◤ THE CLAW INDEX
MAY 2026 EST. ECOSYSTEM 2026 BY PHATCHARA
Field notes on the agentic AI landscape — hardware, frameworks, operating systems.

The Claw Index.

The Series
Two volumes shipped. More coming.

Half a year of watching the agent ecosystem rearrange itself, condensed into shippable field guides. Hardware in Vol. 01. Operating systems in Vol. 02. Layer-2 routing next.

Currently shipping — two volumes
VOL. 01 · MAY 2026 · FIELD GUIDE

The Claw Ecosystem.

Hardware — eight forks, four tiers

OpenClaw spawned an entire family of AI-agent frameworks within ninety days. From a $2 microcontroller to a sealed enterprise sandbox — here is where each one runs, and why someone built it that way.

8 forks 4 tiers $2 → $0+VPS MCU → Server
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VOL. 02 · MAY 2026 · FIELD COMPARISON

The Agent OS Stack.

Frameworks — seven contenders, one operator

OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, thClaws, Letta, Codex, Antigravity, Claude Code — and the supporting cast of editor tools. The map of the 2026 agent stack, and where our own ecosystem fits inside it.

7 full rows 8-cell cast 1 protagonist 15-row matrix
Read Vol. 02 →
/03 Forthcoming