QClaw V2 debuts in China

Tencent rolled out QClaw V2 in China on April 9, adding multi-agent teamwork and direct links to office apps in version 0.2.5. (ithome.com) QClaw is Tencent’s local artificial intelligence assistant, built on OpenClaw and designed to run on a user’s own machine instead of only in the cloud. Tencent says the product entered full public beta on March 20 and can be installed in about 20 seconds from its official site. (qclaw.qq.com) (cloud.tencent.com) The V2 release lets users run as many as three agents in parallel, with each agent assigned a different role, tone, experience profile, or permission set. Tencent’s examples split one job into research, coding, and review, and the software also ships with three preset personas for writing, coaching, and programming. (news.qq.com) (ithome.com) The other major change is a connector system that lets QClaw act inside other software without forcing users to copy and paste results by hand. Tencent says the first batch connects with Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, ima, Kingsoft Docs, Tencent Survey, Notion, and email, and that one-time authorization removes repeated logins across apps. (ithome.com) (news.qq.com) Tencent said those connectors are aimed at the “last mile” problem in office automation: an agent can draft a report, but a human still has to move it into a document, calendar, or inbox. In Tencent’s description of V2, generated content can now be written directly into documents or sent by email from the chat interface. (ithome.com) (news.qq.com) Tencent also attached a safety layer called “Lobster Guardian,” which it said is enabled by default for new users. The company said the system watches prompts, skills, and script execution, and can block malicious instructions, poisoned tools, mistaken file deletion, and risky network access. (news.qq.com) (ithome.com) That focus on local execution is central to how Tencent is positioning QClaw. The company’s product pages say data stays on the user’s device, while the assistant connects to messaging services including WeChat, QQ, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and Discord and can keep running through a scheduler. (qclaw-openclaw.com) (qclaw-openclaw.com/zh) Before V2, Tencent had already pushed QClaw as a remote-work assistant tied to Chinese messaging platforms. A March 20 Tencent Cloud community post said the public beta covered five instant-messaging tools — WeChat, WeCom, QQ, Feishu, and DingTalk — and added scheduled task management for recurring jobs. (cloud.tencent.com) The V2 launch looks less like a brand-new product than a tighter packaging of features Tencent has been adding over the past month: broader messaging coverage in March, then multi-agent work, app connectors, and built-in guardrails in April. Tencent said QClaw has already gone through more than 30 feature iterations since public testing began. (cloud.tencent.com) (news.qq.com) For now, the release is framed as a China-focused productivity update: more agents working at once, fewer manual handoffs between apps, and a stronger case for keeping the assistant on the user’s own computer. (news.qq.com) (qclaw.qq.com)