JARVIS OpenClaw

Two circles, honestly drawn. The overlap is real; so is everything outside it.

JARVIS OpenClaw 🦞 GOVERNANCE LAYER GATEWAY / HARNESS hooks that GATE (block + log) 560 memory files 232 primitives WAL recovery merkle self-attest (provably just files) cron self-perpetuation wraps an LLM into an agent memory sessions tool use local-first augment, not replace, an LLM 10+ chat channels (TG / Slack / Signal…) ACP multi-agent routing parallel sub-sessions native Codex runtime sandboxed subagent
JARVIS only — depth: accountability + persistence of one agent shared — both are agent substrates OpenClaw only — breadth: channels + multi-agent reach
The integration boundary (the honest part). The overlap is where they compose: OpenClaw's ACP path can spawn a Claude Code session, and JARVIS rides on Claude Code, so JARVIS-on-ACP runs today in principle. But the catch is in the geometry: that only governs the one ACP sub-session, not OpenClaw's own native turns. JARVIS's whole thesis is governing the entire agent. To wrap the whole system, the hook-points and attestation have to live in the harness's own turn-executor — which means a fork, not a passenger seat. Compose to prove it cheap; fork when governing-the-whole becomes the ceiling.

OpenClaw facts: docs.openclaw.ai · github.com/openclaw/openclaw (verified 2026-06-11). JARVIS counts live from the running system. Full axis comparison: /jarvis-vs-openclaw.html