Self-hosting OpenClaw: a money trap and two silent failures
I run OpenClaw on a Hetzner CAX ARM VPS. It talks to me over Signal and does a morning press review. Three gotchas on that box are worth writing down:…
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Stop sending every AI coding request to the expensive model
AI coding tools are powerful. But they’re also wasteful. A tiny helper-function question does not need Claude Sonnet. A huge architecture review proba…
Openclaw on the cloud, dos and don'ts
Running OpenClaw or Hermes in the Cloud (No Mac Mini Required) If this is your first time setting up an always-on AI agent like OpenClaw or Hermes , y…
Turning OpenClaw Governance Into an Operating Layer
In my last article, I wrote about a practical lesson from end-to-end testing inside OpenClaw: proving that a command exists is not the same thing as p…
5 Ways My Personal AI Agent Surprised Me After 3 Months of Daily Use
I've been working with AI agents daily for the past few months – building them, testing them, using them for everything from email triage to meeting p…
I found the r/openclaw thread with 27 upvotes where someone gave an agent a real iPhone and now I can’t stop thinking about it
A few days ago I found this r/openclaw post: “I gave my agent my actual iphone..” It had 27 upvotes and 16 comments. That low number is exactly why I …
Containers & Agents with Docker & OpenClaw
You have a fundamental problem in software: your code works on your machine, but breaks on someone else's. Different operating systems. Different vers…
Qwen Is Not Yet Ready to Power Local OpenClaw Deployments
Three weeks ago I ran a model showdown — twelve tasks, five models, one RTX 5090 — and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B won. 85.3 weighted score, 206 tok/s, fits in VR…
Stop Editing JSON by Hand
How ClawMaster helps you set up OpenClaw, manage Skills, and use PowerMem — without living in config files TL;DR: ClawMaster is an open-source OpenCla…
Prime vs (hermes+ openclaw)
This is a submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge What I Built Prime is an open-source, ultra-lightweight desktop orchestrator and micro-kernel envi…
Agentic LLM Inference Parameters Reference for Qwen and Gemma
This page is a practical reference for agentic LLM inference tuning (temperature, top_p, top_k, penalties, and how they interact in multi-step and too…
OpenClaw: 13 Errors, $1.50/Month, and an AI Team That Doesn’t Need the Cloud
I run a team of AI agents on a Mac I bought in 2022. They handle my Slack, run research, draft content, monitor infrastructure, and spawn sub-agents f…
So Many OpenClaw Wrappers, So Little Time — I Built a Directory for That
If you've been following the OpenClaw ecosystem, you already know the problem: there are a lot of ways to run it. Managed cloud? Self-hosted? Desktop …
Running a Personal AI Assistant for $0 - Part 1 - Architecture
Introduction A productivity tool that promised to change everything, charged monthly, and quietly became background noise. AI assistants are going the…
I Stress-Tested 3 AI Agent Gateways (WorldClaw, B.AI, TokenMix.ai). Only One Was Ready for Production.
Three platforms launched between Q4 2025 and Q2 2026 want to be the default gateway for autonomous AI agents: WorldClaw (Trump-family WLFI ecosystem, …
Хотел упростить мониторинг проектов и в отпуск — пришлось обучать свой LLM
Я работаю по ИП, поэтому не только пишу код, но и поддерживаю как DevOps свои проекты у заказчика. Эта история началась банально: я собирался в отпуск…
Congrats to the OpenClaw Challenge Winners!
The results are in! We are thrilled to announce the winners of the OpenClaw Challenge . Over the past few weeks, you've been building, writing, and sh…
OpenClaw Monitor: Real-Time AI Agent Activity Dashboard
What is OpenClaw Monitor? OpenClaw Monitor is a real-time monitoring dashboard for OpenClaw - a cross-platform AI agent framework. It visualizes your …
How a Simple HTTP Request Opened the Door to a Reverse Shell: Exposed OpenFang Instances
How an allowed curl request became a full reverse shell in an exposed Openclaw instance. A single HTTP request with curl , pointed at a small HTTP ser…
I thought multi-agent meant more prompts until I saw 3 ways OpenClaw users are actually splitting the work
I went into a bunch of OpenClaw discussions expecting the usual advice about subagents: better prompts, cleaner folders, maybe some heroic config. Wha…