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title: Assistant runtimes
created: 2026-09-24
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status: in progress
tags: [agents, assistant-runtimes]
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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](eigent/index.md) - the Apache-2.0 Cowork desktop with CAMEL-based multi-agent workforces and a corrected-benchmark history.
- [Hermes](hermes/index.md) - Nous Research's self-improving agent with the learning loop, 246k stars, new paid tiers, and the channels to match.
- [Nanobot](nanobot/index.md) - HKUDS' readable Python agent runtime with the WebUI and channels bundled, 47k stars at alpha.
- [NanoClaw](nanoclaw/index.md) - the auditable containerized OpenClaw rewrite, one process you can read in an afternoon.
- [OpenClaw](openclaw/index.md) - the self-hosted personal assistant root of the -claw family, 389k stars and the 2026 provider-restriction saga.
- [OpenWork](openwork/index.md) - the MIT-core Cowork alternative built on OpenCode, whose MCP gateway makes skills portable across agents.
- [PicoClaw](picoclaw/index.md) - Sipeed's Go assistant on $10 RISC-V boards in 10-20MB of RAM, the category as a compile target.
- [QwenPaw](qwenpaw/index.md) - the AgentScope team's assistant with the broadest chat-channel matrix and five built-in security layers.
- [ZeroClaw](zeroclaw/index.md) - the single Rust binary runtime, ownership as a compile-time property.

Its members are compared on shared rows in the [Assistant Runtimes Feature Matrix](assistant-runtimes-feature-matrix/index.md).

## 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.