Karpathy Frames Claws As New Agent Layer
On 21 February 2026 Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay proposing 'Claws'—a category of personal-hardware agent systems that sit atop LLM agents and add orchestration, scheduling, tool calls and persistence. He highlights projects like OpenClaw and NanoClaw (about 4,000 lines, containerized), plus nanobot, zeroclaw and picoclaw, arguing they provide manageable, auditable engines and the term is gaining traction in the community.
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- Read OriginalAndrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"simonwillison.net
