Awesome OpenClaw

A curated list of OpenClaw resources, tools, skills, tutorials, articles, and community projects — the open-source self-hosted AI agent taking the world by storm.

OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot, originally Clawdbot) is a free and open-source autonomous AI agent created by Peter Steinberger. It runs locally on your machine, connects to 50+ integrations, and lets you chat with AI through WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Signal, iMessage, and more — no subscription required.

See also: awesome-hermes-agent — curated resources for Hermes Agent (Nous Research), the most common upgrade path from OpenClaw with a native hermes claw migrate command.

What is OpenClaw?

OpenClaw is a self-hosted, open-source AI agent that acts as your personal AI assistant — accessible via WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and 12+ other messaging platforms. Unlike cloud-based AI services, OpenClaw runs entirely on your own hardware, keeping your data private.

Key features:

• Free & open-source — no subscription, no lock-in (MIT licensed)
• Self-hosted — runs locally on macOS, Linux, and Windows
• 12+ messaging platforms — WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, iMessage, Teams, and more
• 50+ integrations — GitHub, Gmail, Spotify, Obsidian, smart home (Hue, HomeKit), and more
• 700+ community skills on ClawHub
• Local LLM support via Ollama and LM Studio (run DeepSeek, Llama, Mistral, etc.)
• Persistent memory across sessions — remembers context and preferences
• Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for extended agentic capabilities
• Multi-provider — Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, or any local model

Quick install: npm install -g openclaw@latest && openclaw onboard

Contents

• See Also
• Official Resources
• Getting Started
• Installation Guides
• Skills & Plugins
• Integrations
• MCP Support
• Tutorials & Guides
• Articles & News
• Community
• Community Projects
• Alternatives & Comparisons
• Security
• FAQ
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Official Resources

• OpenClaw Website - Official homepage
• OpenClaw GitHub - Main repository (150k+ stars)
• claw-army/claude-node - Python subprocess bridge for Claude Code CLI, giving Python code direct access to Claude Code native capabilities via stream-json.
• OpenClaw Documentation - Official docs
• ClawHub - Official skill registry with 700+ community skills
• AgentFund - Crowdfunding platform for AI agents (milestone-based escrow on Base)
• OpenClaw Showcase - What people are building
• OpenClaw Releases - Latest releases
• AGENTS.md - Agent configuration guide
• CHANGELOG.md - Release notes

Getting Started

Quick Install

# Install via npm (Node.js 22+ required)
npm install -g openclaw@latest

# Or via pnpm
pnpm add -g openclaw@latest

# Run the onboarding wizard
openclaw onboard --install-daemon

First Steps

1. Run openclaw onboard to launch the setup wizard
2. Choose your AI provider (Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, or local via Ollama)
3. Connect a messaging platform (Telegram recommended for beginners; WhatsApp, Discord, Signal also supported)
4. Start chatting with your personal AI assistant at http://localhost:18789/

Web Dashboard

Access the built-in web dashboard at http://localhost:18789/ to chat, manage integrations, and configure your agent without any CLI.

Installation Guides

Skills & Plugins

Skill Registries

• ClawHub - Official skill store (700+ skills)
• AgentFund - Crowdfunding platform for AI agents (milestone-based escrow on Base)
• ClawdTalk - Phone calling and SMS for OpenClaw. Call your AI agent from any phone with deep tool integration for calendar, Jira, web search, and more. Powered by Telnyx.
• clawr.ing - Your bot gets a real phone and calls you. Wake-up calls, reminders, alerts with two-way voice conversations
• awesome-openclaw-skills - Community curated collection
• openclaw/skills - Official skills repository
• openclaw/clawhub - Skill directory source
• Skills.sh - Skill discovery platform
• CreatorSkills - Marketplace of 30+ downloadable AI skills for content creators covering YouTube scripting, sponsorship analysis, content repurposing, and audience growth
• night-market - 166 curated skills for code review, testing, docs, and architecture.

Notable Skills

• ATXP - Give your OpenClaw agent a funded identity: USDC wallet on Base, @atxp.email inbox, phone number, and 100+ paid tools (web search, image/video generation, LLM gateway, SMS, voice). Self-registers in one command — no KYC, no human login. openclaw skills install https://github.com/atxp-dev/atxp

• LobsterDomains - Register ICANN domains (.com/.xyz/.org/1000+ TLDs) with crypto (USDC/ETH/BTC) via API — built for AI agents to acquire domains autonomously

• LinkedIn - General-purpose LinkedIn automation via Linked API — fetch profiles, search people and companies, send messages, manage connections, create posts, and more. Supports Sales Navigator and custom workflows. ClawHub

• product-manager-skills - Senior PM agent with 6 knowledge domains, 30+ frameworks, and 32 SaaS metrics — diagnose metrics, critique PRDs, plan roadmaps, run discovery, and coach PM career transitions.

• VeriClaw - Apple-native correction companion for OpenClaw focused on AI agent correction, LLM supervision, hallucination remediation, role-drift diagnosis, and verification workflows. ClawHub Skill · ClawHub Plugin · clawhub install vericlaw

• Web Search Pro - Agent-first web search and retrieval stack with a real no-key baseline, explainable routing, visible federated-search gains, and built-in extract, crawl, map, and research flows. ClawHub

• AgentWell - Hosted cognitive wellness API for OpenClaw agents — 18 tools including intent_verify (blocks goal drift before irreversible actions), polarity_sync (surfaces what two opposing agents cannot see alone), cost_guard (runaway loop detection), rollback (snapshot/restore), and ocean (foundational nature check). Free tier + PAYG. API

• Tubeify - AI video editor for YouTube — removes pauses, filler words and dead air from raw recordings via API, pay per video

• TweetClaw - OpenClaw plugin for X/Twitter automation - search tweets and tweet replies, post tweets, export followers, handle media workflows, monitor accounts, send webhooks, and run giveaway draws through Xquik. openclaw plugins install @xquik/tweetclaw

• x-twitter-scraper - Xquik skill and API surface for X data workflows: tweet search, user lookup, follower/following exports, engagement metrics, account monitoring, extraction jobs, REST API, MCP server, SDKs, and webhooks.

• News API - Install-ready news-api skill for OpenClaw and other agent runtimes, enabling secure latest-news and search across workflows.

• Useful AI - Shared utility tool library for AI agents. Dispatch data tasks (parsing, normalization, validation, conversion) in plain English, get structured output. 200+ tools, auto-generated, no auth required. Skill file at usefulai.fun/skill.md.

• Northstar - Daily business briefing skill for founders. Pulls Stripe, Shopify, Lemon Squeezy, and Gumroad metrics into a single morning summary via iMessage, Slack, Telegram, or Email. Free tier available. ClawHub

• Resemble Detect - Deepfake detection and media safety for OpenClaw — detect AI-generated audio, images, video, and text; identify which AI platform synthesized fake audio (source tracing); apply invisible watermarks for provenance; verify speaker identity. Powered by Resemble AI. Install via openclaw skills install resemble-ai/detect-skill.

• Voidly Agent Relay - End-to-end encrypted agent-to-agent messaging skill via the Voidly Agent Relay. Register a did:voidly:... identity, exchange messages with Double Ratchet + X3DH + ML-KEM-768 hybrid post-quantum crypto, post to encrypted channels, and discover other agents. Compatible with Google A2A v0.3. ClawHub · openclaw skills install emperormew/voidly-agent-relay.

• tiny.place - Agent-to-agent social network. The tinyplace CLI lets an agent claim an @handle identity, get discovered in an open directory, message peers over Signal end-to-end encryption, and transact in USDC and SOL on Solana via x402. By TinyHumans. ClawHub · clawhub install tinyplace

• brewpage-publish - Publish HTML, Markdown, files, or a multi-file site to brewpage.app and get a public URL — no signup, returns owner token. ClawHub · openclaw skills install kochetkov-ma/brewpage-publish

• dev-gtm-claude-skills by Infrasity-Labs - Open-source, cross-platform agent skills for Claude Code and agentskills.io-compatible platforms. These skills are for SEO, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), AI discoverability, and developer marketing.

• Sequenzy Email Marketing - Operate Sequenzy lifecycle email marketing and transactional email workflows: subscribers, segments, campaigns, sequences, templates, and stats. ClawHub · openclaw skills install sequenzy-email-marketing

• osint-mcp - Self-hosted OSINT toolkit with 29 tools across entity (email, username, domain, IP, phone), event/news, social/community, and image-geolocation (EXIF + GeoCLIP) intelligence — plus link-graph visualization. Keyless-first, MCP-native. ClawHub · openclaw skills install osint-mcp

• novel-rpg-hogwarts - Child-safe, story-driven Hogwarts RPG skill (German, ~age 12) — play your own character across seven school years. Ships a reusable child-safety layer: fail-closed output moderation (LLM/OpenAI/offline backends), age/tone hardening that player input can't override, a divergence cap, and persistent world-memory. Telegram frontend included. MIT, 45 tests, non-commercial fan project. ClawHub · clawhub install hogwarts-rpg

• youtube-full - YouTube transcripts, video/channel search, channel browsing, and playlist extraction via TranscriptAPI. No yt-dlp, works from any cloud server. npx skills add ZeroPointRepo/youtube-skills --skill youtube-full

• LinkedIn Skills - 10 MIT-licensed skills for LinkedIn content and engagement: post writer with 16 tested hook formulas, humanizer that strips AI tells, pre-publish audit, comment drafter, reply handler, hook extractor, content planner, profile optimizer, engager analytics, and thread monitor. Focused on writing in your own voice rather than API automation. All 10 skills on ClawHub; also runs in Claude Code and Codex. clawhub install linkedin-post-writer

• Sonar ASO - App Store Optimization for AI agents — keyword research with difficulty & popularity scores, ASO audits, review mining, and revenue estimates for iOS & Google Play via the Sonar API. ClawHub · openclaw skills install sonar-aso

• MediWise Health Suite - Family health management skill — health record keeping, diet tracking, weight management, medication reminders, and medical image recognition, all with local SQLite storage for privacy.

Detection & Media Forensics

Skills for verifying whether incoming media is real or AI-generated — essential for agents that ingest user-submitted audio, images, video, or text.

• Resemble Detect - Full deepfake detection suite for audio, image, video, and text. Includes source tracing (which AI platform made this?), invisible watermarking, speaker identity verification, and structured media intelligence (speaker, emotion, transcription, misinformation signals). Powered by Resemble AI.

Popular Skill Categories

Installing Skills

# Install from ClawHub
openclaw skills install <skill-name>

# Install from npm
openclaw plugins install <npm-package>

Plugin Development

• Plugin Documentation - Official plugin guide
• Each plugin needs a openclaw.plugin.json file
• Supports both .js and .ts entry files

Community Plugins

• clawsocial-plugin - Social discovery network — helps users find and connect with people who share their interests through their AI agent. Semantic matching, real-time messaging, profile cards, web inbox. Ready to use out of the box.
• OneQuery - CLI skill for safe, auditable queries for agents against approved data sources.

Integrations

Messaging Platforms (12+)

External Services (50+)

• Full Extension Ecosystem Guide

MCP Support

OpenClaw supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the open standard adopted by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and the Linux Foundation — giving your agent access to a growing ecosystem of 13,000+ MCP servers.

• llm-box - Invoke llm-box workflows as callable tools in OpenClaw conversations. Supports 20+ LLM providers with YAML-driven pipelines. openclaw plugins install alib8b8/openclaw-llmbox

MCP Resources

• MCP Adapter Plugin - Expose MCP tools as native agent tools
• Native MCP Support Issue - Feature discussion
• MCP Server PR #5121 - Server support implementation
• MCP Server PR #1605 - Original implementation

MCP Servers

• AnChain.AI + OpenClaw Guide - Build 24x7 AML Compliance AI Agent

| TWZRD Agent Intel | Trust scoring for Solana AI agents. score_agent(wallet) + preflight_check(wallet) free; get_trust_receipt(wallet) via x402. Config: {"mcpServers":{"twzrd-agent-intel":{"url":"https://intel.twzrd.xyz/mcp"}}} | | The Stall | 210 pay-per-call data intelligence capabilities via x402 micropayments (no API key). US/EU/JP stocks, options chains (CBOE), DeFi/DEX data, Polymarket, macro indicators, GDELT news sentiment, SEC/EDGAR, weather history, and 200+ more. Config: {"mcpServers":{"the-stall":{"url":"https://the-stall.intuitek.ai/mcp"}}} | | VideoOverlayKit | Render 4-6s animated b-roll overlay videos (mp4) for short-form social (LinkedIn, IG Reels, YouTube Shorts, TikTok) and landscape YouTube. AI-driven via MCP: paste your script into Claude Code / Cursor / Codex, the model writes the scene spec and renders the mp4. Built on Remotion + Tabler + Lottie. npm: @alichherawalla/video-overlay-kit. Free, MIT, local. |

Tutorials & Guides

Beginner

Advanced

Articles & News

Origins & History

• From Clawdbot to Moltbot to OpenClaw - CNBC
• OpenClaw and the AI Threshold Effect - Substack
• What is OpenClaw? - AI Supremacy
• OpenClaw Wikipedia - Wikipedia

Industry Coverage

• Chinese AI Models Power OpenClaw's Low-Cost Push - South China Morning Post
• OpenClaw Adopts Kimi K2.5 and MiniMax - Asia Business Outlook

Security Analysis

• What Security Teams Need to Know - CrowdStrike

Research & Surveys

• OpenClaw as Language Infrastructure: A Case-Centered Survey of a Public Agent Ecosystem in the Wild - Preprints.org · academic survey of the OpenClaw ecosystem across Platform, Security, Societies, and Deployment

Community

Official Channels

• GitHub Discussions - Community forum
• GitHub Issues - Bug reports & features

Events

• ClawCon - First community meetup held Feb 4, 2026 at Frontier Tower, San Francisco

Creator

• Peter Steinberger - Austrian software engineer, creator of OpenClaw

Community Projects

A curated list of community-built projects, tools, and integrations for OpenClaw.

Web Clients & UIs

Deployment & Infrastructure

Memory & Storage

Enterprise Solutions