OpenClaw Architecture and Insights | techaways
February 16, 2026
OpenClaw (a.k.a Claudbot) is an open-source personal AI assistant (MIT licensed) created by Peter Steinberger that has quickly gained traction with over 180,000 stars on GitHub at the time of writing this blogs. Lots of traction, internet buzz and usecases that evolve from here. I am going to cover something else, what makes this different and really powerful. Its the Architecture and how it was productised .
OpenClaw has been a sensation like few others in the technology space in many years. Launched only back in November 2025, it is now the most starred project ever on GitHub and incredibly widely used, at least by early adopters.
It points in the direction of what future agentic AI systems might look and feel like, and how does it do its work? Well, it’s an open source project, so we can inspect its inner workings, which is what Navan Tirupathi has done here. If you want to learn more about how OpenClaw works, read on.
