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Open Claw Machines for Enterprise Teams

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Open Claw Machines is an open-source platform designed to manage Open Claw for enterprise teams, providing compute infrastructure, tool integration, authentication, and security primitives. It allows users to run multiple isolated Open Claw agents on their own hardware using secure AI sandboxes.

A control plane orchestrates hosts, with each agent running in a hardware-isolated Firecracker micro VM. A Cloudflare data plane acts as the front door, providing edge authentication and routing traffic through a tunnel that terminates within the VM, ensuring no host ports are exposed. The platform's Apache-2.0 licensed core includes a control plane, a host agent (ocm-agent), a per-host LLM proxy, the Open Claw runtime, a browser runtime, and workspace integrations.

Key benefits include enhanced security with true hardware isolation, cost-effectiveness by utilizing owned infrastructure, and data sovereignty. Open Claw Machines offers a solution for running multiple untrusted agents safely on self-hosted infrastructure, functioning as a mini-cloud for AI agents. It contrasts with local hardware, VPS, and managed services by offering a flat server cost for numerous hardware-isolated agents.