GitHub said OpenClaw 2.0 is out and published a roundtable with creator Peter Steinberger and maintainers on how they built, scaled, and secured what it calls the fastest-growing open source project in GitHub history. OpenClaw is a device-local personal assistant that fans out to messaging channels and models through a gateway, so agent work lives next to existing chats rather than a new IDE. The 2.0 line is a large install and browser-app rewrite; for teams self-hosting a messaging-side agent, it is a checkpoint on both capability and the supply-chain load that viral agent repos now create.

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  • ✓GitHub announced OpenClaw 2.0 and called it the fastest-growing open source project in GitHub history.
  • ✓It is a device-local personal assistant that connects models to existing messaging channels via a gateway.
  • ✓The official video covers scaling, contributor trust, review, and software supply-chain security.
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