ClawCodex

A packaged distribution of the claw CLI agent harness — an autonomous coding agent coordination system built in Rust, designed for machine-driven development workflows where humans set direction and agents execute the work.

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Table of Contents

• Overview
• Key Features
• Quick Start
• Architecture
• Tool Capabilities
• Security Boundaries
• Documentation
• Tech Stack
• Contributing
• Credits
• License
• Disclaimer

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Overview

ClawCodex is a research-grade agentic coding harness built around the idea that the system that produces the commits is more important than the diffs themselves. The active implementation lives in the Rust workspace under rust/, with a Windows launcher and optional bundled binary.

The harness is designed to be "clawable" — deterministic to start, machine-readable in state and failure modes, recoverable without a human watching the terminal, and capable of autonomous next-step execution through hooks, plugins, sessions, and channel events.

Key Features

• Multi-provider authentication — OpenRouter, Cerebras, Z.ai, DeepSeek, and Kimi with live key validation and model selection
• Autonomous agent coordination — parallel coding agents that plan, execute, review, and retry automatically
• Worker lifecycle management — create, observe, restart, and terminate agent worker processes
• Task orchestration — structured task tracking with packet-based creation, status updates, and output retrieval
• MCP protocol integration — discover and invoke tools exposed by Model Context Protocol servers
• Plugin extensibility — load custom tools through plugin manifests with JSON schema validation
• Language Server Protocol support — interact with LSP-backed code intelligence features
• Scheduling and team coordination — cron jobs, team groupings, and coordinated multi-agent work
• Hooks system — local command execution surface for custom workflow integration
• Sandboxed execution — platform-dependent isolation with namespace/network sandboxing on Linux

Quick Start

Windows (Recommended)

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Skynet-Pro-Plus/ClawCodex C:\clawcodex
   cd C:\clawcodex

2. Double-click START-CLAW.bat.

3. Choose a provider: OpenRouter, Cerebras, Z.ai, DeepSeek, or Kimi.

4. Paste your API key when prompted (input is hidden). Credentials are saved to repo-root .env and validated live.

5. The launcher runs claw doctor, then starts the REPL with your chosen provider and model.

Useful Commands

START-CLAW.bat
run-claw.bat
run-claw.bat doctor

Architecture

ClawCodex/
├── rust/                    # Rust workspace (primary implementation)
│   ├── crates/
│   │   ├── runtime/         # Core runtime and orchestration
│   │   ├── rusty-claude-cli/# CLI entry point and REPL
│   │   ├── tools/           # Built-in tool implementations
│   │   ├── plugins/         # Plugin system
│   │   ├── commands/        # Command dispatch
│   │   ├── repo-intel/      # Repository analysis
│   │   ├── api/             # API layer
│   │   ├── telemetry/       # Observability and metrics
│   │   ├── compat-harness/  # Compatibility testing
│   │   └── mock-anthropic-service/ # Test harness
│   ├── scripts/             # Build and test scripts
│   └── Cargo.toml           # Workspace manifest
├── bin/windows/             # Windows launcher and bundled binary
├── docs/                    # Documentation
├── frontend/                # Web UI components
├── Containerfile            # Container support
├── USAGE.md                 # Setup and workflow guide
├── PARITY.md                # Parity and migration status
├── ROADMAP.md               # Planned work and known gaps
└── PHILOSOPHY.md            # Project intent and framing

Tool Capabilities

ClawCodex extends beyond direct file edits with a rich tool surface:

Category	Tools
Discovery	WebFetch, WebSearch, ToolSearch
Planning	TodoWrite, Skill, Config, EnterPlanMode, ExitPlanMode
Tasks	TaskCreate, RunTaskPacket, TaskGet, TaskList, TaskUpdate, TaskOutput, TaskStop
Workers	WorkerCreate, WorkerGet, WorkerObserve, WorkerSendPrompt, WorkerRestart, WorkerTerminate
Teams	TeamCreate, TeamDelete, CronCreate, CronList, CronDelete
Integration	LSP, MCP, ListMcpResources, ReadMcpResource, RemoteTrigger

Not every tool is available in every environment. Some depend on configured MCP servers, worker state, or permission mode.

Extension Surfaces

• Plugin tools — Define a tool name, description, JSON schema, command, and permission in a plugin manifest.
• MCP tools — Configure MCP servers to expose tools and resources that ClawCodex discovers at runtime.

Security Boundaries

Hooks are an intentional local command execution surface. Treat hook configuration from a project or shared repository as trusted code — hooks run through the host shell, can see tool payloads, and may influence permission decisions.

Sandbox strength is platform-dependent. Full namespace/network isolation is Linux-specific when user namespaces are available. Windows and macOS runs should be treated as host-shell execution with weaker environment scoping.

Documentation

Document	Description
USAGE.md	Setup, auth, launch commands, and common workflows
rust/README.md	Rust workspace layout and crate responsibilities
PARITY.md	Parity and migration status
ROADMAP.md	Planned work and known gaps
PHILOSOPHY.md	Project intent, framing, and credits

Tech Stack

• Language: Rust (primary), Python (auxiliary scripts and API server)
• Frameworks: FastAPI, Uvicorn, Pydantic (API layer)
• Tooling: Cargo, PyInstaller
• Platform: Windows (primary), Linux (container support)

Contributing

This repository is for research and experimentation. If you find issues or have improvements, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request. Please ensure any changes are consistent with the project's research-oriented direction.

Credits

Johnny Export — This repository explicitly credits Johnny Export for his work and philosophy: treating autonomous agent coordination, not only files on disk, as the product lesson, and centering the idea that humans set direction while claws perform the labor. See PHILOSOPHY.md for the full acknowledgment.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Disclaimer

• This repository is for research and experimentation only.
• This repository does not claim ownership of the original Claude Code source material.
• This repository is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or maintained by Anthropic.