openclaw

Facts

Openness

Open source

Licence

MIT

Language

TypeScript

Pinned version

c074824 (2026-09-29)

Topics checked

31 of 33

Kind of agent

Conversational assistant

Source repository (opens another site)

What it does notably well

• Budgets

  48-hour wall-clock run timeout, on by default for main runs (0 = unlimited) with per-run overrides, enforced by a per-attempt timer that preserves the remaining budget across…

  Run-level retry-iteration budget scaled by auth-profile count (24 + 8 per profile, 32..160) with progress_continuation refunds, plus an idle-timeout cost-runaway breaker (5…

  Liveness watchdog that distinguishes mechanical request retries from semantic progress: repeated model requests count as stalled only until a typed run.progress/assistant output…

• Checkpoints and rewind

  Worktree snapshot as synthetic commit: before removing a managed checkout OpenClaw builds a tree from a temporary index (tracked plus non-ignored untracked files), writes it with…

  Append-only chat rewind: sessions.rewind repoints to the state before a chosen user message and keeps the pre-rewind transcript as an inactive branch that…

• Code mode

  Only two control tools reach the model, exec (title, code, restartSafe) and wait (runId); every other tool is hidden behind a catalog.