Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise
OpenClaw Machines is an open-source platform designed to run isolated AI agents on private infrastructure using Firecracker microVMs. It emphasizes security, data sovereignty, and cost-efficiency by allowing users to host their own models and control planes.
Why it matters
It provides a secure, hardware-isolated alternative to cloud-based AI agent hosting, appealing to enterprises concerned with data privacy and vendor lock-in.
Run as many isolated OpenClaw agents as you need, on hardware you own.
OpenClaw Machines is an open-source platform for running OpenClaw in secure AI sandboxes on your own infrastructure . A control plane orchestrates your hosts, and each agent runs in its own Firecracker microVM on them — hardware-isolated, safe for untrusted and agent-generated code. A Cloudflare data plane is the front door: every machine gets its own subdomain behind edge auth, reached through a tunnel that terminates inside the VM — no host port is exposed for user-to-VM traffic. The current control plane still needs private or firewall-restricted access to each agent's authenticated control API on 9090 . See it running at openclawmachines.com .
The Apache-2.0 public core ships every piece of that stack:
The ocm CLI lives in the separate mathaix/ocm-cli Apache-2.0 repository.
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