openclawwatch 0.1.9

Local-first OTel-native observability for Autonomous AI agents

OpenClawWatch

The open-source LLM observability tool for autonomous agents.

No cloud. No signup. No surprises.

pip install openclawwatch

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Your agent sends emails, writes files, calls APIs, and spends your money — all while you're away. Most observability tools were built for LLM developers building chat products. ocw was built for agents with real-world consequences: real-time cost tracking, safety alerts, behavioral drift detection, all running locally on your machine.

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What you get

Real-time cost tracking. Every LLM call is priced as it happens — by agent, model, session, and tool. Budget alerts fire before you hit the limit, not after.

Safety alerts. Configure any tool call as a sensitive action (send_email, delete_file, submit_form) and get notified instantly via ntfy, Discord, Telegram, webhook, or stdout.

Behavioral drift detection. ocw builds a statistical baseline from your agent's real behavior and alerts when something deviates — a prompt tweak, a model update, a dependency bump. No LLM required.

Tool output validation. Declare a JSON Schema for your tools or let ocw infer one automatically. Schema violations are caught the moment they occur.

100% local. DuckDB. Local REST API. No cloud backend. No API key for ocw itself. Your telemetry never leaves your machine unless you explicitly export it.

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Get started

ocw works four ways. Pick the one that fits.

Coding agents — zero code

For Claude Code, Codex, and any agent that already emits OpenTelemetry. No SDK, no code changes.

pip install "openclawwatch[mcp]"
ocw onboard --claude-code    # or: ocw onboard --codex
# Restart your coding agent

Every session, API call, tool use, and error is now a tracked span with cost and alert evaluation. The MCP server gives your coding agent 13 tools to query its own telemetry mid-session — just ask "how much have I spent today?" or "are there any active alerts?"

Full Claude Code & Codex setup →

Python SDK

For any Python agent — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock, LangChain, CrewAI, and 10+ more.

pip install openclawwatch
ocw onboard    # creates config, generates ingest secret
ocw doctor     # verify your setup

from ocw.sdk import watch
from ocw.sdk.integrations.anthropic import patch_anthropic

patch_anthropic()    # auto-intercepts all Anthropic API calls

@watch(agent_id="my-agent")
def run(task: str) -> str:
    # your agent code — nothing else to change
    ...

One-line patches exist for every major provider and framework. See all integrations →

TypeScript SDK

For any Node.js / TypeScript agent. Sends spans to ocw serve over HTTP.

npm install @openclawwatch/sdk

import { OcwClient, SpanBuilder } from "@openclawwatch/sdk";

const client = new OcwClient({
  baseUrl:      "http://127.0.0.1:7391",
  ingestSecret: process.env.OCW_INGEST_SECRET ?? "",
});

const span = new SpanBuilder("invoke_agent")
  .agentId("my-ts-agent")
  .model("gpt-4o-mini")
  .provider("openai")
  .inputTokens(450)
  .outputTokens(120)
  .build();

await client.send([span]);

Any OTel-compatible agent

Already emitting OpenTelemetry? Point your OTLP exporter at ocw serve — no SDK needed:

ocw serve &
export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://127.0.0.1:7391
# run your agent as usual

Framework	OTel support
Claude Code	Built-in — ocw onboard --claude-code
OpenClaw	Built-in (diagnostics-otel plugin) — setup guide
LlamaIndex	opentelemetry-instrumentation-llama-index
OpenAI Agents SDK	Built-in
Google ADK	Built-in
Strands Agent SDK (AWS)	Built-in
Haystack	Built-in
Pydantic AI	Built-in
Semantic Kernel	Built-in

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CLI

ocw status

● my-email-agent   completed   (2m 14s)

  Cost today:     $0.0340 / $5.0000 limit
  Tokens:         12.4k in / 3.8k out
  Tool calls:     47
  Active session: sess-a1b2c3

  send_email called (sensitive action: critical)

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b94d13f6-1432-40d4-b093-6958d74f0e65

ocw status           # current state, cost, active alerts
ocw traces           # full span history with waterfall view
ocw cost --since 7d  # cost breakdown by agent, model, day
ocw alerts           # everything that fired while you were away
ocw budget           # view and set daily/session cost limits
ocw drift            # behavioral drift Z-scores vs baseline
ocw tools            # tool call history with error rates
ocw serve            # start the web UI + REST API

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Web UI

ocw serve starts a local dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:7391/.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ff09caec-3487-4542-8628-d62b7d92591f

• Status — agent overview with cost, tokens, tool calls, and active alerts
• Traces — trace list with span waterfall visualization
• Cost — breakdown by agent, model, day, or tool
• Alerts — alert history with severity filtering
• Budget — view and edit daily/session cost limits per agent
• Drift — behavioral drift report with Z-score analysis

No signup, no cloud — runs entirely on your machine.

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ocw vs LangSmith vs Langfuse

LangSmith and Langfuse are excellent for tracing LLM API calls and running evals on chat outputs. ocw solves a different problem: autonomous agents running unsupervised with real-world consequences.

	ocw	LangSmith	Langfuse	Datadog LLM Obs
Signup required	❌	✅	✅	✅
Data leaves your machine	❌	✅	cloud only	✅
Real-time sensitive action alerts	✅	❌	❌	❌
Behavioral drift detection	✅	❌	❌	❌
Local-first, no cloud required	✅	❌	self-host only	❌
OTel GenAI SemConv native	✅	partial	partial	partial
NemoClaw sandbox events	✅	❌	❌	❌
Works with any agent/framework	✅	LangChain-first	partial	❌
Free, MIT licensed	✅	freemium	freemium	paid

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Claude Code + coding agents

Claude Code

Monitor every Claude Code session — costs, tool calls, API requests, errors — with two commands:

pip install "openclawwatch[mcp]"
ocw onboard --claude-code
# Restart Claude Code, then:
ocw status --agent claude-code-<project>

ocw onboard --claude-code does everything in one shot:

• Creates a shared config at ~/.config/ocw/config.toml (one config for all projects)
• Writes OTLP exporter vars to ~/.claude/settings.json
• Tags this project by writing OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES to .claude/settings.json
• Registers the MCP server globally (claude mcp add --scope user ocw -- ocw mcp)
• Installs a background daemon (launchd on macOS, systemd on Linux)
• Adds Docker harness-compatible OTLP env vars to ~/.zshrc

Claude Code must be restarted after running ocw onboard --claude-code.

Adding more projects — run once per project directory:

cd /path/to/other-project
ocw onboard --claude-code   # tags this project, no reinstall needed
# Restart Claude Code

Each project gets its own agent ID (claude-code-<repo-name>), all sharing one server and one ingest secret.

MCP server

The MCP server gives Claude Code direct access to your observability data inside the session. 13 tools available after restart:

Tool	What it does
get_status	Current agent state — tokens, cost, active alerts
get_budget_headroom	Budget limit vs spend
list_active_sessions	All running sessions across agents
list_agents	All known agents with lifetime cost
get_cost_summary	Cost breakdown by day / agent / model
list_alerts	Alert history with severity filtering
list_traces	Recent traces with cost and duration
get_trace	Full span waterfall for a trace
get_tool_stats	Tool call counts and average duration
get_drift_report	Drift baseline vs latest session
acknowledge_alert	Mark an alert as acknowledged
setup_project	Configure a project for OCW telemetry
open_dashboard	Open the web UI (starts ocw serve if needed)

The MCP server opens DuckDB read-only — no lock conflicts with ocw serve.

Per-project tagging — after installing globally, ask Claude Code:

"Set up OCW for this project"

Claude calls setup_project, which writes .claude/settings.json with the right OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES for this project.

Codex

Monitor every Codex session — run once, globally:

pip install "openclawwatch[mcp]"
ocw onboard --codex

ocw onboard --codex is project-agnostic. It writes to ~/.codex/config.toml (Codex's single global config), so you only run it once — not once per project. Codex hardcodes service.name="codex_exec" in its binary, so all sessions appear under the same agent ID regardless of which repo you're working in.

ocw onboard --codex:

• Writes an [otel] block and [mcp_servers.ocw] to ~/.codex/config.toml
• Registers the MCP server so Codex can call OCW tools directly
• Installs the background daemon (launchd / systemd)

Codex must be restarted after running ocw onboard --codex.

ocw status --agent codex_exec   # check it's working

The same 13 MCP tools available to Claude Code are available to Codex after restart.

Uninstalling

# Remove all OCW data, config, daemon, MCP registration, and env vars:
ocw uninstall --yes

# Then remove the package:
pip uninstall openclawwatch -y

ocw uninstall cleans up everything set by ocw onboard --claude-code: daemon, MCP server, ~/.ocw/, ~/.config/ocw/, OTLP env vars in ~/.claude/settings.json, OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES in every onboarded project's .claude/settings.json, and the harness env block in ~/.zshrc.

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Supported frameworks

Python — provider patches

Intercept at the API level. Framework-agnostic.

from ocw.sdk.integrations.anthropic import patch_anthropic   # Anthropic
from ocw.sdk.integrations.openai    import patch_openai      # OpenAI
from ocw.sdk.integrations.gemini    import patch_gemini      # Google Gemini
from ocw.sdk.integrations.bedrock   import patch_bedrock     # AWS Bedrock
from ocw.sdk.integrations.litellm   import patch_litellm     # LiteLLM (100+ providers)

patch_litellm() covers all providers LiteLLM routes to (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Vertex, Cohere, Mistral, Ollama, etc.). If you use LiteLLM, you don't need individual patches.

OpenAI-compatible providers (Groq, Together, Fireworks, xAI, Azure OpenAI) work via patch_openai(base_url=...).

Python — framework patches

Instrument the framework's own abstractions:

from ocw.sdk.integrations.langchain         import patch_langchain        # BaseLLM + BaseTool
from ocw.sdk.integrations.langgraph         import patch_langgraph        # CompiledGraph
from ocw.sdk.integrations.crewai            import patch_crewai           # Task + Agent
from ocw.sdk.integrations.autogen           import patch_autogen          # ConversableAgent
from ocw.sdk.integrations.llamaindex        import patch_llamaindex       # Native OTel
from ocw.sdk.integrations.openai_agents_sdk import patch_openai_agents    # Native OTel
from ocw.sdk.integrations.nemoclaw          import watch_nemoclaw         # NemoClaw Gateway

Full framework support guide: docs/framework-support.md

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Alert channels

Configure where alerts go. Multiple channels work simultaneously.

# .ocw/config.toml

[[alerts.channels]]
type = "ntfy"
topic = "my-agent-alerts"   # push to your phone, free, no account

[[alerts.channels]]
type = "discord"
webhook_url = "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/..."

[[alerts.channels]]
type = "webhook"
url = "https://your-endpoint.com/alerts"

Alert types: sensitive_action · cost_budget_daily · cost_budget_session · session_duration · retry_loop · token_anomaly · schema_violation · drift_detected · failure_rate · network_egress_blocked · filesystem_access_denied · syscall_denied · inference_rerouted

Full alert reference — trigger conditions, cooldown config, content stripping, all 6 channel types: docs/alerts.md

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NemoClaw support

Running OpenClaw inside NVIDIA NemoClaw? ocw connects to the OpenShell Gateway WebSocket and turns sandbox events — blocked network requests, filesystem denials, inference reroutes — into alerts.

from ocw.sdk.integrations.nemoclaw import watch_nemoclaw

observer = watch_nemoclaw()
asyncio.create_task(observer.connect())

This is the observability layer that NemoClaw doesn't ship with.

Full event table and configuration: docs/nemoclaw-integration.md

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Export and integrate

ocw export --format otlp       # forward to Grafana, Datadog, any OTel backend
ocw export --format openevals  # openevals / agentevals trajectory evaluation
ocw export --format json       # NDJSON
ocw export --format csv

Prometheus metrics at http://127.0.0.1:7391/metrics when ocw serve is running.

Export filtering flags, REST API endpoints, and API docs: docs/export.md

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Architecture

flowchart TD
    Agent["Your agent"]

    Agent --> Terminal["Coding agents\nClaude Code · Codex"]
    Agent --> PythonSDK["Python SDK\n@watch + patch_*"]
    Agent --> TypeScriptSDK["TypeScript SDK\n@openclawwatch/sdk"]

    Terminal --> OTLP["OTLP export"]
    PythonSDK --> Exporter["OcwSpanExporter"]
    TypeScriptSDK --> HTTP["POST /api/v1/spans"]
    OTLP --> HTTP

    Exporter --> Ingest
    HTTP --> Ingest

    Ingest["IngestPipeline\nSanitize · Session continuity · Extract"]

    Ingest --> Cost["CostEngine\npricing.toml"]
    Ingest --> Alerts["AlertEngine\n13 types · 6 channels"]
    Ingest --> Schema["SchemaValidator\nJSON Schema + infer"]

    Cost --> DB["DuckDB\nlocal · embedded"]
    Alerts --> DB
    Schema --> DB

    DB --> CLI["ocw CLI"]
    DB --> API["REST API + Web UI\n:7391"]
    DB --> MCP["MCP Server\n13 tools"]
    DB --> Prom["Prometheus\n:7391/metrics"]

Full architecture deep-dive — design principles, SDK internals, alert system, testing: docs/architecture.md

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Configuration

# .ocw/config.toml — generated by ocw onboard

[defaults.budget]
daily_usd = 10.00

[agents.my-email-agent]
description = "Personal email management agent"

  [agents.my-email-agent.budget]
  daily_usd   = 5.00
  session_usd = 1.00

  [[agents.my-email-agent.sensitive_actions]]
  name     = "send_email"
  severity = "critical"

  [agents.my-email-agent.drift]
  enabled           = true
  baseline_sessions = 10
  token_threshold   = 2.0

[capture]
prompts      = false
completions  = false
tool_outputs = false

[storage]
path           = "~/.ocw/telemetry.duckdb"
retention_days = 90

Budget limits merge per-field: each agent inherits defaults unless overridden. Set via CLI (ocw budget --daily 10), API, or web UI. Run ocw doctor to verify.

Config file discovery order, full config schema, API auth, capture settings: docs/configuration.md

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CLI reference

16 commands: onboard, doctor, status, traces, cost, alerts, budget, drift, tools, demo, export, mcp, serve, stop, uninstall. All support --json for machine-readable output.

Global flags, per-command options, exit codes: docs/cli-reference.md

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Examples

The examples/ directory has runnable agents for every integration:

• Single provider — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock, OpenAI Agents SDK
• Single framework — LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, LlamaIndex
• Multi-integration — provider router, CrewAI + LangChain, RAG with fallback
• Alerts and drift — sensitive action alerts, budget breach, drift detection (no API keys needed)

python examples/single_provider/anthropic_agent.py
python examples/alerts_and_drift/drift_demo.py     # no API key needed

See examples/README.md for the full list.

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Agent Incident Library

Reproducible AI agent failures you can run in 30 seconds. No API keys, no config, no setup.

ocw demo                     # list all scenarios
ocw demo retry-loop          # run one
ocw demo retry-loop --json   # machine-readable output

Scenario	What goes wrong	What OCW catches
retry-loop	Agent retries a failing tool in a loop, burning time and tokens	retry_loop + failure_rate alerts fire automatically
surprise-cost	Model silently escalates from Haiku to Opus mid-chain	Per-model cost breakdown shows the $3+ you didn't expect
hallucination-drift	Agent behavior shifts — different tokens, different tools	drift_detected alert fires with Z-scores at session end

Each scenario runs against an in-memory backend and produces a side-by-side comparison: what print() shows vs. what OCW reveals.

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Architecture

See AGENTS.md for codebase conventions.

PRs welcome. If you're adding a framework integration, open an issue first.

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Roadmap

Shipped:

• ocw serve background daemon (launchd / systemd)
• Web UI with auto-polling (status, traces, cost, alerts, budget, drift)
• LiteLLM provider patch (100+ providers)
• ocw stop and ocw uninstall
• Claude Code integration (ocw onboard --claude-code)
• Codex integration (ocw onboard --codex)
• OpenClaw integration (zero-code via diagnostics-otel plugin)
• NemoClaw sandbox observer (WebSocket gateway events)
• OTLP log-to-span pipeline (Claude Code log events)
• ocw budget CLI, API, and web UI
• ocw drift with Z-score reporting
• Full pipeline wiring (alerts, schema, drift in ocw serve)
• MCP server — 13 tools for Claude Code

Up next:

• ocw watch — live tail mode for spans
• ocw replay — replay captured sessions against new model versions
• TypeScript framework patches (LangChain JS, OpenAI Agents SDK)
• Vercel AI SDK integration (TypeScript)
• Mastra integration (TypeScript)
• Azure AI Agent Service integration
• Docker image
• GitHub Actions for CI drift/cost checks

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