If there was discussion of DeepSeek last spring, before spring, the eyes of all the extremists and efficiency freaks were focused on an open source project。
It was first named Clawdbot, then changed to Moltbot and finally officially namedOpenClaw.
How hot is this thing
In just 20 days, the Star number on GitHub went up from hundreds to 175 K, like a rocket. And it's booming。
And it took Diffy about three years to do more than 100 K Star, and another six years
I even saw a friend joke that used to buy Mac Mini for productivity tools, and now Mac Mini for OpenClaw to find a home。
Of course I can't sit down as a blogger who's been messing with AI Agent。
I've spent the last few days studying OpenClaw, buying servers and setting up the environment, and I've been messing up OpenClaw's many games。
FEEL IT, I FEEL THE NEXT FORM OF AI, REALLY COMING。
Today, I'm going to break up and break up the practical experience of these days and talk to you about how OpenClaw works and how it can change our lives and our work。
The main elements are:
1. free-of-charge white-hot cloud server and full-time interface configuration of openclaw
2. HOW TO DEFINE ACCESS TO ANY API
3. Four practical games of OpenClaw
4. Recommendations for new entry。
I. INSTALLATION OF YOUR 7 X 24 HOUR AI ASSISTANT
All you need is a permanent computer
BUT I'D RECOMMEND A CLOUD SERVER. AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T CRASH, YOUR A.I.A.'S BEEN THERE。
Many people get bigger when they hear deployments, servers, command lines。
In fact, the big plant is moving very fast, and now using OpenClaw is much lower than you think it is。
Some friends had asked before that there was a free cloud server for free。
emmm, not before, but recently, all the cloud dealers have been rolled up
First of all, openclaw's one-key deployment, and the 2H4G server is only 0.01% per month
PS: 2H4G CONFIGURATION AT LEAST 100/MONTH AVERAGE PRICE
https://cloud.baidu.com/product/BCC/moltbot.html
Get into their network and click "Short deployment" on the map
Note that if there is a need to link to foreign services, the geographical option is Hong Kong
Once it's operational, run the console
If you choose your territory, you choose Hong Kong
found the example of a newly created server that can "remote" and enter the password that has just been set, make a ssh connection, configure and start openclaw by command line
If White, recommend point to server details page, apply management-> model configuration
WE NEED TO START WITH A "ONE-BUTTON OPEN" LARGE-SCALE MODEL, CLOUD AIDES, AND A BUSINESS FOR OOS
To be honest, it's nice to have this button open, otherwise these cloud platforms are hard to find。
Then we can do "models" on the page, "messages" and "skills" on the page
The model here is for the value of DeepSeek V3.2, for the capacity of Agent, for Kimi-K2
After the configuration, click on the app
THE NEWS PLATFORM CURRENTLY SUPPORTS FLYING BOOKS, MICRO, NAILS, QQ
Access to Flying Book requires access to App ID and App Secret on the Open Flying Book platform
It has a very detailed reference document, and it doesn't go too far
Once the information platform is configured, you have to click on it
If you want to configure other Skills, you can empty the input box and enter Skills yourself。
More Skills went to openclaw online to get:
https://clawhub.ai/skills
After Skills' configuration, remember to apply
It's a little hard at the moment to set up a single click application for each configuration instead of all. This is also flexible if only to modify a single block。
If you want to access OpenClaw's web page, you can click to get a website address
Copy the address of the site, open in the browser
you can access your openclaw via the web interface
Skills can also be configured directly in Skills on the web page
There are many useful Skills:
https://cloud.baidu.com/doc/qianfan/s/Mmlda41a2
I think the simplest way to throw Skills' site, or Skills' name, into it, and get an openclaw to help me install Skills
Part of Skills needs apicey
https://console.bce.baidu.com/iam/#/iam/apikey/list
HOW DO YOU CUSTOMISE THE MODEL API
Most of the questions are about how to access any of the channels
It's not that difficult. We need to change the configuration
Profile location:
/ root/.openclaw/openclaw.json
json configuration to change:
'models ': {)
"mode": "merge.",
'providers ': {)
"The name of the channel (in any case, in English): {
"baseUrl": "https://xxxxxxxxxx/v1",
“ApiKey”: “Please enter your third-party apikey.”,
"api": "openai-complications",
“models”:
{
"id": "model name",
"name": "model aliases (in any case)"
}
]
}
}
},
"agents": {
'defaults ': {)
'model ': {
“primary”: “channel/model name”
},
'models ': {)
Channel Name/ Model Name: {
“alias”: “affixions”
}
}
PS: Just focus on the configurations in models and atgents。
The Json with the public number copy may be in a disarray format and can be copied to AI so that AI can output a copy for you
As long as they are compatible with OpenAI API models, they can be accessed in this way。
Four practical games
Next, I'm going to show you a few very practical scenes in my experience。
Scene I: A fully automated morning reporter
Does it take people half an hour every morning to do news? Microblogging, technology and media, and industry dynamics are obfuscated。
You can set a timer for OpenClaw directly
For example, at 9:00 a.m. a day, I'll be given the hottest five-AI consultations of the day, and I'll have 100 degrees to search for skill。
At 2:00 in the morning, let it be delivered to me by 8:00
It's also very useful, especially when this robot can fly into the book collection and actually operate the community。
If the flight book is timed to no avail, the order is as follows:
1. Whether the time zone of the cloud server is Asia/Shanghai, in short, is Beijing time
2. the failure of the flyer ' s book may be that robotic powers are inadequate and that what is lacking is generally openclaw ' s offer
3. An openclaw is required to record the flying book of the subject。
Scene 2: Hotspot Information Collection, one-click graphics
This one might be more useful to the schoolmates
The 100-degree search, the 100-degree encyclopedia, the 100-degree academic Skyll, and the 100-degree smart PPT Skyll are used to generate PPT。
PPT DOWNLOADS THIS:
The entire PPT 27 pages, the text is so thick, the layout is so nice, it's so good, it's on a key phone, it's just a direct voice, and it's easy to get AAA's assistant out there。
Scenario III: The untidy Coding Partners
as a former programmer, i feel that the most painful thing about writing codes is not the core logic, but the cumbersome configurations, the bugs and so on
By a Skills called Coding Age, OpenClaw can directly call on the CLI-style AI programming tool for Claude Code and Codex。
I don't know how Claude Code was installed
It's a lot better than I did myself
Then there's the blow-out demand, and OpenClaw helps me manipulate Claude Code
It can even send me the code files that were developed
Download it down and double-click it to have fun
That's how you can throw complex demands into OpenClaw, so that it can manipulate Claude Code to develop
well, think about it all, but token's probably gonna explode, but buying each other's coding plan would be great, and the cost could be controlled。
Scene IV: More Agent Brainstorm
OpenClaw also has a very good ability, a double Agent. There's a lot of games in this one, like the Agent team
It's really nice to be a brainstorm, like I've got it all over Agent, playing Da Vinci, Miyazaki, Jobs, Socrates, Kevin Kelly
THE THEME WAS: HOW SHOULD A NEW COMPANY IN THE AI ERA BE RECRUITED, HOW SHOULD IT CONTROL COSTS AND HOW CAN IT INCREASE EFFICIENCY
I've seen this mission. It took me seven minutes to run
finally, a detailed markdown document (almost 400 lines of content) was produced, documenting in detail the process of three rounds of brainstorms, and the advice given by these “big men”。
PERSONALLY, I LIKE THIS AAI ASSISTANT WHO CAN DO HIS OWN DEY, BECAUSE IT HAS UNLIMITED CEILINGS。
OpenClaw, why are you so flexible
The core is in three points: Skills, MCP and system-level privileges。
1. Skills: three arms for AI
OpenClaw itself is just a brain. But it has a Skills community like App Store。
The community has now contributed nearly 2,000 Skills。
YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THE PODCAST? LOADING A PODCAST TO GENERATE A PLUGIN AND THROWING A LINK TO AN ARTICLE THAT AUTOMATICALLY TRANSFERS YOU TO MP3。
You want to control the smart house? Put a HomeAssistant plugin that you can turn off the lights and air-conditioning。
You want some takeout? There's even an aPI that turned against the delivery platform, so that Agent can help you check for the delivery。
This means that its capacity boundaries depend entirely on the imagination of the community。
MCP AGREEMENT: A MASTER ' S POINT
MCP (mode context protocol) is a standard introduced by Anthropic to allow large models to standardized access to external data。
OpenClaw also perfectly supports MCP。
It's like giving AI the standard of a plug. Through MCP, you can easily connect the Google calendar, Gmail, Notion and even your company's internal database to OpenClaw。
IT CAN ALSO BE CONNECTED TO A WIDE VARIETY OF APPLICATIONS THROUGH THE FULL-SCALE ECOLOGY OF THE 100 THOUSAND SAILS OF MCP SQUARE
3. System-level authority: decentralization
It's actually a double-edged sword and OpenClaw's most powerful and charming place。
It's not like the Web version of AI is stuck in a sandbox. It has access to your hard disk files and execution of Shell orders。
It is because of this permission that it will help you to organize the desktop, rename the files in bulk, deploy the environment and even monitor the screen。
Of course, it also poses security risks. So I said at the beginning of the article that it would be best to operate with a stand-alone server or a virtual machine to isolate the risks。
It's a new one
Seeing here, maybe a lot of friends have already tried. I'm here to advise you on a few pits。
1. On hardware
Don't get scared off the Internet to buy Mac Mini, or be blind。
IF YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO TASTE IT, IT'S ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE A SIMPLE CHAT, A SEARCH, A TIME JOB, A NORMAL COMPUTER, OR A 2-NUCLEO 4G CLOUD SERVER FOR A MONTH FOR FREE。
It's not too late for you to think about upgrading the hardware when you really think it's working。
2. On networks
Because many of the Skylls and applications supported by OpenClaw are foreign, the cyber environment is a problem that must be addressed. A friend with this requirement can choose Hong Kong from the server area when using 100 degrees of smart cloud deployment。
If you only play domestic ecology, you can get access to flying books or nails as the front end, and back-end models can try to get access to good domestic models like Mini Max or GLM or Kimi。
Skills and MCP can choose a hundred-thousand-thousand ecology
In addition, OpenClaw is very consuming token, and Coding Plan is a better option。
On security
Three times:
Don't run naked on the main machine with important privacy data
Don't run naked on the main machine with important privacy data
Don't run naked on the main machine with important privacy data
Give it an independent VPS, or open a Docker container on NAS at home。
AFTER ALL, IT HAS THE POWER TO EXECUTE ORDERS, AND IT'S TOO LATE TO CRY IN CASE THE AI BLOWS OR GETS HACKED。
at last
These days at the OpenClaw test, I've often had a feeling。
Look at the characters that automatically jump on the screen, look at the tasks that are done, and I realize that we're going through a huge change in human interaction。
IN THE LAST FEW DECADES, THE CORE OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) IS THE GUI. WE NEED TO LEARN HOW TO CLICK ON THE ICON, HOW TO USE THE MENU, HOW TO MANAGE THE FILE。
But the future operating systems will no longer be needed。
OpenClaw shows another possibility: the natural language is the operating system。
You don't need to know which folder the file is in, you just have to tell Agent: Help me find the contract last month。
You don't need to know how to use Photoshop to get watermarks, you just have to tell Agent: Clean this up。
The properties of the tool are slowly being diluted and those of the partner are being enhanced。
What does that mean for us ordinary people
It means leverage。
In the past, a person who operated a public sign, maintained a website and developed an App might have had three or six arms and been half exhausted。
Now, as long as you use it well, you can have a 24-hour team of Saber。
OpenClaw is still in a fast-paced trajectories and is constantly reoriented。
It's definitely not perfect, there's a lot of bugs, and sometimes it's a little stupid。
But it represents an irreversible trend。
Whether you're a programmer, a mediaman, or a regular job leader, I strongly recommend that you try it, even if you deploy a simplest version。
Feel that when you sleep, someone's working for you。