Personal assistant runtimes outside the editor: the -claw family and its auditable rewrites, the self-improving agents, and the compile targets down to RISC-V boards.
- 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, 246k stars, new paid tiers, and the channels to match.
- Nanobot - HKUDS’ readable Python agent runtime with the WebUI and channels bundled, 47k stars at alpha.
- NanoClaw - the auditable containerized OpenClaw rewrite, one process you can read in an afternoon.
- OpenClaw - the self-hosted personal assistant root of the -claw family, 389k stars and the 2026 provider-restriction saga.
- OpenWork - the MIT-core Cowork alternative built on OpenCode, whose MCP gateway makes skills portable across agents.
- PicoClaw - Sipeed’s Go assistant on $10 RISC-V boards in 10-20MB of RAM, the category as a compile target.
- 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.