Andrej Karpathy 谈「Claws」：对 OpenClaw 有顾虑，但很喜欢这个概念
AI 知名研究员 Andrej Karpathy 在 Twitter 分享了买 Mac Mini 折腾 AI 的经历，并提到了 OpenClaw（Claws）。他坦言对 OpenClaw 有安全方面的顾虑，但非常认可这个概念的价值。
Simon Willison 对此进行了详细引述和分析，探讨了 AI Agent 工具的安全边界、权限设计以及 Karpathy 评论引发的社区讨论。对关注 AI 编程工具生态的开发者是一个值得关注的视角。
Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
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Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws". Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws:
I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically [...] But I do love the concept and I think that just like LLM agents were a new layer on top of LLMs, Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents, taking the orchestration, scheduling, context, tool calls and a kind of persistence to a next level.
Looking around, and given that the high level idea is clear, there are a lot of smaller Claws starting to pop out. For example, on a quick skim NanoClaw looks really interesting in that the core engine is ~4000 lines of code (fits into both my head and that of AI agents, so it feels manageable, auditable, flexible, etc.) and runs everything in containers by default. [...]
Anyway there are many others - e.g. nanobot, zeroclaw, ironclaw, picoclaw (lol @ prefixes). [...]
Not 100% sure what my setup ends up looking like just yet but Claws are an awesome, exciting new layer of the AI stack.
Andrej has an ear for fresh terminology (see vibe coding, agentic engineering) and I think he's right about this one, too: "Claw" is becoming a term of art for the entire category of OpenClaw-like agent systems - AI agents that generally run on personal hardware, communicate via messaging protocols and can both act on direct instructions and schedule tasks.
It even comes with an established emoji 🦞
Posted 21st February 2026 at 12:37 am
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