The Enterprise Evaluation Framework for OpenClaw

What is OpenClaw and Why did 160,000 Developers Drop What They're Doing? OpenClaw is an open-source, autonomous AI agent that connects large language models to your computer, your accounts, and your tools. It reads your email, writes code, manages files, browses the web, and executes shell commands, all without asking for permission at every step. Created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger and released in November 2025, OpenClaw attracted over 150,000 GitHub stars and 2 million visitors in a single week after going viral in January 2026. By mid-February, Steinberger had joined OpenAI to lead their "next generation of personal agents." The security numbers are a bit less impressive. Within the first 24 hours of scanning, Bitsight's STRIKE team identified over 40,000 exposed OpenClaw instances. Bitdefender later counted 135,000+ publicly accessible instances, many over unencrypted HTTP. SecurityScorecard found that 63% of observed deployments were vulnerable, with 12,812 instances e