openclaw

openclaw is an agent for coding agents from a5c-ai/babysitter. It costs 0 tokens per session (341 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide and adapter for running the OpenClaw command line tool, which lets an AI model receive prompts and call tools. It covers installation, provider keys, model selection, sessions, and supported options.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run OpenClaw prompts, connect MCP servers, stream text and tool calls, and manage saved session files. It supports macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Why use it?
It gives developers one documented way to install and run OpenClaw while making its limits clear, such as no structured JSON output or image support.

Agent

About the project

Babysitter is a workflow engine for AI coding agents that enforces predefined steps, quality checks, human approvals, and decision records. It is used to coordinate complex, repeatable agent workflows across supported coding tools. The catalogue contains skills, agents, instructions, settings, a plugin, and an MCP integration for its workflow.

a5c-ai/babysitter · 1,769 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/a5c-ai/babysitter/openclaw
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 341 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00341
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00034

Measured 5d ago against content hash 722cc6b6df7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/adapters/reference/agents/openclaw.md · 59 lines

What it actually says

OpenClaw

Adapter for the OpenClaw CLI.

Install

adapters install openclaw

Supported on macOS, Linux and Windows.

Auth

  • Provider API keys — OpenClaw is provider-agnostic; set provider-specific env vars (e.g. ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY).

Config file: ~/.openclaw/config.json.

Minimal run

adapters run openclaw --prompt "Generate a CHANGELOG entry"

Notable flags

  • --model <id> — default default.
  • --prompt <text> — forwarded prompt.
  • --auto-approve — emitted when approvalMode: 'yolo'.

Session files

  • Location: ~/.openclaw/sessions/*.jsonl
  • JSONL; events text, message, tool_call are parsed.

Plugins

Plugin support: no. Use MCP servers for extensibility.

MCP Servers

adapters mcp install openclaw <mcp-server>
adapters mcp list openclaw

Registry: https://modelcontextprotocol.io

Capabilities

Tool calling with parallel calls, tool-call streaming, text streaming, 128k context.

Known limitations

  • No thinking / reasoning mode.
  • No JSON / structured output.
  • No image input/output, no file input.
  • Only a generic default model is bundled — specify provider models explicitly via --model.
  • Global config only (supportsProjectConfig: false).
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 59 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 722cc6b6df7f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openclaw is an agent published in the GitHub repository a5c-ai/babysitter (1,769 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 341 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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