OpenClaw Newsletter

• Marshall Richards [TRENDING]: Installed OpenClaw on a $25 phone with full hardware access, creating "ClawPhone" — 939 retweets, 1,878 total engagement View tweet
• AI Influencer List [TRENDING]: OpenClaw creator @steipete featured in "best 20 accounts to follow in AI" alongside Karpathy and other top voices — 226 retweets, 452 total engagement View tweet
• Code Size Comparison: Developer highlights NANOBOT as ultra-lightweight alternative with just 4,000 lines of code versus OpenClaw's 430k+ lines — 3 retweets View tweet
• Chinese User: Reports successful podcast downloading (both video and audio) through OpenClaw — stable functionality confirmed View tweet

• OpenClaw repo reached 174,760 stars with 28,592 forks and 455 contributors as of February 8, 2026. View on GitHub • 4,607 open issues currently tracked, showing active community engagement and development momentum.

• akoscz fixed critical config migration bug where legacy files caused validation failures after upgrading from clawdbot to openclaw — PR #11602 (26 upvotes, 13 comments)
• Security enhancement by jmkritt requesting masked secrets to prevent agents from accessing raw API keys and protect against prompt injection attacks — Feature Request #10659 (12 upvotes)
• abdelsfane replaced hardcoded credential redaction with schema-driven approach using Zod annotations for more reliable sensitive data protection — PR #10697 (12 upvotes)
• wjlgatech added server-side TTS support to web chat using Microsoft Edge neural voices (free, no API key required) — PR #11745
• donghongfei implemented comprehensive OpenTelemetry tracing for GenAI interactions including prompt/response and tool calls — PR #8898

• OpenClaw Is Changing My Life - Personal experience piece gaining significant community traction (109 engagement score, 44 comments on HN)
• My First Week With OpenClaw: An AI That Actually Runs Your PC - Week-long hands-on review of OpenClaw's desktop automation capabilities
• Why OpenClaw Breaks at Scale - Technical analysis of scalability challenges teams encounter when deploying OpenClaw
• OpenClaw on DigitalOcean - One-click deployment now available on DigitalOcean Marketplace for easy cloud hosting
• The First AI Agent (OpenClaw) Malware Scare Is Here - Security concerns and potential risks of autonomous AI agents with system access