In July, the OpenClaw Foundation was announced with Red Hat joining as a sponsor to bring open, more secure infrastructure to autonomous AI agents. OpenClaw has quickly become a premier open source autonomous agent framework, and Red Hat’s involvement aims to bring the enterprise readiness and infrastructure needed to transition this technology from a powerful personal tool to a production-grade business asset. The value of OpenClaw lies in its persistence. It automates tasks and workflows independently, using system integrations to act directly on a user’s behalf.
As enterprise developers adopt autonomous agents from single laptops to distributed environments, they need to address enterprise IT infrastructure and security requirements. We are excited to contribute to this community and provide expertise in enterprise AI, cloud-native platforms, and open source. We want developers to run their preferred agent runtimes securely on their choice of infrastructure across any hybrid cloud environment. This philosophy drives the core principle of our AgentOps strategy for Red Hat AI : bring your own agent (BYOA).
Sponsoring the OpenClaw Foundation makes this choice even more of a reality. Because persistent agents require deep access to internal systems, runtime security is non-negotiable for enterprise adoption. We are addressing this challenge directly by applying engineering resources to the OpenClaw project.
Through this open source work, our dedicated upstream resources, led by Red Hatter and OpenClaw maintainer Sally O’Malley, will apply Red Hat’s deep engineering expertise in Linux, Kubernetes, vLLM, and core open source systems to help deliver operational reliability, community governance, and runtime risk mitigation. Red Hat’s participation in the OpenClaw Foundation is two-fold.