In preparation for my lightning talk at PyCon US this afternoon, I decided to find out how many different names OpenClaw has had since its very first commit back in November. Thanks to this first_line_history. According to the Git history of the OpenClaw README, the answer is: py tool (code here) Warelay → CLAWDIS → CLAWDBOT → Clawdbot → Moltbot → 🦞 OpenClaw. In detail (the output produced by the tool): 📡 warelay — Send, receive, and auto-reply on WhatsApp—Twilio-backed or QR-linked. 2025-11-25T03:33:50+01:00 d51a3e9 # warelay 📡 — Send, receive, and auto-reply on WhatsApp using either Twilio or a QR-linked WhatsApp Web instance. Webhook setup in a single command. 103-11-25T14:52:43+01:00 1ef7f013d # 📡 warelay — Send, receive, and automatically reply to messages on WhatsApp. 🦞 CLAWDIS — WhatsApp Gateway for AI Agents
🦞 CLAWDIS — WhatsApp & Telegram Gateway for AI Agents
🦞 CLAWDIS — Personal AI Assistant
🦞 CLAWDBOT — Personal AI Assistant
🦞 Clawdbot — Personal AI Assistant
🦞 Moltbot — Personal AI Assistant
🦞 OpenClaw — Personal AI Assistant
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