# nearai/ironclaw

IronClaw is an Agent OS focused on privacy, security and extensibility

Repository: https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ironclaw
Homepage: https://www.ironclaw.com
Language: Rust
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: codeact, openclaw, rlm, rust, wasm
Last push: 2026-08-27T00:14:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 82/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 15
- inputs: {"age_days": 211, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 14, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 40}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 12607, forks 1488 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:59.412080+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, llm-inference, chatbot, security, plugin-system, scheduling, webhook, chat-interface, mcp
- domain: large-language-models, privacy, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: windows, rust, wasm, self-hosted, cli
- tags: 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

## Member repositories
- nearai/ironclaw (main) score 82

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.412080+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:13:55.884953+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:59.412080+00:00, sha d30576666da0)
  - homepage: https://www.ironclaw.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:25.222723+00:00, sha e6a05800481b)
  - site_page: https://docs.ironclaw.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:25.232743+00:00, sha 9a34e68c1a19)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/ironclaw (fetched 2026-08-29T08:10:25.235655+00:00, sha 5b3eb0703759)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.