Gateway Control Plane Architecture
- Entity ID:
ent-20260423-p3a000000003 - Type:
pattern - Scope:
private - Status:
active
Description
OpenClaw's architectural center: a persistent daemon that owns messaging-surface connections and coordinates clients, tools, and device nodes over a typed WebSocket protocol. The embedded agent runner (Pi-agent core) sits inside this dispatch layer rather than being the architectural center itself, with per-session queue serialization and an optional global lane to prevent tool/session races across multi-channel surfaces. Contrasts with Claude Code's queryLoop-as-center design.
Key claims
- Claude Code vs OpenClaw: loop-as-center vs loop-as-component
- Opposite bets follow from different trust models and deployment topologies
Relations
- OpenClaw --[contains]--> Gateway Control Plane Architecture
- Gateway Control Plane Architecture --[contrasts_with]--> Query Loop State Object