Learn OpenClaw — Guides, References & Tutorials

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Getting Started

What Is an AI Agent?

New to AI agents? Start here — a plain-English explainer of what agents are and how they work.

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Install OpenClaw and have your agent running in under 5 minutes.

Real things people use OpenClaw for — from daily tasks to business automation.

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OpenClaw is free. Your real cost is the LLM API — here's every number explained.

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How OpenClaw stacks up against other AI assistant and automation tools.

Features

Build workflows, trigger actions from events, and run multi-step automations.

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Orchestrate teams of specialised agents working together on complex tasks.

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Talk to your agent with Whisper STT, ElevenLabs TTS, and wake word detection.

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Reach your agent over WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and iMessage.

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Browse and install skills, plugins, and integrations in seconds.

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Run for Free (Local LLM)

Run OpenClaw with zero API costs using Ollama, LM Studio, or Jan.ai — fully private and offline.

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Integrations

Connect OpenClaw to 500+ tools with the Model Context Protocol — GitHub, Notion, Slack, Stripe, and more.

Automate orders, inventory alerts, customer emails, and daily reports for your Shopify store.

Shopify guide →

Gmail & Google Calendar

Read emails, draft replies, create events, check availability, and set reminders — all from a message.

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Add OpenClaw to your Discord server. Talk to your AI agent from any channel or DM in about 15 minutes.

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n8n, Zapier & Make

Connect OpenClaw to 5,000+ apps. Trigger your agent from anything and send results anywhere — no code required.

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Architecture & Configuration

How OpenClaw works under the hood — the agent loop, memory system, and component layout.

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API key management, permission rules, sandboxing, and best practices for safe automation.

Security guide →

Run OpenClaw in an isolated Docker container — safer automation, easy updates, and server-ready deployment.

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Workspace Files

Your personal context card

Your agent's operating rules

Long-term curated memory

Scheduled background tasks

Agent identity & personality

Config Reference

JSON config — every field documented

YAML config — every field documented

Series: OpenClaw for SEO

Overview — What OpenClaw Can Do for SEO

What it can and can't do, which tools it connects to, and how it fits into your existing workflow. Start here.

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Part 1 — Content Audit

Crawl your site for missing meta tags, thin content, duplicate titles, and heading issues. Scheduled reports, zero manual work.

Part 2 — Rank Tracking

Connect to Google Search Console API for automated weekly rank reports, position drop alerts, and CTR monitoring.

Part 3 — Schema & Meta Generation

Generate FAQPage, Article, and Product JSON-LD schema at scale. Write meta descriptions automatically and audit existing markup for errors.

Part 4 — Backlink & Off-Page Monitoring

Monitor your backlink profile via Ahrefs API, get alerted to link losses, track brand mentions, and run competitor gap analysis automatically.

Part 5 — Content Strategy & Keyword Research

Find low-hanging-fruit keywords from GSC, run gap analysis, generate content briefs, build topic clusters, and automate your content calendar.

Series: OpenClaw for E-commerce

Overview — What OpenClaw Can Do for Your Store

What it can and can't do, which platform APIs it connects to (Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon), and how it fits your workflow. Start here.

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Part 1 — Inventory & Stock Monitoring

Low stock alerts, out-of-stock detection, reorder point automation, dead stock identification, and draft supplier reorder messages.

Part 2 — Order & Fulfillment Monitoring

Daily order summaries, fulfillment delay detection, carrier tracking alerts, returns volume monitoring, and high-value order flags.

Part 3 — Competitor Price Watching

Schedule competitor product page crawls, detect price changes, surface pricing gaps, and generate weekly price intelligence reports.

Part 4 — Review & Reputation Monitoring

Aggregate reviews across Google, Trustpilot, and Amazon. Alert on negative reviews, track sentiment, and auto-draft response suggestions.

Part 5 — Sales Reporting & Forecasting

Automated daily and weekly revenue reports, best and worst performers, revenue vs target tracking, slow mover alerts, and seasonal trends.

Series: OpenClaw for SaaS

Overview — What OpenClaw Can Do for Your SaaS Business

Which data sources it connects to (Stripe, Mixpanel, Intercom), the read-only safety model, and how to structure your agents for SaaS monitoring. Start here.

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Part 1 — MRR & Revenue Monitoring

Daily MRR snapshots, new vs expansion vs contraction vs churn MRR breakdown, overnight drop alerts, and weekly ARR summaries from Stripe.

Part 2 — Churn & Cancellation Alerts

At-risk account signal scoring, trial expiry without converting, downgrade velocity monitoring, and cancellation spike detection.

Part 3 — Product Usage & Engagement

DAU/WAU/MAU monitoring, feature adoption tracking, zero-login account alerts, onboarding completion rates, and usage anomaly detection.

Part 4 — Support & Customer Health

Ticket volume spike detection, SLA aging alerts, customer health scoring across accounts, CSAT trend monitoring, and multi-ticket account flags.

Part 5 — Failed Payments & Billing Health

Failed charge alerts, dunning status monitoring, expiring card detection, involuntary churn prevention, and refund rate tracking.

Series: OpenClaw for Developers

Overview — What OpenClaw Can Do for Your Dev Workflow

Which APIs it connects to, what it can monitor, the read-only safety model, and how to structure your AGENTS.md for developer use cases. Start here.

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Part 1 — GitHub Monitoring & PR Triage

Automate PR triage, flag stale issues, generate daily review queue summaries, track contributor activity, and create release notes from commits.

Part 2 — Error & Uptime Monitoring

Schedule endpoint health checks, summarise Sentry error groups, reduce alert noise by de-duplicating errors, and generate daily on-call briefings.

Part 3 — Dependency & Security Alerts

Detect outdated npm, pip, and gem packages, monitor the GitHub Advisory Database for CVEs, scan for license compliance issues, and get a weekly dependency health report.

Part 4 — CI/CD Pipeline Monitoring

Detect and summarise CI/CD build failures, identify flaky tests across runs, track deployment status, and get rollback trigger alerts for GitHub Actions and CircleCI.

Part 5 — Docs & Changelog Automation

Auto-generate changelogs from commits, detect stale documentation, check README drift, diff OpenAPI specs between releases, and send weekly engineering digests.

Series: OpenClaw for Real Estate

Overview — Real Estate Automation with OpenClaw

Which APIs connect to Zillow, Rentcast, and MLS data, who each part is for, data quality notes, and how to structure your AGENTS.md for real estate use cases.

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Part 1 — New Listing Alerts

Get notified the moment a new listing hits your target zip code. Filter by price, beds, baths, and days-on-market. Route alerts to Slack or email within hours of listing.

Part 2 — Price Changes & Days on Market

Track price reductions with dual thresholds (dollar + percentage), monitor DOM against local market averages, and surface motivated sellers before the competition.

Part 3 — Rental Market Monitoring

Pull average rents by bedroom count from Rentcast, track rent growth month-over-month, use rental DOM as a vacancy proxy, and benchmark your own units against the market.

Part 4 — Comparable Sales & Market Reports

Automate comp pulls and CMA research. Filter recently sold properties by distance, sqft, and age, compute price-per-sqft, and generate formatted reports instantly.

Part 5 — Portfolio Valuation Monitoring

Track estimated values and equity across your entire portfolio using Zestimates. Get monthly snapshots, equity tables, appreciation tracking, and gross yield calculations.

Quick Reference

Every command, config key, and shortcut on a single page. Bookmark this.

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Plain-English definitions for every term in the OpenClaw ecosystem.

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Troubleshooting

Agent not responding? Telegram not working? Skills failing? Fix the 20 most common errors here.

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