About this guide
An independent, community-maintained field guide to OpenClaw — written to be practical, current, and honest about what works.
What this is
A practical, opinionated guide to installing OpenClaw, connecting channels and tools, setting up memory, and running local AI agents safely. It is written for developers and power users who want to get something working without reading every page of the reference docs.
How we keep it accurate
OpenClaw ships changes almost daily. We check claims — version numbers, commands, flags, channel lists, ports — against the authoritative sources: the official docs at docs.openclaw.ai, the GitHub releases, the openclaw package on npm, and the ClawHub registry. When something changes, we correct it and log it on the Updates page.
Kept current
We track OpenClaw's stable and beta releases and summarise the changes that actually matter when OpenClaw is part of your day. Subscribe via RSS to follow along.
This is a community resource, not the official OpenClaw website. OpenClaw is an open-source project under the MIT License. For canonical, always-current information, see the official channels below. If anything here conflicts with the official docs, trust the docs.
Official OpenClaw resources
Who maintains this
The OpenClaw Guide is built and maintained by Hooray Digital, a web design and digital studio in Brisbane, Australia. We run AI agents in our own work, and we built this guide as the resource we wished existed when we started — kept current because we use it ourselves.
Found an error?
OpenClaw moves fast and we may miss something. If a command, version, or claim looks wrong, please flag it via the OpenClaw issues (for product questions) or reach out to Hooray Digital for corrections to this guide.
Why "OpenClaw Guide"?
Because a great agent setup is mostly plain text and clear boundaries — and that is exactly the kind of practical, repeatable knowledge a field guide should capture.
Independent & free
This guide is free to read and not affiliated with or endorsed by the OpenClaw project. It is provided as-is, in good faith, to help more people run useful agents safely.