The Hatchling
Discover what OpenClaw is, choose your AI model, and get your first agent running. No experience required.
What is OpenClaw?
Meet the lobster AI agent that's taking the world by storm. Here's what makes it different from your regular chatbot.
Installing OpenClaw
Set up your environment, pick your AI model, and get OpenClaw running.
Connecting OpenClaw to Telegram
Create a Telegram bot, wire it up to OpenClaw, and have your first real conversation with your AI agent.
Secure Your Setup
Lock down your OpenClaw instance before it becomes someone else's. Sandbox mode, token scoping, tool restrictions, and the security audit.
Create Your Security Agent
Build Argus Panoptes — a dedicated security agent that monitors your OpenClaw setup around the clock so you don't have to.
Daily Workflows
Turn OpenClaw from something you talk to into something that works for you — with cron jobs, heartbeats, and automation patterns you can copy and paste.
Memory That Works
OpenClaw forgets by default. Learn the three failure modes that cause memory loss and the three config fixes that make your agent actually remember.
Using Your Memory
Now that memory is configured, learn where files live, how sessions and memory work together, and the daily habits that build a genuine second brain.
QMD Supercharged Search
Install QMD — the open-source local search engine that combines BM25, vector embeddings, and reranking to turn your memory into a searchable second brain.
Troubleshooting
When your lobster stops responding, cron jobs go silent, or config changes vanish — here's how to diagnose, fix, and prevent the most common OpenClaw problems.