A practical comparison of every personal AI agent worth installing in 2026 — and one underneath layer that simplifies running them. OpenClaw Cleared 345k Stars in 8 Weeks. Then the Ecosystem Showed Up. No open-source project has ever crossed 345,000 stars that fast. OpenClaw cleared a decade of React's record like it wasn't there. And almost as fast as the original landed, an entire *Claw ecosystem grew underneath it: NanoClaw, Hermes Agent, Nanobot, ZeroClaw, NullClaw, IronClaw, PicoClaw, Moltworker. A dozen variations on the same idea, all painting the same picture at once. A personal AI agent that lives on your laptop, talks to a local model, and actually gets things done. If you're picking one in 2026, "is local AI ready?" isn't the question anymore. The real one is: Which of these do I install, and where do I run it so it doesn't eat my home directory? That's the post. Why This Category Exploded in 2026 Three things happened at once. Local models stopped being toys.…