ECP vs OpenClaw

OpenClaw-style products are personal agents with connectors and a chat UI. ECP (Execution Control Protocol) is the delegation capability those products (or any harness) can call.

Positioning

	Personal-agent product	ECP
Surface	Chat, connectors, memory	CLI, workflow files, journals
Scope	The whole harness	One capability inside a harness
Replay	Session history	`ecp runs show` / `rerun --from`

Use the product when you want an assistant. Use ECP when the assistant should hand off a repeatable, policy-bound graph instead of re-prompting.

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