Verdict
IronClaw ships native macOS builds for Apple Silicon, so a Mac Studio can host the agent and a large local model side by side, with Ollama as its provider. Its WebAssembly tool sandbox needs nothing from the host OS. Until October 2026 this page said IronClaw needs Asahi Linux for gVisor; IronClaw documents no gVisor and publishes aarch64 macOS binaries.
Setup notes
Install the aarch64-apple-darwin release with its installer script, run ironclaw onboard and pick Ollama or another provider. On macOS onboarding also installs and starts the background service and prints the link to the WebUI.
Performance
No measurement of ours. Local model speed is the Mac Studio's, through Ollama: see the local LLM benchmarks guide for published figures.
What breaks
- Docker sandbox jobs without a Docker runtime on the Mac
- A confined shell: the shell tool, once enabled, runs on the host
Sources
The agent's defaults and settings above were read in its own documentation on 2026-10-18.
- IronClaw README (main, b0b999d): install, onboarding, security, licence
- IronClaw docs: shell tool, off unless ALLOW_LOCAL_TOOLS=true
- IronClaw release ironclaw-v1.4.1: macOS, Linux (x86_64, ARM64) and Windows builds
Want to know more
See the IronClaw page and the Mac Studio M3 Ultra spec sheet.