Thanks for your work and I really really hope the open source project stays maintained. I’ve been using it from the very beginning and it’s been great!
Why? He's going to maintain it and the community is large enough. Another sci-fi idea that's slowly becoming real is that the project is maintaining itself.
OpenClaw is a bunch of projects that evolved together (vibetunnel, pi-mono, all the CLIs). It's even more interesting to see the next iterations, not only what happens to this project.
I partially agree with you that things get abandoned by users when they are too complex, but I think skills are a big improvement compared to what we had before.
Skills + tool search tool (dynamic MCP loading) announced recently are way better than just using MCP tools. I see more adoption by the people around me compared to a few months ago.
I use it all the time with coding agents, especially if I'm running multiple terminals. It's way faster to talk than type. The only problem is that it looks awkward if there are others around.
This becomes clearer for me with harder problems or long running tasks and sessions. Especially with larger context.
Examples that come to mind are how the context is filled up and how compaction works. Both Codex and Claude Code ship improvements regarding this specific to their own models and I’m not sure how this is reflected in tools like Cursor.
Speaking from personal experience and talking to other users - the agents/harnesses of the vendors are just better and they are customized for their own models.