openclaw-setup

openclaw-setup is a skill for Claude Code from Aznatkoiny/zAI-Skills. It costs 188 tokens per session (2,668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for OpenClaw, a self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs on your computer or server and connects to messaging apps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to deploy OpenClaw on a Mac or VPS, connect channels such as Telegram or iMessage, and configure authentication and cost controls.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of installing the assistant, connecting chat services, configuring model access, and applying basic security settings.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code; built for openclaw.

Part of the ai-toolkit plugin — 6 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to deploy OpenClaw on a Mac or VPS, connect channels such as Telegram or iMessage, and configure authentication and cost controls.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aznatkoiny/zai-skills/openclaw-setup
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Aznatkoiny/zAI-Skills --skill openclaw-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aznatkoiny/zAI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 188 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,668 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. ✓ AI security review Sonnet 5 · 7 Sept 2026 📄 Read the review
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 5.1 $0.00188 $0.02668
Opus 5 $0.00094 $0.01334
Sonnet 5 $0.00038 $0.00534
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00267

Measured 7d ago against content hash d43c8fcc763d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw-setup scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 7d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Install method:** `curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash` then `openclaw onboard --install-daemon`
AI-Toolkit/skills/openclaw-setup/SKILL.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Setup Skill

Deploy and configure OpenClaw — the open-source personal AI assistant (145k+ GitHub stars) — safely and correctly. This skill handles the full lifecycle: installation, Anthropic model auth, channel wiring (Telegram + iMessage), security hardening, cost control, and deployment to either a local Mac mini or a Hostinger VPS.

Facts current as of July 2026 — verify pricing and model IDs against https://docs.claude.com before quoting them.

What is OpenClaw?

OpenClaw is a self-hosted, conversation-first AI assistant built on LLMs. Originally launched as "Clawdbot" (November 2025), renamed to "Moltbot" (January 27, 2026) after Anthropic trademark concerns, then became "OpenClaw" (January 30, 2026). It runs a local Gateway (WebSocket control plane) on your machine or server and connects to messaging channels you already use — Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and 50+ others. The assistant responds through those channels using models from Anthropic, OpenAI, or other providers.

Key facts:

  • Runtime: Node.js ≥22.12.0, TypeScript, pnpm monorepo
  • Architecture: Gateway (control plane) → Pi agent (RPC) → LLM provider
  • Recommended model: Anthropic Claude Opus 5 (claude-opus-5) via OAuth (Pro/Max subscription) for best prompt-injection resistance and long-context strength; Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5) is the cost-efficient alternative, with Claude Haiku 4.5 (claude-haiku-4-5) for lightweight channels and heartbeat
  • Install method: curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash then openclaw onboard --install-daemon
  • Config location: ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json (JSON5 format)
  • Default port: 18789 (WebSocket + HTTP multiplexed)
  • Minimum context window: 64K tokens
  • License: MIT

⚠️ CRITICAL SECURITY PREREQUISITES

Before ANY installation, these four steps are non-negotiable:

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 204 lines · 188 tokens per session scan E d43c8fcc763d

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openclaw-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aznatkoiny/zAI-Skills (9 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 188 tokens to every session and 2,668 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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