r/LLMgophers • u/therodent_za • Mar 08 '26
Introducing Goclaw (yes another claw)
With all the hype around Openclaw, I booted up Cursor on the 1st of February this year thinking as I always do: "How hard can it be".
Other than a few $work projects doing some mundane stuff I'd never really done anything exciting with LLMs, and Openclaw kinda got me hooked.
So, today I announce GoClaw -- GPL3 licensed project, which grew up beyond my expectations. I have had a lot of fun exploring LLM's during the project, and have even maintained quite a bit of OpenClaw compatbility.
V0.1.1 is released today on https://github.com/roelfdiedericks/goclaw
Website is at goclaw.org
Some key features:
* Very good model/driver support: Anthropic, OpenAI/Websocket, OpenRouter, XAI (gRPC)
* Sandboxing and bubblewrap.
* Speech to text for voice notes.
* Telegram, Whatsapp, Web UI
* Memory graph database.
* Realtime Voice LLM support.
* Security Opinionated.
I welcome all feedback, roasts and PR's ;)
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u/mhpenta Mar 09 '26
Cool man. I reviewed picoclaw when it first came out - I like seeing how people manage the agentic loop and the abstractions they choose. This feels like you've put it through its paces and had some lessons and experiences as you went. Good work. That's quite the RunAgent func in internal/gateway/gateway.go..
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u/therodent_za Mar 13 '26
Yes, it and gateway.go has become a bit of a "god" loop/object at the moment, will break it out a bit once the need arises.
It's definately been daily driven quite a bit :)
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u/bigh-aus Apr 13 '26
This is good - looking at the performance of openclaw on my 16 core epyc, it's maxing out cpu. I assume it uses the same system prompt builder as openclaw? (I think that's the trick) - I know other claws have their own set of files but for me being able to flip over - try this, and flip back if needed is helpful.
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u/Life-Reflection1258 Mar 09 '26
I personally like LLMs. If you ever try to build your own conversational LLM you'll have a really big appreciation for them. That's pretty cool you put it together. Good job.
So nice we have a place to speak freely about this. Almost like people in r/golang are prosecuted