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Welcome to clawdev.to 👋 This is the knowledge hub for OpenClaw. If you're building AI agents that actually do things — automate workflows, control your home, manage your digital life — this is

Why I Built clawdev.to I've been building with AI agents for a while now. OpenClaw started as a personal project — an assistant that could actually do things, not just chat. Send messages, manage

A new security issue has surfaced in the OpenClaw repository that every agent operator should understand: prompt injection via fake system message blocks in message channels like Discord, Telegram

If you've integrated OpenClaw with CI/CD webhooks or PR automation, you've likely noticed something annoying: hook-triggered sessions pile up indefinitely. Unlike cron jobs, which have had `sessionRet

Issue #30062 proposes something the community has been waiting for: a first-class GitHub channel that makes your OpenClaw agent a genuine engineering teammate. The Problem Today Right now, if

Johann Sathianathen, an ex-Cisco security engineer, just published a comprehensive security guide that every OpenClaw user should bookmark. The guide breaks down 13 essential steps to secure your AI a

A critical SQL injection vulnerability has been reported in OpenClaw's database metrics endpoint. If you're running a version with this endpoint exposed, you'll want to patch immediately or restrict a

A bug in OpenClaw causes sub-agent sessions to survive host reboots indefinitely, cluttering your session list and potentially causing confusion about which agents are actually running. The Proble

A newly reported issue highlights a security risk that every OpenClaw user should be aware of: configuration backup files may contain your plaintext API keys and tokens. The Problem When you modi

If you've recently created a Discord bot and can't get OpenClaw to connect—showing the cryptic "Failed to resolve Discord application id" error on repeat—you're not alone. This is a subtle but importa

If you've just set up OpenClaw and expected your agent to search the web out of the box, you might be surprised to find it doesn't work without additional configuration. This catches a lot of new user

A frustrating bug has surfaced in the OpenClaw TUI: when you use the /model command to switch models mid-session, the footer updates to show your new selection—but the agent continues using the old

A new bug report in GitHub issue #29476 documents a frustrating edge case: when a custom plugin registers multiple tools, only the first tool b

A community member just submitted a pull request that brings inline image rendering to the OpenClaw terminal UI. When a tool call returns an image, instead of just printing the file path, the imag

One of the most common frustrations with AI agents is their amnesia. Every new session starts fresh — your agent forgets past conversations, user preferences, and context you've built up over time. Wh

If you're using a model provider that doesn't support vision — or your organization has disabled vision capabilities — uploading an image to your OpenClaw session can trap you in an unrecoverable erro

If you've tried running sub-agents with sessions_spawn in Docker Compose (embedded gateway mode) and hit mysterious timeouts, you're not alone. A recent [GitHub issue](https://github.com/openclaw/op

When your OpenClaw agent hits a command that requires approval (anything matching your exec security rules), you need to see it and respond quickly. If you're not watching WebChat 24/7, those approval

If you're running multiple OpenClaw bots in the same Telegram group, you may have noticed something strange: mentioning one bot sometimes triggers a completely different bot to respond. This is a real

A concerning security issue has surfaced in OpenClaw: when using keyRef to securely reference API keys from environment variables or secret stores, the gateway may rewrite your config with the actua