OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.

OpenClaw, a personal AI assistant that runs locally on user devices, has seen an explosive rise in popularity since its start as a weekend project in late twenty twenty-five. The GitHub Blog reports that the project's repository has grown to approximately three hundred eighty-eight thousand stars and eighty thousand commits. Maintainers say the surge of AI-generated contributions has forced them to rethink trust signals, as some users have attempted to manipulate their reputation by duplicating existing pull requests. To manage the flood of activity, the team is now using AI tools to review AI-generated code while focusing on whether contributors truly understand the features they are submitting.

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