OpenClaw has overtaken React as the #1 most-starred software project on GitHub with 316,000+ stars. The milestone comes alongside v2026.3.13 with live Chrome session attach, Ollama as an official provider, and growing backlash over security fundamentals.
Five malicious Rust crates targeted CI/CD pipelines to steal developer secrets. Meanwhile, an AI-powered bot called hackerbot-claw exploited GitHub Actions to hijack the Trivy security scanner and weaponize AI coding assistants against their own users.
OpenAI is developing its own code hosting platform to compete with Microsoft's GitHub. Here's why this matters for the future of AI-assisted coding and what OpenClaw users should know.