I'm really posting about that which I do not know here, but this seems interesting:
IronClaw is built on a simple principle: your AI assistant should work for you, not against you.
In a world where AI systems are increasingly opaque about data handling and aligned with corporate interests, IronClaw takes a different approach:IronClaw is the AI assistant you can actually trust with your personal and professional life.
- Your data stays yours - All information is stored locally, encrypted, and never leaves your control
- Transparency by design - Open source, auditable, no hidden telemetry or data harvesting
- Self-expanding capabilities - Build new tools on the fly without waiting for vendor updates
- Defense in depth - Multiple security layers protect against prompt injection and data exfiltration
rad.. seems nice to do this in rust
I'm much more capable in TS though :-/
The local-first architecture is the right call here. Every hosted AI assistant is essentially a man-in-the-middle on your thoughts — you're sending your context to someone else's server and trusting they won't log, train on, or leak it.
What makes Rust interesting for this is memory safety without a garbage collector. AI inference on local hardware is already CPU/memory constrained — you don't want GC pauses interrupting token generation. Rust gives you the performance ceiling of C++ with the safety guarantees that matter when you're handling encrypted personal data.
The name being inspired by OpenClaw is a nice touch. If they can deliver on the encrypted local storage promise while keeping inference speed competitive with cloud models, this fills a real gap. The hard part isn't the encryption — it's making the UX smooth enough that people actually use local mode instead of defaulting back to ChatGPT because it's faster.
Interesting that you highlight the “OpenClaw inspired” angle. Is the Natural Language Processing (NLP) part also local in this Rust implementation, or is it primarily the client/storage layer that’s encrypted? The on-the-fly tool-building capability is also very compelling. It sounds like a local “Universal Tool Builder.”