install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install ironclaw

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Scoopverified · 92%

scoop install main/ironclaw

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · bucket/ironclaw.json · source: api.github.com

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%

winget install --id NearAI.IronClaw -e

Windows Package Manager source index · NearAI.IronClaw · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Security-first personal AI assistant with WASM sandbox channels

Project links

Commands and aliases

ironclaw
sandbox_daemon

history

Project history and usage

IronClaw is a Rust-based personal AI assistant and agent runtime from NEAR AI, packaged as a command-line application with a security-first positioning. Its package history is short, but its rapid release stream and Homebrew presence make it part of the 2026 wave of agent tools being packaged for local developer machines.

Project history

The public GitHub repository was created on February 3, 2026, and the first GitHub release, v0.1.0, was published on February 12, 2026. The README describes IronClaw as a secure personal AI assistant and documents a Reborn runtime with a separate `ironclaw-reborn` binary, state root, model routing, provider configuration, and production storage settings.

The project homepage frames IronClaw as a secure, open-source alternative to OpenClaw that can run locally or in NEAR AI Cloud encrypted enclaves. The README's configuration sections emphasize environment-variable secrets, rejecting inline secret-shaped config values, provider selection for OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, OpenRouter, Ollama, and Codex auth, and policy-controlled runtime profiles.

Adoption history

IronClaw entered Homebrew with the description 'Security-first personal AI assistant with WASM sandbox channels' and also appears in Windows package metadata through winget and Scoop in the input package facts. The GitHub repository accumulated substantial public stars and forks within months, which is unusual for a young CLI package and reflects the broader demand for local agent runtimes with stronger isolation claims.

How it is used

Users run IronClaw as a CLI assistant, configure model providers through environment variables and generated config files, and use the Reborn runtime for interactive sessions, one-shot messages, diagnostics, and local or hosted profiles. The package also ships a `sandbox_daemon` executable according to Homebrew metadata, matching the project's WASM sandbox-channel positioning.

Why package nerds care

IronClaw is package-nerd significant because it packages a fast-moving AI agent runtime with security-sensitive defaults: credential handling, config seeding, sandbox processes, provider plugins, and local state paths all affect how a package should be installed and upgraded. It is the sort of modern CLI where package metadata has to describe both a tool and a runtime boundary.

Timeline

2026-02-03: The public GitHub repository was created.
2026-02-12: The first GitHub release, v0.1.0, was published.
2026-02-19: The release stream had reached the ironclaw-v0.6.0 tag.
2026-04: Releases reached the 0.25.x series.
2026-06: Releases reached the 0.29.x series.

Related projects

IronClaw is related to OpenClaw, NEAR AI Cloud, local LLM provider tooling such as Ollama, and broader AI agent runtimes that use sandboxing and policy controls to reduce prompt-injection and secret-exfiltration risk.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: orange

formula declares a Homebrew service.

Risk classifier

orange risk · medium confidence · infrastructure

Why

formula declares a Homebrew service

Signals

metadata:service

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Formula metadata declares a service or daemon block.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`ironclaw`	cli	global executable
`sandbox_daemon`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version0.29.1

manager updated2026-07-03

local dataok

upstreamcurrent

latest detectedironclaw-v0.29.1

https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:ironclaw
Version	0.29.1
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ironclaw
Homepage	https://www.ironclaw.com
Repository	https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw
Upstream docs	https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw#readme
License	MIT OR Apache-2.0
Source archive	https://github.com/nearai/ironclaw/archive/refs/tags/ironclaw-v0.29.1.tar.gz
Last updated	2026-07-03T10:36:52+03:00
Pulse	updated
Dependencies	openssl@3
Build dependencies	pkgconf, rust
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	ironclaw
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

Scoop95%

main/ironclaw

scoop install main/ironclaw

normalized package name match
Matched by: Ironclaw

Scoop official bucket manifest trees · api.github.com · Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/ironclaw.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Main/git/trees/master?recursive=1

winget95%

NearAI.IronClaw

winget install --id NearAI.IronClaw -e

normalized package name match
Matched by: Ironclaw

Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: NearAI.IronClaw from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/ironclaw.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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