Python

🐹

PicoClaw

Go

💙

NanoClaw

TypeScript

🦀

ZeroClaw

Rust

41+ Alternativen bis March 2026.

Jede Sprache. Jede Plattform. Der Geist von OpenClaw kennt keine Grenzen.

The Commercial Wave

Then came the one-click setups

🌙 KimiClaw

Moonshot AI — First-Party Integration

☁️ MoltWorker

Cloudflare — Cloud-hosted für $5/mo

⚡ MaxClaw

MiniMax — Open Source API Integration

🤖 Meta / Manus.ai

$2B+ Übernahme, verteilte Agenten

🇳🇴 EasyClaw

Norwegen — Desktop + Chrome + Hosted

🤖 FreeBot

freebot.clawsunited.com — Free bot for everyone

"Open Source schafft die Innovation. Kommerzielle Wrapper machen sie zugänglich."

Real-World Use Cases

What people actually do with it — Personal

📅

Calendar

Organize appointments, set reminders, detect conflicts

📧

Email

Sort inbox, auto-reply, summaries

🏠

Home Automation

Lights, heating, blinds — control via chat

👥

Group Organization

Events planen, Abstimmungen, Participants koordinieren

💡

Brainstorming

Develop, structure, prioritize ideas

🐱

Cat Tracking

Analyze GPS tracker data, visualize routes

🛒

eBay Bot

Monitor prices, auto-bid, find deals

🍳

Cookbook

Collect recipes, create shopping lists, plan meal prep

Real-World Use Cases

Developer & Business

🏡

Real Estate Purchase Help

Compare offers, calculate financing, location analysis, review documents

🌐

Website Development

From concept to deployment — the agent codes, tests and deploys

📊

Präsentationserstellung

Research content, build slides, adjust design — like this one

🚀

Business Model Development

Market analysis, Business Model Canvas, Pitch Deck, competitive comparison

"This presentation was built by an OpenClaw agent and edited live."

The Ecosystem

OpenClaw is the mothership — 57,000+ Skills

Core
OpenClaw

→

Forks
41+ Varianten

→

Commercial
One-Click-Setups

→

Community
1M+ Nutzer

Innovation fließt nach unten — und wieder nach oben. Jeder Fork bringt neue Ideen zurück ins Kern-Projekt.

Shipping Speed

6 months of relentless releases

November 2025

Launch as Warelay / Clawdbot

January 29, 2026

Auth-Rework + Rebranding zu OpenClaw

February

Memory System + Opus 4.6 · 250k GitHub Stars · Enterprise Partnerships

March

Browser Automation · Multimodal Memory · Sub-Agents

April

Claude Opus 4.7 · Gemini TTS · Cloud Memory (LanceDB) · GPT-5 Support

Today

Version 2026.4.15 — 68,000+ Pull Requests, daily updates

The DNA

`soul.md` & `heartbeat.md`

What makes an AI agent more than a tool?
The soul.md gives the agent a personality — name, character, boundaries.

🧬

soul.md

Defines the agent's identity & values. Who am I? What's my purpose? What ethical boundaries do I follow?

A persistent personality layer that survives across sessions.

💓

heartbeat.md

A periodic self-check: What open tasks do I have? What goals am I pursuing? What changed since the last tick?

Turns a reactive chat into a proactive, continuously running agent.

First Encounter

When the agent wakes up for the first time

"Blank slate, no memories yet. Fresh start." — This is how every agent relationship begins.

The Foundation

Built on Claude Code

OpenClaw wurde immer von Anthropics Modellen betrieben.

🧠

Erweitertes Memory-System

Persistente Erinnerungen über Sitzungen. Agent lernt und wächst.

🌐

Remote Control

Agent empfängt Aufgaben von überall — mobile, Web, API.

🔁

/loop Always-On Agents

Dauerhaft laufende Agenten, die proaktiv handeln ohne manuellen Trigger.

Hauptunterschied: Claude Code bleibt auf Dev-Workflows beschränkt. OpenClaw ist ein General-Purpose Life Agent.

Contrarian Take

Kein MCP. Nur CLIs.

"LLMs sind richtig gut mit Unix. Du kannst so viele Tools haben wie du willst und es funktioniert einfach."

❌

Kein MCP

Model Context Protocol — komplex, overhead-lastig, schwer zu debuggen für Agenten-Use-Cases.

✅

Shell-First

CLIs, Bash, Unix-Pipes. Simple, bewährt, von LLMs nativ verstanden. Der Agent baut seine eigenen Tools als Shell-Skripte.

Controversies & Security

Mit großer Macht kommt großes Risiko

🎭

Prompt Injection

Bösartige Websites kapern den Agenten durch versteckte Anweisungen.

⚠️

512 Schwachstellen

Davon 8 kritisch. Volles Dateisystem-Zugriff macht Exploits besonders gefährlich.

🦠

824+ bösartige Skills

Im ClawHub Skill-Store entdeckt. Malware als "nützliche Tools" getarnt.

🌐

135.000+ exponierte Instanzen

Öffentlich zugänglich ohne Authentifizierung. Remote-Übernahme möglich.

Power cuts both ways. The community is working hard on mitigations.

Sources: SecurityScorecard STRIKE, Bitsight, ProArch, OpenClawAI

Security

Guardrails for Deployment

🔒

Isolated Environment

Own VM or VPS — never on the production workstation

🛡️

No Open Internet

Make gateway accessible only via VPN, SSH tunnel, or Tailscale

👀

Review Skills

Read code before installing — ClawHub is not a vetted App Store

⚙️

Use Exec Policies

openclaw exec-policy configure: What can the agent do without asking?

🔑

Rotate API Keys

Short token lifetimes, regular rotation, secrets not in openclaw.json

📋

Consider GDPR

Data flows to LLM providers — consciously limit personal data

The Implication

80% der Apps werden verschwinden

"Wozu brauche ich MyFitnessPal? Mein Agent weiß bereits, dass ich schlechte Entscheidungen treffe."

📅

Calendar-Apps

Agent koordiniert Termine direkt in deinen Systemen.

📊

Produktivitäts-Apps

Agent verwaltet Tasks, Prioritäten und Follow-ups autonom.

🛒

Shopping-Apps

Agent kennt deinen Geschmack, Budget und kauft für dich ein.

Live Results

What the audience thinks

AI Agent Experience

Agents don't really mean anything to me—

OpenClaw gehört, nichts probiert—

OpenClaw and co — I'm in—

Power Claw — Agents are running—

What would you build with OpenClaw?

Personal Assistant—

Home Automation (Smart Home Control)—

Build Websites and Apps—

Be Creative (Games, Brewing Beer)—

Biggest Concern

My data and passwords on the internet—

Costs running out of control—

The bot running out of control—

Nothing — mine can do anything—

Would you give an AI agent full control over your computer?

Sure, what could go wrong—

In an isolated environment, yes—

Only with personal approval of commands—

Never!—

Bonus Tip

Steinberger on Vibecoding

Lex Fridman Podcast — Peter Steinberger · ab 1:47h

lexfridman.com/peter-steinberger

Get Started

Official Resources

🦞

Agents, OpenClaw, n8n, Claude Code,
Digitale Geschäftsmodelle, Transformation

🎯

GO! Institut

AI Transformation Partner
Consulting, Workshops, Implementation

go-institut.com

🚀

GO! Entrepreneur

AI First Company Builder
Business Models, Startups, Scaling

go-entrepreneur.org

🦞

Claws United & Meetup

OpenClaw Community
Meetup Munich, Exchange, Networking

clawsunited.com

🤖

FreeBot

OpenClaw for everyone
Free personal bot — start immediately

freebot.clawsunited.com