Open source· self-hosted AI for humans

Your AI. Your Server.
Your Rules.

OpenClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that connects to all your channels — Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp and more. Powered by Claude, GPT, or any LLM. 100% yours.

Deploy in Minutes Star on GitHub

MIT licensed No telemetry Runs on $5 VPS

~/openclaw — bash

Private by design

Your conversations, files and memory never leave your server. No cloud middleman, no logs sold to anyone.

One brain, every app

Talk to the same assistant from Telegram, Discord, the Web UI — context follows you across channels.

Five minutes to live

Single Docker command. Bring your own keys for Claude, OpenAI, or any local model. No vendor lock-in.

Features

Built for the next decade of personal computing.

An assistant that lives where your data lives. Compose skills, swap models, and integrate any channel — without rewriting the stack.

Privacy-first

End-to-end on your hardware. Encrypted memory store, no third-party analytics, full audit log of every tool call.

E2E Audit log Zero-telemetry

Multi-channel

Native adapters for Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, Slack, SMS — plus a sleek browser Control UI for power use.

Telegram Discord WhatsApp + 6 more

Skills system

Drop a Python or TypeScript file into skills/ and your claw can code, fetch weather, run healthchecks — anything.

coding-agent weather healthcheck

Multi-model router

Claude for reasoning. GPT for vision. A local Llama for cheap chat. Route per-skill, per-channel, or per-message.

Claude GPT-4o Local LLM

Self-hosted

One docker compose up deploys the runtime, Control UI, queue and vector store. Works on a $5 VPS.

Docker Caddy SQLite

Open source

MIT licensed. Fork it, audit it, sell it, ship your own. The community ships a new skill every week.

MIT Public roadmap PRs welcome

How it works

Three steps. About five minutes.

From a fresh VPS to a personal assistant pinging you on Telegram — no DevOps PhD required.

Spin it up

Pull the container, set your domain, hit go. Caddy handles HTTPS automatically.

$ curl -fsSL claw.sh | sh

Connect channels

Paste your Telegram or Discord token in the Control UI. Adapters connect in seconds.

$ claw adapter add telegram
   ↳ paste BOT_TOKEN

Talk to your claw

Send a message from any channel. Add skills as you grow — it's just files in a folder.

@you remind me to water the plants at 7
✓ scheduled

Channels

Speaks every protocol your friends do.

Discord

Signal

Slack

Email / SMS

Ready when you are

Deploy your own claw in minutes.

One command, one $5 server, infinite possibilities. The assistant that answers to you — and only you.