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Hero + headline - Lead with the insight most AI tools fail on: vendors go down, memory resets, one channel = one product. Position MateClaw as the whole widget — one deployment covering reasoning, knowledge, memory, tools and channels. Three product anchors replace the old feature wall 1. Multi-model failover — primary vendor key fails, runtime routes to the next healthy provider (DashScope / OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini / DeepSeek / Kimi / Ollama / LM Studio / MLX, 14+ total) with a provider health tracker cooling down bad vendors. 2. Knowledge that links itself — LLM Wiki digests raw material into linked pages with citation-level traceability. 3. Five surfaces, one brain — Web Console, Desktop (bundled JRE 21), Webchat Widget, 7 IM channels, Plugin SDK. Comparison table tightened - 13-column × 7-product matrix collapsed to 5 rows × 4 competitors, focused on dimensions where MateClaw carves real space. Project structure corrected - Previous version only listed 3 modules. Now lists all seven: mateclaw-server / -ui / -desktop / -webchat / -plugin-api / -plugin-sample / matevip-sites. Tech stack updated - Java badge bumped to 21+ (was 17+); Flyway surfaced; Webchat row added. Size: each README 230 → 203 lines. |
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MateClaw
AI that thinks, acts, remembers — and keeps going when one model dies.
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Most AI tools forget you the moment the tab closes. Most fall over when their model vendor has a bad day. Most give you a chatbox and call it a product.
MateClaw is the whole widget. One deployment. Reasoning, knowledge, memory, tools, and multi-channel presence — built together, not bolted on.
Three things that make it different
1 · Your AI doesn't die when a model does
Primary key expired. Vendor returns 401. Network blip. Quota drained.
Other tools hand you a red error card. MateClaw routes to the next healthy provider — DashScope, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, Ollama, LM Studio, MLX, 14+ in total — and the user sees the reply finish. A provider health tracker parks bad vendors in a cooldown window so they don't waste seconds on every turn.
You don't configure a retry script. You set priorities in the web UI. The runtime does the rest.
2 · Knowledge that links itself
Upload a PDF, a batch of markdown, a scraped page — raw material in.
MateClaw's LLM Wiki digests it into structured pages, builds [[links]] between them, and remembers where every sentence came from. Click a citation, see the exact source chunk. Ask a question, the page you get is stitched from the right chunks — with references you can verify.
This is the difference between a warehouse and a library.
3 · One product, five surfaces
| Surface | What it is |
|---|---|
| Web Console | Full admin — agents, models, tools, skills, knowledge, security, cron |
| Desktop | Electron app with a bundled JRE 21. Double-click, run. No Java install |
| Webchat Widget | One <script> tag embed. Drop it on any site |
| IM Channels | DingTalk · Feishu · WeChat Work · Telegram · Discord · QQ |
| Plugin SDK | Java module for third-party capability packs |
Same brain. Same memory. Same tools. Different doors.
What's in the box
Agent runtime
ReAct for iterative reasoning. Plan-and-Execute for complex multi-step work. Dynamic context pruning, smart truncation, stale-stream cleanup — the boring stuff that makes long conversations actually work.
Knowledge & memory
- LLM Wiki — raw materials digest into linked pages with citations
- Workspace memory —
AGENTS.md,SOUL.md,PROFILE.md,MEMORY.md, daily notes - Memory lifecycle — post-conversation extraction, scheduled consolidation, dreaming workflows
Tools, skills, MCP
Built-in tools for web search, files, memory, date/time. MCP over stdio / SSE / Streamable HTTP. SKILL.md packages from the ClawHub marketplace. A Tool Guard layer with RBAC, approval flows, and path protection — capability needs boundaries.
Multimodal creation
Text-to-speech · Speech-to-text · Image · Music · Video. First-class, not add-ons.
Enterprise-ready
RBAC + JWT. Full audit trail. Flyway-managed schema that auto-heals on upgrade. One JAR to ship. MySQL in production, H2 for dev — nothing to change in your code.
Why MateClaw
| MateClaw | Claude Code | Cursor | Windsurf | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-model failover | Auto-route across vendors | Anthropic only | One model | One model |
| Knowledge digestion | Wiki with citations | CLAUDE.md only | Code index | — |
| Multi-channel presence | 7 IM + Web + Desktop + Widget | 3 IM preview | IDE only | IDE only |
| Admin dashboard | Full web console | Enterprise tier | — | — |
| Price | Free · Apache 2.0 | $20–200/mo | $0–200/mo | $0–200/mo |
The comparison table everyone writes is the one that flatters themselves. This is the one that matters: in a category crowded with coding assistants, MateClaw's bet is generality — an AI operating system, not an IDE plugin.
Quick start
# Backend
cd mateclaw-server
mvn spring-boot:run # http://localhost:18088
# Frontend
cd mateclaw-ui
pnpm install && pnpm dev # http://localhost:5173
Login: admin / admin123
Docker
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d # http://localhost:18080
Desktop
Download from GitHub Releases. Bundles JRE 21. No Java install needed.
Architecture
Technical architecture
Project structure
mateclaw/
├── mateclaw-server/ Spring Boot 3.5 backend (Spring AI Alibaba, StateGraph runtime)
├── mateclaw-ui/ Vue 3 + TypeScript admin SPA (built into the server JAR)
├── mateclaw-desktop/ Electron app with bundled JRE 21
├── mateclaw-webchat/ Embeddable chat widget (UMD / ES bundles)
├── mateclaw-plugin-api/ Java SDK for third-party capability plugins
├── mateclaw-plugin-sample/ Reference plugin implementation
├── matevip-sites/ Marketing site + VitePress docs (pnpm workspace)
├── deploy/ Production deployment configs
├── docker-compose.yml
└── .env.example
Tech stack
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Backend | Spring Boot 3.5 · Spring AI Alibaba 1.1 · MyBatis Plus · Flyway |
| Agent | StateGraph runtime · ReAct + Plan-Execute |
| Database | H2 (dev) · MySQL 8.0+ (prod) |
| Auth | Spring Security + JWT |
| Frontend | Vue 3 · TypeScript · Vite · Element Plus · TailwindCSS 4 |
| Desktop | Electron · electron-updater · JRE 21 (bundled) |
| Widget | Vite library mode · UMD + ES bundles |
Documentation
Full docs at claw.mate.vip/docs — setup, architecture, each subsystem, API reference.
Roadmap
Sharper multi-agent collaboration · Smarter model routing · Deeper multimodal understanding · Longer-lived memory · A richer ClawHub.
Contributing
git clone https://github.com/matevip/mateclaw.git
cd mateclaw
cd mateclaw-server && mvn clean compile
cd ../mateclaw-ui && pnpm install && pnpm dev
Why the name
Mate is companion. Claw is capability.
Something that stays with you — and grabs work and moves it.
License
Apache License 2.0. No asterisks.