About This Site

This website (openclaw-ai.online) is a resource and documentation site for OpenClaw AI, a self-hosted personal AI assistant. This site provides comprehensive documentation, tutorials, guides, and reference materials to help users understand, install, configure, and use OpenClaw.

📚 What This Site Provides

This documentation site is not the OpenClaw project website. It is an independent resource site created to help users learn about and use OpenClaw AI.

For the OpenClaw project, including source code, issues, discussions, and community contributions, please visit:

OpenClaw (formerly known as Moltbot and Clawdbot) is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that enables you to run a powerful AI assistant on your own hardware. Key features include:

• Complete Data Privacy: All data stays on your devices
• Multi-Platform Support: Works on macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android
• Multiple Channels: Connect via WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Chat, Signal, iMessage, Microsoft Teams, WebChat, BlueBubbles, Matrix, Zalo, Zalo Personal, and more
• Extensible Skills: Create custom skills or use community-built ones
• Browser Automation: Navigate websites and automate web tasks
• Voice Features: Voice wake, push-to-talk, and text-to-speech support
• Persistent Memory: Long-term memory system that learns your preferences
• Workflow Automation: Automate complex tasks and workflows

OpenClaw is an open-source project licensed under the MIT License, developed by the OpenClaw community. The project is becoming an independent foundation and remains open source. It is not affiliated with Anthropic or other AI service providers.

Highlights from the current stable release:

• Context engine plugin: ContextEngine plugin slot with full lifecycle hooks; enables alternatives like lossless-claw for context management without modifying core compaction.
• ACP: Persistent Discord channel and Telegram topic bindings; ACP thread targets survive restarts; Telegram topic thread binding (--thread here|auto).
• Web UI: Spanish (es) locale for Control UI; onboarding web search provider selection with SecretRef support.
• Tools/Web search: Perplexity switched to Search API with structured results; language/region/time filters.
• Gateway: SecretRef support for gateway.auth.token with auth-mode guardrails.
• Docker: OPENCLAW_EXTENSIONS for preinstalling extension npm deps into images; multi-stage build, slim variant.
• Plugins: prependSystemContext and appendSystemContext for provider caching; hook policy allowPromptInjection.
• Breaking: When both gateway.auth.token and gateway.auth.password are configured (including SecretRefs), explicit gateway.auth.mode is now required. Set to token or password before upgrade. Full changelog

Full changelog: v2026.3.7 on GitHub. All releases: Releases · openclaw/openclaw. Earlier: v2026.3.2 (PDF tool, SecretRef, Telegram streaming), v2026.3.1 (gateway health endpoints, Android nodes), v2026.2.26 (External Secrets, ACP agents).

2026.2.26: External Secrets Management (openclaw secrets), ACP thread-bound agents, openclaw agents bindings/bind/unbind, Codex WebSocket-first, channel-plugin onboarding hooks, Gemini OAuth risk gate, Android device/notifications. Fixes: Telegram/DM allowlist, delivery queue backoff, Google Chat/Nextcloud Talk lifecycle, typing pipeline, Teams file uploads, compaction/onboard scope.

2026.2.25: Android chat streaming and markdown, heartbeat directPolicy (allow|block), onboarding security notices (personal-by-default), branding to ai.openclaw, gateway/auth security (pairing for shared-token operator, WebSocket origin checks, Control UI trusted-proxy). Subagent delivery, Telegram webhook, Slack threads, cron routing, model fallback, typing-indicator fixes.

2026.2.24: Auto-reply/abort stop phrases (multilingual), Android four-step onboarding and five-tab app, Talk/Gateway provider-agnostic config, security.trust_model.multi_user_heuristic, heartbeat DM block default (overridden by directPolicy in 2026.2.25), sandbox container-namespace block. Routing, Discord voice/streaming, WhatsApp/Matrix/Telegram/Android/Slack/Zalo/macOS fixes. Details in Installation, CLI, and Security.

This documentation site was created to provide:

Some projects are inspired by OpenClaw but use a different stack (e.g. Claude Code instead of the full OpenClaw Gateway). They can be useful if you want a minimal, channel-focused setup. This site does not endorse or maintain them; links are for discovery only.

While we strive to keep this documentation accurate and up-to-date, the source of truth for OpenClaw is the project’s GitHub repository. If you find any discrepancies or have questions, please refer to the repository or open an issue there.

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