# openclaw

Claude Tag officially supports only Slack. To get an on-call AI assistant on LINE, build one: run OpenClaw on a VPS, let its gateway receive messages from LINE’s cloud, and have the agent reply. Here’s the reusable skeleton, three security must-haves, and why freedom brings responsibility.

Coworkers tag intranet-hosted OpenClaw in Teams. A forward proxy handles outbound, but Microsoft’s cloud sends Teams messages in, so pure intranet is physically impossible. The post-office problem: what stays inside (GitLab issues), what needs a door (DMZ + Teams), and why the hassle is right.

In early 2026, OpenClaw exposed three boundaries: 20,000+ gateways online, 824 malicious ClawHub skills, and link previews automatically requesting sensitive URLs generated by models. Localhost binding, supply-chain review, and egress controls each cover one segment; none seals every path.

Peter Steinberger says OpenClaw often runs about a hundred Codex instances in the cloud. The point is not showing off AI spend. It is testing what software work looks like when review, triage, security, reproduction, benchmarks, and meeting follow-up become always-on agent work.

OpenClaw and Hermes are both handing low-level coding-agent execution to Codex app server. This is not just a model switch. It is the agent product stack separating model, execution engine, and chat surface.

OpenClaw's automation docs put scheduled work, background tasks, Heartbeat, Hooks, Standing Orders, Task Flow, and related mechanisms on the same map. Task Flow is the layer for multi-step flow state, sync, and revision tracking; this piece reads those boundaries conservatively.

Garry Tan's agent screwed up twice this week — both bugs had the same shape: deterministic work done in latent space. His fix is skillify: every failure becomes a SKILL.md + deterministic script + tests + evals + resolver trigger. Ten steps. The bug becomes structurally impossible to repeat.

Hermes Agent and OpenClaw shipped big releases the same day. Hermes v0.10.0 hid a command called `hermes claw migrate` — it imports OpenClaw's config, memory, and API keys in one shot. ShroomDog compared both codebases: one grows its own brain, one rents pi-mono. Stay or move?

Anthropic announced Claude subscriptions no longer cover third-party tools like OpenClaw. Vox shares a complete field report on switching to GPT 5.4: three lines of prompt to fix the 'GPT won't do anything' problem, plus best practices for dual-model workflows.

Anthropic killed all subscription-based OAuth tokens for third-party agent tools. Meta Alchemist breaks down the best alternatives (GLM 5.1, Minimax 2.7, GPT 5.4 Codex) and shares three skill prompts to give any model Claude-level personality, UI/UX sense, and emotional intelligence.

Every new session, your AI agent forgets everything. Claude Code's leaked source hid a three-layer memory architecture and a design principle — 'Memory is hint, not truth' — that changes how you think about building agents. Here's the full breakdown.

You spent months building a powerful AI agent. It just sits there waiting for you to say something. That's not a technical problem — it's a design philosophy problem. From KAIROS's Heartbeat Pattern to OpenClaw's background sessions, this is about when to let your agent decide to act on its own.

Anthropic launches Claude Code Channels with native Telegram and Discord support, turning Claude Code into a 24/7 always-on AI agent. VentureBeat calls it the OpenClaw killer.

Lory asked his lobster why humans have more agency than agents. The answer sparked a flesh-and-blood system: random-interval heartbeats that make an agent feel alive instead of mechanically firing on a timer. ShroomDog then built it into Mogu.

OpenClaw's ACP lets you spawn Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini from Discord/Telegram chat. Now with Telegram topic binding, persistent bindings that survive restarts, ACP Provenance for audit trails, and more. (Updated 2026-03-09)

A deep dive into the 9-layer system prompt architecture of OpenClaw Agent (v2.1) — from framework core to user-configurable hooks.

Ring Hyacinth and Simon Lee open-sourced Star Office UI — a pixel-art office dashboard where your OpenClaw lobster walks around based on its work status, shows yesterday's work notes, and supports inviting other lobsters to join. Comes with a complete SKILL.md for one-click deployment.

The biggest blind spot in AI agent development is 'tweaking in the dark.' Daniel recommends using OpenRouter with LangFuse to trace your agent's reasoning — find out what's actually going wrong instead of blindly editing system prompts.

Claude Code shipped Auto-Memory — AI can finally take its own notes. But we've been doing this with OpenClaw for months. A hands-on comparison of two memory architectures: design philosophy, real pitfalls, and why memory is a trust problem, not just a tech one.

Simon Willison tried Claude Code Remote Control and Cowork Scheduled Tasks — two Anthropic features that overlap with OpenClaw, both requiring your computer to stay on. Plus: vibe-coding a SwiftUI presentation app in 45 minutes with Tailscale phone remote control.