OpenClaw (Formerly Moltbot/ClawdBot): Your AI Assistant, the Lobster Way

Jitendra Zaa — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:44:55 +0000

COMPLETE GUIDE 2026

OpenClaw (Formerly Moltbot/ClawdBot): Your AI Assistant, the Lobster Way 🦞

The open-source, self-hosted personal AI assistant with 347,000+ GitHub stars (most-starred software repo in GitHub history) — connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and more, performing real-world tasks while you sleep. Updated for v2026.4.12, Claude Opus 4.7, manifest-signed skills, and NVIDIA NemoClaw.

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Last Updated: April 29, 2026

Article Updated: April 29, 2026
Refreshed with the v2026.4.12 release notes, the React-overtaking 347K-star milestone, Claude Opus 4.7 pricing, NVIDIA NemoClaw enterprise stack, the manifest + eBPF security model, and the post-February security incidents (CVE-2026-25253, ClawJacked, the Meta-AI-director email-deletion postmortem). Originally published January 26, 2026.

What’s new in this April 2026 update

• Updated: GitHub stars 147K → 347K+ (passed React on March 3, 2026 — most-starred software repo in GitHub history). Discord ~60K, X 230K+, r/openclaw 450K members, contributors 1,730+.

• Updated: Pricing table reflects Claude Opus 4.7 ($5 / $25), Sonnet 4.6 ($3 / $15), Haiku 4.5 ($1 / $5) — Opus is now 3× cheaper than this article originally cited.

• Added: NVIDIA NemoClaw (announced GTC, March 16, 2026) — the enterprise on-ramp wrapping OpenClaw with NVIDIA OpenShell sandboxing.

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OpenClaw (Formerly Moltbot/ClawdBot): Your AI Assistant, the Lobster Way