Microsoft Autopilot is built on OpenClaw, with contributions flowing both ways

Microsoft introduced Autopilot, a persistent personal agent built on OpenClaw, as part of its new Copilot experience, with a private preview expanding to first customers at the end of this month. Autopilot is the new name for Microsoft Scout, announced earlier this year, and Omar Shahine's team says it is working with OpenClaw and the OpenClaw Foundation on an enterprise-grade runtime. OpenClaw highlights upstream contributions from Microsoft engineers, including policy conformance checks, a native Windows companion, and reliability fixes for background jobs, restarts and duplicate replies.