microsoft/openclaw-dev is an experimental template for running an OpenClaw AI assistant as a hosted service in Azure Container Apps. It supports development, testing, and single-tenant deployments, including access through Microsoft Teams and isolated execution for risky tools. The catalogue entries provide an agent, skill, and instructions for deploying and operating it.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to microsoft/openclaw-dev. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/openclaw-dev/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/openclaw-devWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/openclaw-dev/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/openclaw-dev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/openclaw-dev/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/microsoft/openclaw-dev/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/microsoft/openclaw-dev/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00774 | $0.00774 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00310 | $0.00310 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00155 | $0.00155 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00077 | $0.00077 |
Grade A, and why
openclaw-dev AGENTS.md 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
AGENTS.md — openclaw-dev
Guidance for AI coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Amp, and others) working in this repository.
This repo deploys OpenClaw as a secure, hosted AI assistant on Azure Container Apps, wired to Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models over a Managed Identity (no API keys), gated by Entra ID Easy Auth, with an optional Microsoft Teams channel. Alpha, single-tenant, dev/test.
Start here
For any deploy / configure / operate / Teams / troubleshoot / teardown request,
follow the full playbook in skills/openclaw-dev/SKILL.md.
It contains the command map, env-var contract, region list, and error catalog.
Non-negotiable rules
- Single entrypoint: use
./devclaw <cmd>(Windows.\devclaw.cmd <cmd>), a thin wrapper over the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Fall back toazddirectly only if the wrapper can't run. - Configure with
azd env set <KEY> <VALUE>beforedevclaw up. There is no.envfile. Model/version/capacity live ininfra/main.bicep, not env vars. - Teams is opt-in. Default deploy is browser-only (no bot, no Teams). To
enable the Teams add-on:
azd env set ENABLE_TEAMS truethen re-rundevclaw up(or just rundevclaw teams, which prompts and re-provisions). Don't create bot app registrations by default. - Restricted subscriptions/tenants: before
devclaw up, set whichever of these apply:SERVICE_MANAGEMENT_REFERENCE=<smr-guid>(tenants that require it on new app regs),SKIP_STORAGE=true(subscriptions whose Azure Policy blocks shared-key storage — ACA file mounts need shared keys today; gateway token + sessions won't persist across replica restarts). ACR admin is already disabled; image pulls use the container app's managed identity. - Region
AZURE_LOCATIONmust be in the allowed list ininfra/main.bicep; setAZURE_OPENAI_LOCATIONseparately if that region lacks the model SKU. - Azure OpenAI only today (default
gpt-5.4-mini). Don't claim Claude / other Foundry Models work yet — they're future scope. - Passwordless: model calls use Managed Identity (
disableLocalAuth: true). Never add or suggest API keys. - Never commit secrets.
_local/,.azure/,.azure-cli/,.azd-config/, the generatedteams/package/manifest.json, andteams/openclaw-teams-app.zipare gitignored. - Confirm before destructive actions (
devclaw down/azd down,az ad app delete, RBAC removal, deleting state): state what will be deleted and get explicit confirmation. Never use--force/--no-promptto skip it. - To pause cheaply use
devclaw stop(scale to 0, $0, state kept), notdown.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 53 lines · 774 tokens per session scan A 6556b6c852dc
openclaw-dev AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository microsoft/openclaw-dev (25 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 774 tokens to every session, about $0.0031 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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