Acknowledgements
CoderClaw wouldn't exist without giants to stand on. Here's where we came from and who we thank.
🦞 Built on OpenClaw
CoderClaw started as a fork of OpenClaw — the fantastic open-source personal AI assistant built by the openclaw team. OpenClaw gave us a rock-solid foundation: a battle-tested gateway runtime, multi-channel connectivity (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Signal, iMessage…), a reactive Lit-based dashboard UI, the plugin / skills infrastructure, and an opinionated project structure we could build on immediately.
🚀 How CoderClaw Extends OpenClaw
CoderClaw kept everything that makes OpenClaw great and added a focused developer-first orchestration layer on top.
Deep Code Knowledge
AST parsing, semantic code maps, dependency graphs, cross-file reference tracking, and Git history awareness — persisted to .coderClaw/.
Multi-Agent Orchestration
7 built-in specialist roles (Architect, Developer, Reviewer, Tester, Debugger, Refactorer, Documenter) with dynamic task lifecycle management and formal execution state machines.
Full Dev Lifecycle
PRD → Architecture → Task breakdown → Code → Review → Test → Debug → Refactor — all orchestrated in a single runtime, no IDE required.
Builderforce Integration
REST API at api.builderforce.ai for multi-tenant project and task management, agent registration, execution tracking, and audit trails — powered by Cloudflare Workers + Neon PostgreSQL (Builderforce replaces CoderClawLink).
Self-Hosted & Open
Your code stays on your machine. MIT-licensed. No IDE tether, no vendor cloud, no subscription ceiling.
Channel-Agnostic
Inherits all of OpenClaw's channel integrations — trigger coding workflows from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, or Discord just as easily as from the terminal.
📦 Get Started
Node ≥ 22 required.
📚 Open-Source Packages
CoderClaw is powered by an excellent ecosystem of open-source projects. We're grateful to every maintainer.
Reactive web components powering the dashboard UI.
Agent Client Protocol — structured agent ↔ gateway communication.
Strongly-typed JavaScript across the entire runtime.
Runtime schema validation for configs, tools, and payloads.
HTTP server powering the gateway REST surface.
WebSocket transport between the dashboard and gateway.
Project configuration, rules, and context persistence.
Headless browser control for web-scraping and automation skills.
Fast image processing for media-understanding pipelines.
Lightweight cron scheduler for recurring agent runs.
CLI argument parsing for the coderclaw command.
High-performance HTTP client for provider integrations.
Fast unit and integration testing framework.
PDF parsing support for document-understanding skills.
JSON schema generation for typed tool definitions.
Slack channel integration.
Telegram bot framework behind the Telegram channel.
Markdown rendering in the dashboard chat view.
The framework powering coderclaw.ai itself.
Type-safe ORM used in Builderforce for PostgreSQL.
Edge-first web framework for the Builderforce API.
⚖️ License
CoderClaw is released under the MIT License. Use it, fork it, ship it.