OpenClaw Blog

Optimization guides, deployment playbooks, and practical tutorials for running OpenClaw at scale.

Opinion
Anthropic's Biggest Miss of 2026 Just Happened.

Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw — 180K+ stars, used in 100+ countries, Claude Opus as default model. He was Anthropic's biggest unpaid evangelist. They sent a cease-and-desist. OpenAI sent a job offer. Sam Altman called him a genius. Zuckerberg argued about Claude vs. Codex with him on the phone. One of these was a $100B-class mistake.

Opinion
Your Team Isn't Bottlenecked by Code Production. It Never Was.

Everyone's talking about their teams like they were at peak efficiency, bottlenecked only by typing speed. METR study: devs with AI are 19% slower but believe they're 20% faster. AI code has 1.7x more issues. Your best engineers are drowning in slop. Your CFO is having a meltdown. Here's what's actually happening.

Security
OpenClaw's Security Nightmare: 341 Malicious Skills, 135K Exposed Instances

Researchers audited all 2,857 ClawHub skills and found 341 malicious ones distributing Atomic Stealer malware. Bitsight tracked 30,000+ exposed instances growing to 135K+ by mid-February. 63% exploitable, 12,812 vulnerable to RCE. Here's the full breakdown and how to protect yourself.

Analysis
195K Stars in 66 Days: Inside OpenClaw's Explosive Growth and Ecosystem

A weekend hobby project hit 100K GitHub stars in 48 hours. It took React 8 years. Three name changes in 4 days, a trademark cease-and-desist that backfired, Moltbook's 1.5M AI bots, and an ecosystem explosion from ESP32 to enterprise cloud. The full story.

Release
OpenClaw v2026.2.6: Opus 4.6, Safety Scanner, and the Security Hardening Era

The most security-focused OpenClaw release yet. Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex support, a new skill code safety scanner responding to ClawHavoc, credential redaction, xAI Grok integration, Unbrowse browser automation, and critical cron fixes. Everything that matters.

Guide
Reduce Your OpenClaw AI Costs by 97%

I dug into GitHub issues, API pricing docs, and real billing data to find every cost optimization that actually works. The hidden 93.5% token waste bug, session initialization, model routing, free Ollama heartbeats, prompt caching, and monitoring. Six config-level changes backed by real data.