openclaw-setup

openclaw-setup is a skill for Claude Code from TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin. It costs 65 tokens per session (978 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

An installation and setup guide for OpenClaw, a self-hosted gateway that connects messaging apps to AI coding agents. It covers macOS, Linux, and Windows through WSL2.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install OpenClaw, configure its daemon, onboard it, or build it from source.
Why use it?
It brings the required runtime, installer choices, onboarding, background service, and common installation fix into one setup path.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the openclaw plugin — 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to install OpenClaw, configure its daemon, onboard it, or build it from source.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/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 TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin --skill openclaw-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 978 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00065 $0.00978
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00098

Measured 10d ago against content hash b7a8bef162ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

openclaw-setup scanned grade D with 3 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 10d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

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

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash
plugins/openclaw/skills/openclaw-setup/SKILL.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Installation & Setup

Guide the user through installing and configuring OpenClaw, a self-hosted gateway connecting messaging apps to AI coding agents.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js 22+ required. Check with node --version.
  • OS: macOS, Linux, or Windows (WSL2 strongly recommended over native Windows).

Installation Methods

Installer Script (Recommended)

Detects Node.js, installs if missing, installs the CLI globally via npm, and launches the onboarding wizard.

macOS / Linux / WSL2:

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr -useb https://openclaw.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Skip onboarding (install CLI only):

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- --no-onboard

npm (Manual)

npm install -g openclaw@latest
openclaw onboard --install-daemon

If sharp build errors occur:

SHARP_IGNORE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS=1 npm install -g openclaw@latest

pnpm

pnpm add -g openclaw@latest
pnpm approve-builds -g
openclaw onboard --install-daemon

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw.git
cd openclaw
pnpm install && pnpm ui:build && pnpm build
pnpm link --global
openclaw onboard --install-daemon

Onboarding Wizard

Run openclaw onboard --install-daemon to start the interactive wizard. It configures:

  1. Model/Auth - Choose provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.), enter API key or use SecretRef for env-backed credentials.
  2. Workspace - Set workspace directory (default: ~/.openclaw/workspace).
  3. Gateway - Configure port (default 18789), bind address, auth mode (token or password).
  4. Channels - Optionally set up WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, etc.
  5. Daemon - Install as LaunchAgent (macOS) or systemd user service (Linux/WSL2).
  6. Health Check - Starts gateway and verifies it's running.

Use openclaw configure to reconfigure later.

Service Installation

macOS (LaunchAgent)

Installed automatically by openclaw onboard --install-daemon. Auto-starts on login.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 10d ago First seen · 128 lines · 65 tokens per session scan D b7a8bef162ae

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openclaw-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 978 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, downloads and executes remote code, 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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