Openclaw
OpenClaw QuickStart (10): Production Deploy and the Failure Modes Nobody Warns You About
Putting OpenClaw on a real server: an ECS box, pm2 as the supervisor, nginx in front, certs renewed by acme.sh. Then the long tail — the seven failures I have seen at least twice in production, and what each one actually …
OpenClaw QuickStart (9): The China IM Picker, with Honest Tradeoffs
DingTalk, Feishu (deprecated), WeCom in three flavors, WeChat customer service, public accounts, and the WorkBuddy desktop bridge. A picker matrix and the actual config blocks for the two paths that work in 2026.
OpenClaw QuickStart (8): Heartbeat, Cron, and Getting Pinged at 7am
The two scheduling primitives in OpenClaw — Heartbeat is a patrol with a pulse, Cron is a kitchen timer. Concrete configs for a daily briefing, a weekly report, a competitor watcher, and the one anti-pattern that wakes …
OpenClaw QuickStart (7): The Memory System, Without the Magic
MEMORY.md as a 40-line index, memoryFlush before compaction, semantic search through bge-m3, and the v2026.3.7 ContextEngine that finally moves memory out of the agent's hands. What it actually saves you, and where it …
OpenClaw QuickStart (6): Skills, MCP, and Shipping Something Real
Write your first Skill, attach an MCP server for browser automation, schedule it as a cron, and ship a real morning-briefing agent. The point where the install becomes a tool you'd miss if it disappeared.
OpenClaw QuickStart (5): Wiring Telegram, DingTalk, and the WeChat Reality
Telegram in five minutes, DingTalk in fifteen, WeChat in 'it depends'. Concrete config blocks for each channel and an honest take on which to start with depending on where you actually live.
OpenClaw QuickStart (4): Configuration, Model Providers, and the Coding Plan Trick
openclaw.json walkthrough, when to use which model provider, and why the Aliyun Bailian Coding Plan is the cheapest sane way to run heavy agent workloads from China — 200元/month gets you 8 models including Claude.
OpenClaw QuickStart (3): The Six Layers That Make the Agent Loop Work
The Gateway, Pi Agent, Tools, Skills, Memory, and Channels — what each does, how they fit, and why the separation matters when you start writing your own skills.
OpenClaw QuickStart (2): Install and First Chat in 10 Minutes
Install OpenClaw on macOS or Ubuntu, plug in a model provider, run the TUI, and have a working agent in ten minutes. Plus the small Node-version landmine that wastes the most time.
OpenClaw QuickStart (1): What This Thing Actually Is
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent gateway that bridges 20+ chat platforms into one runtime. This first piece explains what the project actually is, where it sits relative to ChatGPT and Claude, and which problems it …