Puter is a full-stack, self-hosted 'internet computer' — a browser-based desktop environment (file manager, app launcher, AI services, static-site hosting, serverless workers) backed by a Node.js kernel. The repo is a monorepo of five interlocking sub-packages: a TypeScript backend kernel (`src/backend`), a browser GUI (`src/gui`), a published JavaScript SDK (`src/puter-js`), a CLI (`src/cli`), and a Cloudflare-Worker port (`src/worker`) plus an MCP connector (`src/mcp-connector`). The kernel is the centerpiece: it layers clients (MySQL/Postgres/SQLite, DynamoDB, S3, Redis, email, alarms), stores (user, app, FS entry, session, share, permission, group, KV, OIDC, notification, subdomain), services (auth, FS, metering, permission, ACL, broadcast, notification, OIDC, app-icon, health), controllers (REST + WebDAV + WISP + Peer endpoints), and drivers (AI chat/TTS/STT/image/video/OCR, KV, apps, subdomains, notifications, workers) behind a custom `PuterServer` that wires them together with ordered peer-dependency construction. Configuration is a three-tier deep-merge (config.default.json → config.json → PUTER_CONFIG_PATH) computed at startup. The backend is well-tested with vitest unit, integration, and benchmark suites; the SDK ships with Playwright e2e tests. The GUI is a large, jQuery-based desktop UI with its own webpack build and a component system. Notable engineering: a type-safe permission/ACL system with rewriters and implicators, a metering/subscription model in microcents, a multi-engine database abstraction with ordered migrations, a driver pattern with per-operation cost tables, a token v1→v2 silent-migration path, a reauth coordinator with shared in-flight promises, and a worker-types package that provides template-literal route-param inference for the worker runtime. The codebase is actively maintained (June 2026), uses current Node 24 / TypeScript 5.9 / Express 5 tooling, and has CI for backend tests, docs builds, release-please, and Docker image publishing.
ClawManager is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native control plane for managing AI agent runtimes (OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenCode, DeepSeek Harness, Workbuddy). It provides instance lifecycle management, secure AI gateway proxying with governance and cost tracking, skill management (import, versioning, hub), team collaboration with leader-mediated orchestration, and a comprehensive security protection platform (SecPlane) covering runtime behavior, egress policy, intrusion detection, and compliance reporting. The backend is built in Go with Gin, uses MySQL for persistence, Redis for real-time events, and the Kubernetes client-go library for orchestration. The frontend is a React 19 SPA with TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, and i18n support for five languages. The repository also includes Playwright-based E2E tests, Docker Compose local development stacks, and a Hermes desktop web component with its own build pipeline. While the codebase demonstrates solid architecture (repository pattern, service layer, middleware), some areas show drift (many SQL migrations, hardcoded dev secrets, incomplete feature flags) and the sheer number of runtime types and configurations introduces complexity.