Clawboo is open-source software under the MIT License. This page summarizes that license, the notable third-party code that ships inside the published package, and the upstream content the marketplace catalog is adapted from. The repository’s two canonical files are the source of truth:
LICENSE: the MIT license text and copyright holder.THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md: the full per-dependency license table and the verbatim upstream license texts.
This page is a reading guide to those files, not a replacement for them. When in doubt, the two files above govern.
At a glance
| Item | Value |
|---|
| Project license | MIT |
| Copyright holder | Sanreds (2026) |
| Published npm package | clawboo (the CLI): license field MIT |
| Repo workspace packages | All @clawboo/* are private: true and do not publish; they inline into the CLI’s bundle |
| Notable bundled licenses | MIT, Apache-2.0 (openai, drizzle-orm), EPL-2.0 (elkjs), ISC (lucide-react), CC0-1.0 (simple-icons) |
| Marketplace agent content | Adapted from two MIT-licensed upstream repos, pinned by commit SHA |
Clawboo’s own license: MIT
The repository’s LICENSE is the standard MIT License, Copyright (c) 2026 Sanreds. It grants permission to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies, with the usual “AS IS”, no-warranty disclaimer, on the condition that the copyright notice and permission notice are retained in copies or substantial portions.
The only npm-published artifact is the clawboo CLI package (apps/cli/package.json), whose license field is MIT. Everything you install with npx clawboo ships under that license. See The CLI for what the package contains and Deployment for how it boots.
Every workspace library under packages/ is named @clawboo/* and marked private: true. None of them publish to npm independently; they are bundled into the CLI’s dist/server.js and dist/ui/ at assembly time. So “the published software” is exactly the one clawboo package, under MIT. See the package overview. Bundled third-party dependencies
The code listed below ships inside the published clawboo package (the bundled server and the dashboard UI). Full license texts are distributed with each package in node_modules. The authoritative table lives in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md; the summary here highlights the licenses you most need to know about.
| Package | License | Role |
|---|
@anthropic-ai/sdk | MIT | Provider SDK for the native runtime |
openai | Apache-2.0 | Provider SDK (also OpenRouter / Ollama via base URL) |
@modelcontextprotocol/sdk | MIT | The MCP server/client transport |
croner | MIT | Cron parsing for Routines |
better-sqlite3 | MIT | The SQLite driver behind the registry of record |
drizzle-orm | Apache-2.0 | Typed schema/query layer over SQLite |
zod | MIT | Runtime validation across packages |
react, react-dom | MIT | Dashboard UI |
@xyflow/react | MIT | React Flow canvas for the Ghost Graph / Atlas |
elkjs | EPL-2.0 | Graph layout backend for the Ghost Graph |
framer-motion | MIT | UI animation |
zustand | MIT | Client state |
@tanstack/react-query | MIT | Server-state caching |
codemirror | MIT | The agent-file editor |
lucide-react | ISC | Icons |
simple-icons | CC0-1.0 | Brand marks (provider/runtime logos) |
tailwindcss | MIT | Styling |
pino, ws | MIT | Logging and WebSocket transport |
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md:
- Apache-2.0 (
openai, drizzle-orm): used under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.
- EPL-2.0 (
elkjs): the graph-layout backend is used under the Eclipse Public License, Version 2.0. It is bundled unmodified; its source is available on npm and at the upstream repository linked in the notices file.
- CC0-1.0 (
simple-icons): the brand-mark paths are CC0-1.0, but the brand logos themselves remain the property of their respective owners. Clawboo renders provider and runtime marks from simple-icons where one exists, and uses original lettermark tiles otherwise (it never reproduces a logo simple-icons does not carry).
Development-only dependencies (Playwright, MSW, Vitest, Turbo, tsup, ESLint, jest-axe, axe-core) are used to build and test Clawboo and are not shipped in the npm package. Their licenses are listed in the notices file.
Bundled content: the marketplace catalog
The marketplace ships 304 agents and 82 teams (see the marketplace catalog reference for the full breakdown). The agent content is not invented; most of it is adapted from two MIT-licensed upstream repositories, ingested verbatim and pinned by commit SHA so the provenance is reproducible. The ingestion mechanism is codegen’d and gated; see Codegen & ingestion for how it works.
| Upstream | License | Pinned commit | Ingested into |
|---|
msitarzewski/agency-agents | MIT | 64eee9f8e04f69b04e78e150d771a443c64720be | 179 agency agents |
hesamsheikh/awesome-openclaw-usecases | MIT | 659895e58e2105c6db8fbef39f446c8a786a480c | 110 awesome-openclaw agents (from 42 usecase files) |
| Clawboo built-in | first-party (MIT, this repo) | , | 15 built-in agents (5 hand-authored 3-agent teams) |
AGENCY_AGENTS_SHA and AWESOME_OPENCLAW_SHA), and every generated catalog entry carries a sourceUrl that links back to the exact upstream file at that commit, for example:
https://github.com/msitarzewski/agency-agents/blob/64eee9f8e.../engineering/engineering-ai-data-remediation-engineer.md
https://github.com/hesamsheikh/awesome-openclaw-usecases/blob/659895e58.../usecases/ai-video-editing.md
identityTemplate field. The full upstream MIT license texts (copyright holders msitarzewski and Hesam Sheikh) are reproduced in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
The 15 Clawboo built-in agents are first-party content authored in this repo (5 team templates of 3 agents each, synthesized at import time rather than written as literal catalog rows). They carry no external attribution and an empty sourceUrl.
Runtime acknowledgements
Clawboo coordinates other open-source AI agent runtimes as peer teammates. Each runs on its own terms under its own license; Clawboo does not vendor their code; the adapters drive each runtime’s own CLI/SDK contract over MCP. The acknowledgements section of THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md credits:
- OpenClaw: the Gateway-driven connected substrate.
- Hermes (
hermes-agent), Claude Code (Anthropic Claude Agent SDK), and Codex (OpenAI Codex CLI): the wrapped-one-shot runtimes.
It also credits prior art in the agent-orchestration space (Paperclip, vibe-kanban, and Nous Research’s hermes-paperclip-adapter) as design inspiration only. No code or content from those projects is included in Clawboo; each adapter implements Clawboo’s own RuntimeAdapter trait, and the only overlap (the hermes chat CLI flags) is Hermes Agent’s own documented contract.
See also
