Tank OS is geared toward power users looking to run OpenClaw on their own computers and toward IT pros managing fleets of corporate OpenClaw agents. It makes OpenClaw safer and easier to maintain en masse.

Countless people, companies, and startups are already inventing better ways to work with OpenClaw — the open source project that installs an AI agent on a local computer. There is also a growing number of startups building competing claw alternatives that they say are safer (like NanoClaw).

What makes O’Malley’s project notable is that she is an OpenClaw maintainer. That means she’s among the select software engineers working with creator Peter Steinberger to decide which features and bugs get worked on. In her case, she focuses on making OpenClaw work better in enterprise use cases, and with Red Hat’s various flavors of the Linux operating system. (While Steinberger was hired by OpenAI, he still leads the independent open source OpenClaw project.)

O’Malley joined OpenClaw because she sees it working to “enable everyone to run AI in a safe way, that’s open,” she said.