openclaw

openclaw is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from appletechie/perfect-goal. It costs 133 tokens per session (3,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Reference guidance for OpenClaw, a Node.js and TypeScript runtime that hosts multiple agents through a gateway.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps author OpenClaw plugins, understand their required files and configuration, debug gateway lifecycle issues, and plan headless Mac deployments.
Why use it?
It gives developers the project-specific knowledge needed to create plugins and troubleshoot gateway and machine-startup behavior across macOS and Linux.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/appletechie/perfect-goal/openclaw
Any agent
npx skills add appletechie/perfect-goal --skill openclaw
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/appletechie/perfect-goal

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 133 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,499 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 $0.00133 $0.03499
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01750
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00700
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00350

Measured 4d ago against content hash 546e89757620, 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 4d 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.

skills/openclaw/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw — Working Knowledge

OpenClaw is a Node/TypeScript-based agent runtime that hosts multiple agents per gateway. It runs on both Linux (docker containers on ubuntu-root) and macOS (native installs on mac-studio + vm-1/turkules). This skill compresses the high-leverage knowledge for authoring openclaw plugins, navigating the Mac boot-headless trio, and avoiding the traps that cost real engineering time.

If you're filing a multi-step goal involving openclaw, invoke /perfect-goal after reading this skill. They compose.


Codebase layout

OpenClaw plugins live at the root of moltbot-infra:

moltbot-infra/
├── plugins/                         # OpenClaw plugins (canonical location)
│   ├── mc-manifest/                 # Posts gateway manifest → MC every 60s
│   ├── mc-worker/                   # Pulls + executes MC tasks
│   ├── mc-remote/                   # MC-side remote control
│   ├── workspace-api/               # Workspace introspection
│   └── anthropic-attribution-headers/  # PARKED — pending LiteLLM /v1/messages fix
├── openclaw/
│   ├── overlays/                    # Per-gateway runtime overrides
│   │   ├── aurora.json
│   │   ├── sam.json
│   │   └── enduru.json
│   └── scripts/                     # openclaw-setup, deploy-mc-manifest.sh, etc.
├── mac/                             # Boot-headless installers (Macs only)
│   ├── install-mc-bridge-daemon.sh
│   ├── install-openclaw-gateway-daemon.sh
│   ├── migrate-to-official-tailscale-pkg.sh
│   ├── clean-tailscale-reinstall.sh
│   └── install-daily-restart-*.sh
└── scripts/
    └── deploy-mc-manifest.sh

Topology — Mac vs Linux

Linux (ubuntu-root, dokploy-root): OpenClaw runs as docker containers. 3 customer gateways currently — aurora, sam, enduru. Reach via docker exec <name> NOT SSH (see [[reference_openclaw_gateways_topology]]).

Mac (mac-studio at 100.85.126.47, vm-1/turkules at 100.87.215.64): OpenClaw runs as a system LaunchDaemon. Native install. Each Mac runs one gateway with multiple agents:

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 lines

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. 4d ago First seen · 226 lines · 133 tokens per session scan A 546e89757620

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openclaw is a skill published in the GitHub repository appletechie/perfect-goal (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 133 tokens to every session and 3,499 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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