Entities

The category ClawBlog covers: software agents that act autonomously in the world — planning, calling tools, and executing multi-step tasks — layered above frontier models. The technology, business, use cases, and security of that layer.

AI safety company and maker of the Claude family of models. Operator of Claude Managed Agents and a central player in the agentic-AI infrastructure layer ClawBlog covers.

Anthropic's hosted agent infrastructure — production-grade agents run on Anthropic's platform rather than self-hosted. Entered public beta in April 2026 with Notion, Rakuten, and Asana as launch customers.

The early-2026 supply-chain attack on the OpenClaw ecosystem: typosquatted malicious AgentSkills published to ClawHub. The incident drove ClawHub’s VirusTotal scanning partnership and a broader reckoning over agent-skill provenance.

The public skill registry and marketplace for OpenClaw — a catalog of 13,700+ AgentSkills with a 90/10 revenue split for paid skills. Hardened with VirusTotal scanning after the ClawHavoc supply-chain attack.

Google's AI research division and maker of the Gemini family and the Nano Banana image models, including the high-fidelity Nano Banana Pro used in agent image pipelines.

Nous Research's self-improving agent with persistent memory — an MIT-licensed framework that runs across five execution backends (local, Docker, SSH, Singularity, Modal), and one of the fastest-growing agent frameworks of 2026.

Google DeepMind's high-fidelity image-generation model (April 2026) — the premium tier of the Nano Banana line, used in agent pipelines when output quality matters more than cost.

Open AI research collective and maker of Hermes-Agent, known for permissively licensed models and agent tooling.

AI research company and maker of the GPT family. Relevant to the agent ecosystem as a frontier-model provider and as the company OpenClaw founder Steinberger joined in February 2026.

The most-starred open-source AI agent framework in GitHub history — a general-purpose autonomous agent that operates over everyday messaging platforms (Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram) through a library of 100+ AgentSkills.

A multi-agent orchestration layer for "zero-human companies" — a Node.js orchestrator and React control UI that coordinates fleets of agents via a heartbeat protocol, budget enforcement, and a shared ticket queue.