OpenClaw Machines - Enterprise-grade OpenClaw with Firecracker microVMs
Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise
OpenClaw Machines is an open-source platform that transforms your own Linux servers into a secure, scalable cloud for AI agents. By leveraging Firecracker microVMs, it provides true hardware isolation for every agent, ensuring safety for untrusted code while keeping data and keys under your control. The system features a Go-based control plane, Cloudflare edge routing, and native MCP integrations for tools like GitHub and Google Workspace. Designed for teams, it offers a flat cost model where you pay for one server but run as many isolated agents as the hardware allows, combining the security of bare metal with the flexibility of a managed service.
Run as many isolated OpenClaw agents as you need, on hardware you own.
- SimianSci
My team fully abandoned our attempts to make OpenClaw or Claw-like agents work for us.
We invested a sizable chunk of our R&D budget to setting various Claws up to help our software and QA teams. It took about a week after launch for the team to fully sour on the idea of using these systems.
The biggest feedback we collected was that any tasks they assigned to the Claw systems would turn into tangled messes often requiring significant time investment to understand, and mostly ending in the team scraping the code changes over quality concerns.
The team really struggled to find anything these Claw systems could be tasked with that wouldnt end in poor results, So we ended up scraping the idea entirely. I think it will be quite a few more years until these types of systems are appropriate for the enterprise.
- aliasxneo
I don't know about other people, but the name "OpenClaw" immediately signals jank and wrecklesness to me. Like, as a consumer, I will pretty much immediately write it off.
- buremba
We also tried to use OpenClaw for teams but unfortunately OpenClaw gateway is not designed as multi-tenant. Peter also confirms it: https://x.com/steipete/status/2026820269050855757
That's why we built https://lobu.ai which is a multi-tenant implementation for proactive agents like OpenClaw. It has entity based memory for building the org context layer and every channel/user gets its isolated container.
- spiderfarmer
Anything made in a couple of days or even hours is abandoned easily. This is how I felt when I saw the onslaught of OpenClaw tutorials months ago. I wonder how many of those influencers who felt they were so far ahead of the game are still using it and if they still feel the GAME has been SHOCKINGLY CHANGED.
- overgard
I've never run it, but isn't OpenClaw kind of useless if you sandbox it? I thought the entire point is that it has access to do everything. The danger with OpenClaw IMO isn't so much that your local machine gets hacked (although it's certainly a real danger), the danger is giving sensitive data to something horribly unreliable that can leak it or take actions on your behalf that are very dumb. I can understand (although very much disagree) with individuals running it, but trying to do it in the "enterprise" feels like playing with fire in a bad way.