Personal assistant runtimes outside the editor: the -claw family and its auditable rewrites, the self-improving agents, the compile targets down to RISC-V boards, and the local-first platforms assistants run on.
- AnythingLLM - the one-click local-first desktop workspace: RAG workspaces, agents, MCP, and multi-user Docker.
- AstrBot - the AGPL-3.0 IM-platform veteran from 2022: 14-plus official chat platforms, a 1,000-plus-plugin marketplace, and an agent sandbox at 41.8k stars.
- Eigent - the Apache-2.0 Cowork desktop with CAMEL-based multi-agent workforces and a corrected-benchmark history.
- Hermes - Nous Research’s self-improving agent with the learning loop, about 253k stars, paid tiers live, and the channels to match.
- Nanobot - HKUDS’ readable Python agent runtime with the WebUI and channels bundled, 49k stars at alpha.
- NanoClaw - the auditable containerized OpenClaw rewrite, one process you can read in an afternoon.
- Octop - Tencent Cloud’s MIT multi-user self-hosted assistant: expert teams per household member, eight IM channels, ACP in both directions, 9.2k stars in three months.
- Open WebUI - the maximal self-hosted AI interface for Ollama and OpenAI-compatible backends, with the ecosystem’s most consequential license story.
- OpenClaw - the self-hosted personal assistant root of the -claw family, 392k stars and the 2026 provider-restriction saga.
- OpenWork - the MIT-core Cowork alternative built on OpenCode, whose MCP gateway makes skills portable across agents.
- OpenWorker - the Andrew Ng team’s governed MIT desktop coworker for security-review tasks, sandboxed through NVIDIA OpenShell, in open beta.
- PicoClaw - Sipeed’s Go assistant on $10 RISC-V boards in 10-20MB of RAM, the category as a compile target.
- PrivateGPT - Zylon’s Apache-2.0 API layer turning any local inference server into a Claude-style application backend.
- QwenPaw - the AgentScope team’s assistant with the broadest chat-channel matrix and five built-in security layers.
- ZeroClaw - the single Rust binary runtime, ownership as a compile-time property.
Its members are compared on shared rows in the Assistant Runtimes Feature Matrix.
Changes #
- 2026-08-27 - Added Hermes.
- 2026-08-27 - Added NanoClaw.
- 2026-08-27 - Added OpenClaw.
- 2026-08-27 - Added PicoClaw.
- 2026-08-27 - Added ZeroClaw.
- 2026-08-30 - Added Eigent.
- 2026-08-30 - Added Nanobot.
- 2026-08-30 - Added OpenWork.
- 2026-08-30 - Added QwenPaw.
- 2026-09-27 - Added AnythingLLM.
- 2026-09-27 - Added Open WebUI.
- 2026-09-27 - Added PrivateGPT.
- 2026-10-03 - Added OpenWorker.
- 2026-10-06 - Added AstrBot.
- 2026-10-07 - Added Octop.