OpenClaw Complete Guide
A comprehensive, hands-on curriculum for running OpenClaw — from first concepts to multi-agent teams.
Eight structured lessons covering the full stack: the Agent concepts behind OpenClaw, architecture and memory, installation and model setup, Feishu integration, personality and skills, hardening for production, real-world use cases, and building multi-agent teams.
Curriculum
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Foundations: What Is OpenClaw and Why It Went Viral
Understand the six core concepts behind any AI agent — inference, memory, RAG, MCP, skills, and agents — and the story of how OpenClaw became a phenomenon.
Start lesson - 0210 min read
Architecture: Core Concepts and the Memory System
Inside OpenClaw: the runtime architecture, key abstractions, and the memory system that makes your agent feel like it actually knows you.
Start lesson - 0315 min read
Installation: Run OpenClaw and Connect Any LLM
Step-by-step install on macOS or Linux, the configuration wizard, model setup for Claude/GPT/Gemini, and OpenClaw's fallback strategy.
Start lesson - 0418 min read
Feishu Integration: Connect OpenClaw to Lark
End-to-end walkthrough: create a Feishu app, configure bot permissions, set up event subscriptions, and pair it with OpenClaw.
Start lesson - 0514 min read
Personality and Skills: SOUL.md and the Skill System
Give your OpenClaw an identity with SOUL.md, understand the core configuration files, and install your first skill from ClawHub.
Start lesson - 0616 min read
Security Guide: Hardening OpenClaw for Production
Ten security categories from network access to supply-chain risk, with a hardened SOUL.md template you can copy directly.
Start lesson - 0710 min read
Use Cases: 10 Real-World Plays for OpenClaw
Morning briefings, email triage, mobile DevOps, personal CRM, multi-agent marketing, knowledge-base Q&A, and more.
Start lesson - 0822 min read
Multi-Agent Teams: The Garden Playbook
Theory of multi-agent collaboration plus six concrete Garden agent recipes: image generation, news, investment, dev, community, and writing.
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About this guide
Originally authored by Conard Li, translated and curated by the SetupOpenClaw team. All content is kept in sync with the latest OpenClaw release and is free to read.
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