nearai/ironclaw

Health v2 · maintenance only

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12607 stars · 1488 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

IronClaw is an open-source, Rust-based 'Agent OS' and personal AI assistant that runs locally or on NEAR AI Cloud, with a WebUI, terminal, and chat-channel interfaces. It emphasizes privacy and security via encrypted local storage, WASM sandboxing, process isolation, and multi-provider LLM support, with self-expanding tooling and persistent memory.

Use cases

• run a private AI assistant that keeps my data local and encrypted
• triage my email inbox automatically every morning
• get a daily briefing from my calendar and email
• monitor Hacker News or Twitter for mentions of my product
• watch deployment health and alert me in Slack or Telegram
• parse PDF invoices into a spreadsheet automatically
• give an AI agent access to my tools without exposing my API keys

When to choose

• you want a self-hosted, privacy-first AI agent with encrypted credentials and sandboxed tool execution
• you need an assistant reachable from web, terminal, Slack, or Telegram with scheduled jobs and persistent memory
• you want to extend agent capabilities on the fly with a signed tool/skill catalog

When to avoid

• you need a lightweight library to embed agent logic in your own application rather than a standalone assistant
• you require fully offline operation without any LLM provider API access
• you need a mature enterprise agent platform with long-term vendor support

Facets

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agent-framework llm-inference chatbot security plugin-system scheduling webhook chat-interface mcp large-language-models privacy self-hosted developer-tools windows rust wasm self-hosted cli personal-ai-assistant wasm-sandbox encrypted-secrets multi-provider-llm agent-os near-ai self-expanding-tools persistent-memory ai-agents automation macos linux web-server telegram discord

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