Openclaw Deployment

This skill should be used when deploying or debugging a self-hosted OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot/Moltbot) agent gateway — a Node.js personal-assistant service bridging Telegram/WhatsApp/Discord to an LLM with tool/skill access. Covers install, secure baseline config (loopback bind, token auth, exec approval gating), the two non-obvious config traps that silently break things (model selection vs. API key, exec security vs. ask), Telegram channel lockdown, configuring the web_search tool/Brave provider, voice-note transcription (tools.media.audio/Groq), memory indexing and its embedding-provider auth (openclaw memory index/status), evaluating ClawHub skills/plugins by real usage data, and building trustworthy custom skills instead of pulling from the unvetted ClawHub marketplace. Trigger phrases include "openclaw config", "openclaw gateway", "tools.exec.security", "openclaw model not found", "ProviderAuthError No API key found for provider openai", "exec denied security=deny", "openclaw dashboard", "openclaw pairing", "ClawHub skill", "openclaw skills install local", "openclaw web search", "tools.web.search.provider", "web_search provider is not available", "openclaw plugins install clawhub", "plugins.allow is empty", "tools.media.audio", "voice memo transcription", "openclaw skills search --json", "ClawHub popular skills", "EXTERNALLY-MANAGED pip openclaw", "AgentMail openclaw", "clawdbot paths in skill", "openclaw memory index", "memorySearch.provider", "memory index failed no api key", "credit_balance_exhausted", "insufficient_quota embeddings", "memory index --force", "scoped sudo for openclaw agent", "dispatch script security boundary", "openclaw agent --message-file", "openclaw agent --session-key timeout", "brief openclaw on new capabilities", "openclaw treats primer as prompt injection", "openclaw session jsonl toolCall", "arm olu with new tools", "expand openclaw agent privilege incrementally", "skill_workshop", "openclaw agent rejects everything as injected", "telegram reply quote looks like injection", "exec preflight complex interpreter invocation", "did openclaw actually send this or hallucinate it", "journalctl vs session transcript openclaw", "how to hand openclaw a new capability", "openclaw agent won't trust primer document".

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-deployment
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/openclaw-deployment/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-deployment/SKILL.md

@misc{openclaw-deployment-2026,
  author    = {jackson2w},
  title     = {Openclaw Deployment [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/openclaw-deployment/}
}