OpenClaw will integrate with the Codex native protocol, and the Anthropic protocol will also be supported.

According to 1M AI News monitoring, OpenClaw maintainer Onur Solmaz announced today on X that OpenClaw will now support both ACP (Agent Client Protocol) and OpenAI's Codex App Server protocol, emphasizing "the more interoperability and choice, the better." He also mentioned that if Anthropic develops its own protocol, it will also be integrated.

Currently, OpenClaw already supports Codex, Claude Code, and other programming Agents through the ACP protocol, allowing users to directly invoke these Agents for programming tasks in Discord channels and Telegram threads. With the addition of Codex App Server protocol support, users can now experience Codex natively within OpenClaw. Developer Harold Hunt demonstrated a preview of the corresponding plugin, enabling task planning and answer revision similar to Codex Desktop.

ACP is an open standard adopted by JetBrains, Zed, and others, facilitating communication between Agents using JSON-RPC 2.0; Codex App Server is a conversational protocol designed by OpenAI specifically for Codex, supporting session creation, restoration, and branching. By simultaneously integrating both sets of protocols, OpenClaw is evolving from an AI agent framework to a multi-protocol unification layer.