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Agent engine that does complex, long-running work with minimal tokens — every gain earned under rigorous eval.

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BendClaw – Distributed AgentOS Written in Rust

by BohuTANG·Mar 18, 2026·1 point·0 comments

AI Analysis

MidBold BetShip It

Yet another agent framework competing with CrewAI, LangGraph, and AutoGen.

Strengths
  • Lease-based scheduling with distributed DB leases enables automatic failover
  • Secret-safe execution injects credentials only at tool runtime, never to LLMs
  • Multi-tenant isolation with separate database per agent and session workspace
Weaknesses
  • Agent orchestration space is extremely crowded with established players
  • README heavy on buzzwords like 'co-evolve' without clear technical differentiation
Category
Target Audience

Teams building multi-agent AI systems

Similar To

CrewAI · LangGraph · AutoGen

Post Description

Hi HN, we're open-sourcing BendClaw today -- the distributed AgentOS behind Evot.AI.

The problem: one shared agent maxes out fast. Separate agents per person means everyone starts from zero. We wanted the third option -- distributed compute with shared knowledge.

BendClaw is a runtime where multiple agents run in parallel, each on its own node, but all connected to one shared data layer. When one agent learns something, every other agent has it on the next run. No prompt engineering, no manual handoff.

What's inside:

- *Shared memory* -- all agents read and write to the same knowledge base. Context, learnings, history, fully connected. - *Cluster dispatch* -- agents fan out subtasks across nodes and collect results. Local and cloud nodes in one cluster. - *Self-evolving* -- every run automatically extracts knowledge and injects it into future runs. - *Trace and audit* -- every operation recorded. Who did what, which tools fired, what came back. All queryable. - *Secret-safe* -- secrets vault-isolated, never exposed to the LLM. Approval gates on sensitive actions. - *Token-aware* -- per-agent budgets with proactive alerts before anything runs out. - *100+ integrations* -- custom tools via Skills: write a description, point it at a script, done.

Rust, Apache-2.0. Hosted platform at https://evot.ai if you want to skip self-hosting.

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