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blensoryesterday at 11:21 AM1 replyview on HN

The more I think about openclaw, the more it seems to be for AI agents what ROS is for robotics.

openclaw defines how to interact with distributed nodes ( how those provide the capabilities to the "orchestrator" ) but the real benefit are many task specific nodes that when put together make up something much bigger than the sum of it's parts


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embedding-shapeyesterday at 11:46 AM

> openclaw defines how to interact with distributed nodes

Does it actually? AFAIK, there is no "specification" or "protocol", it's a cobbled together "platform" you run, with a bunch of integrations, but none of that is specified by openclaw itself. Happy to be corrected though, I only spent one weekend with openclaw before tearing it down.

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