Alibaba Open-Sources HiClaw: Multi-Agent Collaborative OS With Human-in-the-Loop

Alibaba's HiClaw open-sourced March 4 — Manager + Worker agent architecture via Matrix rooms. Credentials never stored on workers. CoPaw reduces memory 80% vs OpenClaw. Supports enterprise MCP servers.

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A distributed runtime that replaces the OpenClaw Conductor bottleneck with a peer-to-peer agent mesh that scales horizontally

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Enterprise teams running OpenClaw hit a wall the moment they need more than a handful of concurrent agents. The Conductor Agent is a single point of contention that serializes all task routing, turning what should be parallel execution into a queue. With 500K+ OpenClaw instances deployed and companies like NVIDIA, Cisco, and AWS building enterprise wrappers around it, nobody has solved the core scaling problem. This tool replaces the Conductor with a distributed mesh of lightweight coordinators that shard work by project scope, letting enterprises run hundreds of agents without a central chokepoint.

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