OpenClaw says daily npm downloads rose from 176,000 to 422,000 despite install bugs
JFPuget · x · 2026-07-22
OpenClaw says downloads kept rising despite a rough stability period
Hannes Rudolph of the OpenClaw Foundation says the project is not dead: npm downloads climbed from about 176,000/day across February and April to about 422,000/day across June and July 20.
He also acknowledges a difficult stretch from April to June, when broken updates hurt trust because users spent too much time recovering installs instead of using the product. The team still isn’t fully past the issue, as v2026.7.1 caused problems for some installs, though overall stability has improved after recovery.
More from coding & agent
- Gergely Orosz: Shipping 10x PRs With AI Agents, Sites Fill With Small Regressions — ducha_aiki · 2026-09-11
- Same Echo Maze prompt, three frontier models: all passed visually but shipped the same hidden bug — eyishazyer · 2026-09-11
- Astra storyboards plus Minimax H3 per-shot generation boost video success rates — Hailuo_AI · 2026-09-11
- Codex tip: use Sol with Astra and Luna sub-agents to save usage — pvncher · 2026-09-11
- agents-best-practices: a provider-neutral Agent Skill for designing and auditing agentic harnesses — tom_doerr · 2026-09-11
- Cognition's SWE-2 uses a KKT duality argument in RL to shift the effort Pareto curve — YouJiacheng · 2026-09-11