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docs: restructure README_ENTERPRISE — lead with governance, not infrastructure
Reordered sections to reflect the project's core value proposition: enterprise org-driven agent governance, not serverless runtime details. New order: 1. The Governance Problem — why enterprises can't use generic AI 2. Our Answer — 3-layer SOUL, 5-layer security, IT controls, auto-provisioning 3. What Makes This Different — competitive comparison (governance-first) 4. Three Deployment Modes — runtime choices (demoted from #1 to #5) Removed: duplicate "The Problem"/"The Solution" sections (merged into new opening), duplicate "How It Compares" table (replaced by "What Makes This Different"). Updated opening paragraph to enterprise governance framing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# OpenClaw Enterprise on AgentCore
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Turn [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw) from a personal AI assistant into an enterprise-grade digital workforce platform — without modifying a single line of OpenClaw source code.
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Most enterprise AI platforms give everyone the same generic assistant. OpenClaw Enterprise gives each employee **an AI agent with role-specific identity, memory, tools, and security boundaries** — while giving IT full governance control over the entire fleet.
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Built on [OpenClaw](https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw) (open-source AI assistant) + AWS Bedrock AgentCore. **Zero modification to OpenClaw source code** — all enterprise capabilities are achieved through configuration files, workspace assembly, and AWS-native services.
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## Serverless Economics: Pay Only When Agents Think
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## The Governance Problem
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Most enterprise AI deployments either charge per seat or run dedicated compute per employee. AgentCore Firecracker microVMs change the economics entirely — **you don't pre-allocate CPU or memory. You don't pick instance sizes. AgentCore provisions exactly what each invocation needs and bills per second.**
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An enterprise with 500 employees across 12 roles wants to deploy AI agents. The challenges aren't technical — they're organizational:
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**AgentCore pricing (us-west-2):**
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- CPU: $0.0895 / vCPU-hour — **$0 when idle** (no CPU charge between invocations)
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- Memory: $0.00945 / GB-hour — the only idle cost, and it's tiny
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- The **Finance Analyst** agent must never execute shell commands, but the **SDE** agent needs shell access daily
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- When the **CISO updates a compliance policy**, all 500 agents must adopt it — immediately, without touching each one individually
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- **IT needs to see** every tool call, every permission denial, every conversation — across all agents, all IM channels, all departments
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- An employee who **changes departments** should automatically get a new agent identity, new tools, new knowledge — without a support ticket
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- The **CEO's agent** should use Claude Sonnet 4.6 with full tool access; the **intern's agent** should use Nova Lite with web search only
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**50 employees, 8-hour workday sessions (us-west-2):**
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ChatGPT Team and Microsoft Copilot can't do any of this. They give everyone the same agent with the same capabilities.
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| | Dedicated EC2 per Employee | ChatGPT Team | **OpenClaw on AgentCore** |
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| 50 employees | 50 × $52 = **$2,600/mo** | 50 × $25 = **$1,250/mo** | **~$100-150/mo** |
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| What you pay for | 24/7, whether anyone's chatting or not | Per seat, fixed | Only invocation CPU + idle session memory |
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| Idle cost per employee | $52/mo (full EC2 running) | $25/mo (subscription) | **~$0.08/day** (1 GB memory × 8 hr) |
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**The math:** 50 employees × 22 workdays × $0.08 idle/day = ~$88/mo in memory. Add CPU during actual conversations (~$20-50/mo) = **$100-150/mo total AgentCore cost.** Add gateway infrastructure (see [Cost Estimate](#cost-estimate) below) for the complete picture.
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## Our Answer: Organization-Driven Agent Governance
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### Three-Layer SOUL Identity
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## Three Deployment Modes: Serverless + ECS + EKS
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The core design: **one SOUL configuration per role, not per person.** 5 departments × 12 positions = governance over 500 agents.
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Every agent uses the same Docker image. Admin chooses the deployment mode per agent based on the use case — no code changes, no separate builds.
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```
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┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
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│ Layer 1: GLOBAL (IT locked — CISO + CTO approval) │
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│ Company policies, security red lines, data handling │
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│ "Never share customer PII. Never execute rm -rf." │
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├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Layer 2: POSITION (Department admin managed) │
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│ Role expertise, tool permissions, knowledge scope │
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│ "You are a Finance Analyst. Use excel-gen, not shell." │
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├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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│ Layer 3: PERSONAL (Employee self-service) │
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│ Communication preferences, custom instructions │
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│ "I prefer concise answers. Always respond in Chinese." │
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└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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↓ merge
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Final SOUL.md (what the agent reads)
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### Serverless (AgentCore) — Default
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**No lower layer can override a higher one.** An employee who writes "Ignore all company rules" in their personal layer is still bound by the Global layer — it's prepended with a `CRITICAL IDENTITY OVERRIDE` marker that the model reads first.
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| **Cold start** | ~6s first message — Firecracker microVM + SOUL assembly + Bedrock |
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| **Session resume** | ~2-3s — Session Storage restores workspace, skips S3 download |
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| **Warm session** | Near-instant — microVM stays active during a conversation |
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| **Idle cost** | Memory only ($0.00945/GB-hour). CPU = $0 when idle |
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| **Session Storage** | Workspace files persist across microVM stop/resume (1 GB per session). No S3 sync needed for agent-side persistence |
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| **Best for** | Individual employee agents — scales to zero, pay-per-use |
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### Five-Layer Security (Defense in Depth)
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### Always-on (ECS Fargate) — Admin Toggle
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| Layer | Mechanism | Bypassed by prompt injection? |
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| L1 — SOUL Rules | Prompt-level behavioral constraints | ⚠️ Theoretically possible |
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| L2 — Tool Permissions (Plan A) | Per-position allowlist in DynamoDB, injected before SOUL | ⚠️ Depends on model compliance |
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| **L3 — IAM** | **Per-runtime IAM role — Finance role has no S3 cross-dept access** | **Impossible** |
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| **L4 — Compute Isolation** | **Firecracker microVM per agent (hardware boundary)** | **Impossible** |
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| **L5 — Bedrock Guardrail** | **Content filter on every input + output (PII, topics, injection)** | **Impossible** |
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| **Cold start** | None — container is always running |
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| **Scheduled tasks** | HEARTBEAT fires on schedule (email check every 3 min, daily reports) |
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| **Direct IM** | Container connects directly to Telegram/Discord (dedicated bot token) |
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| **Persistence** | EFS-backed workspace — durable across container restarts |
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| **Best for** | Customer service bots, executive assistants with frequent cron tasks, high-traffic Digital Twins |
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L3-L5 are infrastructure boundaries. No prompt, no matter how clever, can bypass an IAM policy or escape a Firecracker VM.
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### EKS (Kubernetes) — For Container-Native Infrastructure
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### IT Governance Controls
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Kubernetes-native deployment using the OpenClaw Operator and `OpenClawInstance` CRDs. Best for teams already on Kubernetes, multi-cluster setups, or AWS China regions.
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| Control | What IT Gets |
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| **SOUL Editor** | Global rules locked by IT. Position SOUL managed by department admins. Employees edit only their personal layer. |
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| **4-Tier Runtime Model** | Standard / Restricted / Engineering / Executive — each with its own model, IAM role, guardrail. Assign positions to tiers from UI. |
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| **Audit Center** | Every invocation, tool call, permission denial, SOUL change, IM pairing, guardrail block → DynamoDB. 5 insight detectors surface patterns. |
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| **Skill Governance** | 26 skills with position-level assignment. Employees can request access; IT approves/denies. |
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| **Usage & Cost** | Per-employee, per-department, per-model breakdown. Model-aware pricing ($0.30–$75/1M tokens). Department budgets. |
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| **IM Management** | Every employee's IM connections visible to admin. One-click revoke. Channel health + enrollment stats. |
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| **RBAC** | Admin (full org) · Manager (department-scoped) · Employee (portal only). JWT-enforced on every API call. |
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**[→ EKS Deployment Guide (EN)](docs/DEPLOYMENT_EKS.md)** · **[→ EKS 部署指南 (中文)](docs/DEPLOYMENT_EKS_CN.md)**
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### Auto-Provisioning: Org Chart Drives Everything
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Admin creates employee with positionId="pos-fa" (Finance Analyst)
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① Agent created (inherits position's skills + default channel)
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③ S3 workspace seeded (PERSONAL_SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md)
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| L1 — Prompt | SOUL.md rules ("Finance never uses shell") | ⚠️ Theoretically possible |
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| **L3 — IAM** | **Runtime role has no permission on target resource** | **Impossible** |
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| **L4 — Compute** | **Firecracker microVM per agent (AgentCore / ECS Fargate)** | **Impossible** |
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| Per-role agent identity | ❌ Same for all | ❌ Same for all | ✅ 3-layer SOUL per position |
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| Tool permissions per role ||| ✅ Plan A allowlist + IAM + Guardrail |
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| Org-driven agent management ||| ✅ Department → Position → Employee hierarchy |
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| IT audit trail || Limited | ✅ Every action logged to DynamoDB |
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| Self-hosted, data in your VPC ||| ✅ Bedrock in your account, zero data egress |
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| IM integration (10 platforms) || Teams only | ✅ Telegram, Slack, Discord, Feishu, WhatsApp... |
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| Scheduled tasks / cron ||| ✅ EventBridge + Always-on agents |
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| Cost: 50 employees | $1,250/mo | $1,500/mo | **~$160-220/mo** |
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| Open source ||| ✅ OpenClaw + AWS native |
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**[→ EKS Deployment Guide (EN)](docs/DEPLOYMENT_EKS.md)** · **[→ EKS 部署指南 (中文)](docs/DEPLOYMENT_EKS_CN.md)**
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