OpenAgent is a self-hostable personal AI assistant that combines language models, document-based retrieval, and autonomous agent loops. It lets people connect model providers and their own knowledge bases, then have agents browse the web, run code, use computers, and call MCP-compatible tools.
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.
npx skills add the-open-agent/openagent --skill node-connectgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/the-open-agent/openagentWrote 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/skills/the-open-agent/openagent/node-connect)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/the-open-agent/openagent/node-connect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-open-agent/openagent/node-connect/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/skills/the-open-agent/openagent/node-connect"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/the-open-agent/openagent/node-connect.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00081 | $0.01124 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00032 | $0.00450 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00016 | $0.00225 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00112 |
Grade A, and why
node-connect 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.
This is a copy
88% identical to node-connect — 44 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Node Connect
Goal: find the one real route from node -> gateway, verify OpenClaw is advertising that route, then fix pairing/auth.
Topology first
Decide which case you are in before proposing fixes:
- same machine / emulator / USB tunnel
- same LAN / local Wi-Fi
- same Tailscale tailnet
- public URL / reverse proxy
Do not mix them.
- Local Wi-Fi problem: do not switch to Tailscale unless remote access is actually needed.
- VPS / remote gateway problem: do not keep debugging
localhostor LAN IPs.
If ambiguous, ask first
If the setup is unclear or the failure report is vague, ask short clarifying questions before diagnosing.
Ask for:
- which route they intend: same machine, same LAN, Tailscale tailnet, or public URL
- whether they used QR/setup code or manual host/port
- the exact app text/status/error, quoted exactly if possible
- whether
openclaw devices listshows a pending pairing request
Do not guess from can't connect.
Canonical checks
Prefer openclaw qr --json. It uses the same setup-code payload Android scans.
openclaw config get gateway.mode
openclaw config get gateway.bind
openclaw config get gateway.tailscale.mode
openclaw config get gateway.remote.url
openclaw config get gateway.auth.mode
openclaw config get gateway.auth.allowTailscale
openclaw config get plugins.entries.device-pair.config.publicUrl
openclaw qr --json
openclaw devices list
openclaw nodes status
If this OpenClaw instance is pointed at a remote gateway, also run:
openclaw qr --remote --json
If Tailscale is part of the story:
tailscale status --json
Read the result, not guesses
openclaw qr --json success means:
gatewayUrl: this is the actual endpoint the app should use.urlSource: this tells you which config path won.
Common good sources:
gateway.bind=lan: same Wi-Fi / LAN onlygateway.bind=tailnet: direct tailnet accessgateway.tailscale.mode=serveorgateway.tailscale.mode=funnel: Tailscale routeplugins.entries.device-pair.config.publicUrl: explicit public/reverse-proxy routegateway.remote.url: remote gateway route
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 · 143 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 3b89d261b573
node-connect is a skill published in the GitHub repository the-open-agent/openagent (5,708 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 81 tokens to every session and 1,124 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to node-connect, differing in 44 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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