An operations guide for OpenClaw, a local AI assistant system built around a long-running gateway that routes tools, channels, clients, and agents.

Use it to install or migrate OpenClaw, configure workspaces and agents, manage gateway routing and tool permissions, connect communication channels, and troubleshoot operations.

It gathers setup, routing, security, and troubleshooting guidance in one place for running the system reliably.

openclaw — Skill by itechmeat

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/itechmeat/llm-code/openclaw

Any agent

npx skills add itechmeat/llm-code --skill openclaw

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/itechmeat/llm-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,935 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00071	$0.04935
Opus 5	$0.00036	$0.02468
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.00987
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00494

Measured 2d ago against content hash ecc6715b8c7f, 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 2d 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 · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw (Operator Playbook)

This skill is self-contained and includes operational documentation directly in this file.

Core Model

OpenClaw is gateway-centric: one long-lived Gateway per host is the control plane.
Clients and nodes connect via typed WebSocket API; channels/providers are orchestrated by gateway.
Session safety depends on deterministic routing + queueing + explicit policy controls.

Day-1 Setup

Run onboarding with daemon install.
Confirm the active config path and validate config before first edits.
Verify gateway health/status.
Open Control UI/dashboard for first chat.
Add channels/providers only after baseline health is stable.

If OpenClaw is not installed, use references/installation.md.

Gateway Operations

Keep default posture loopback + auth enabled.
For remote access, prefer Tailscale Serve or SSH tunnel over public bind.
Non-loopback binds require strict token/password controls.
Use supervised process mode (launchd/systemd) for reliability.
For config changes, treat config.apply as controlled rollout and config.patch as targeted merge.
Remember patch semantics: objects merge, arrays replace, null deletes.
Treat restart boundaries explicitly: channels/agents/messages/tools often hot-apply, while bind/port and other gateway infra settings commonly require openclaw gateway restart.

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

10 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.

2d ago First seen · 296 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A ecc6715b8c7f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

openclaw is a skill published in the GitHub repository itechmeat/llm-code (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 4,935 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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