Platform · Runtime
The execution layer every otto agent runs on. Built on OpenClaw — tuned, optimized, and kept current with the ecosystem.
What it does
Runtime handles the full lifecycle of an agent doing work — task orchestration, the agentic loop, tool invocation, and surface routing. Every agent on otto runs through it. It’s not visible to you most of the time, which is the point.
Foundation
OpenClaw is an open-source agent harness — widely used, well-tested, and handles everything a runtime harness needs to handle. We chose it deliberately. Because it’s open source, we can read it, understand it, and optimize the parts that matter for otto’s use cases.
On top of that foundation, we tune default settings, modify agentic loop behavior, and add otto-specific optimizations for better out-of-the-box performance. The harness is OpenClaw. The runtime is otto’s.
Philosophy
The OpenClaw community is actively growing — new plugins, recipes, use cases, and patterns surface constantly. Because otto runs on the same foundation, we grow with it. New tooling that works with OpenClaw works with otto. We want to be on the right side of that: an open ecosystem compounds, and a closed one doesn’t.