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Technical detail · for the engineers in the room

Built on OpenClaw.
Hardened by Cove.

The marketing pages lead with the outcome. This one is for the people who want to know exactly what runs on their hardware. The engine is OpenClaw — an open-source, MIT-licensed, self-hosted AI agent platform. What you hire Cove for is the framework on top: the doctrine that keeps an install from drifting, bleeding tokens, or silently breaking.

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What you own
100%
open-source engine, self-hosted on your hardware
OpenClaw is MIT-licensed and runs entirely on your Mac. You can read every line, fork it, and walk away with it. Cove’s value is the framework on top — never lock-in.
The framework

The doctrine on top of the engine.

A fresh OpenClaw install is a capable engine and a blank slate. The Cove framework is the set of conventions, libraries, and protocols that turn it into a production-grade operator. This is what you’re actually buying.

01
Bootstrap conventions
Workspace canon — MEMORY, MACHINE, CAPABILITIES, COORDINATION — rendered consistently across every install.
02
Skill libraries
Battle-tested skills (channels, scheduling, drafting, knowledge lookup) ready to drop in or extend.
03
Security protocols
Secrets via keychain refs. Allowlists by default. Mention rules. Sub-agent credential isolation.
04
Memory architecture
Per-file injection budgets, dead-project pruning, URGENT-flag hygiene. The agent remembers what matters.
05
Channel configurations
iMessage, Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, Telegram, Signal, Teams — wired with the right rate-limit and reconnect patterns.
06
Recovery playbooks
Cove’s private remediation canon — a fix for every drift signature we’ve seen, refined across every rescue. When something breaks, we already know the move.
Drift signatures

What a rescue audit actually sweeps.

On a rescue we audit dozens of failure modes. These are the technical signatures — if any of them mean something to you, you already know why we look.

Ownership

Self-hosted by design.

Cove never hosts, runs, or owns any client’s instance. The operator runs on your hardware, configured to your doctrine. Conversations, credentials, and memory live on your machine — never ours.

If you fire us tomorrow, the operator keeps running. Nothing you depend on goes with us.

You own
  • HardwareYour Mac. We install on it; we don’t own it.
  • CredentialsAPI keys, channel tokens, OAuth grants — all in your keychain.
  • DataMemory, transcripts, embeddings — never leave your machine.
  • CodeAn open-source engine + your custom skills. You can read every line.
  • IdentityThe agent’s name, voice, and operating doctrine are yours.
Still reading?

Then you already get it.

The engine is open. The framework is the craft. Let’s put one to work on your business.

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