Full explanation lands in the Concepts milestone. Each page below is currently a scoped stub.
The concept set
- The agent model: Boo, Boo Zero, and the five runtime classes.
- Teams and planes: teams plus the shared-plane / private-plane split.
- The board: the durable task board: state machine, atomic claim, dependencies.
- Delegation and orchestration: board-driven delegation via structured tags.
- Peer chat: mixed-runtime peer rooms and speaker selection.
- Memory: the shared Memory-MCP tier and per-runtime private memory.
- Capabilities: the unified capability inventory and manageability tiers.
- Verification: builder≠judge, the deterministic gate, and the critic.
- Governance: budgets, circuit breakers, caps, and approvals.
- Observability: the event log, traces, and fleet-health projection.
- Worktrees and handoff: the per-task system-of-record and cross-runtime handoff.
- Scheduling: Routines: team-task cron vs runtime-own-life cron.
- Gateway and events: the OpenClaw Gateway flow and the Bridge→Policy→Handler pipeline.
- Architecture invariants: the rules every change preserves.