AlphaClaw is a management layer around OpenClaw. It runs the OpenClaw gateway as a managed child process and puts setup, monitoring, and day-to-day administration in a password-protected browser dashboard, so an agent deployment can be configured and repaired without SSH or hand-edited config files.
A setup wizard walks through model selection, provider credentials, a GitHub workspace repository, and channel pairing for Telegram, Discord, and Slack. From the same interface you can manage multiple agents, bind channels per agent, connect Google Workspace over OAuth, schedule cron jobs, define webhooks, and edit workspace files with a diff view.
A watchdog runs periodic health checks, detects crashes and crash loops, runs OpenClaw's own repair routine, relaunches the gateway, and sends alerts to Telegram, Discord, or Slack. The workspace is committed to GitHub on a schedule, and bootstrap prompts injected on every message push the agent toward commit discipline and change summaries, so agent actions stay version-controlled.
AlphaClaw targets Docker and Linux deployments, with deploy templates for Render and Railway and a macOS desktop download. It can also expose an OpenAI-compatible API in front of OpenClaw agents. It wraps OpenClaw rather than replacing it: removing AlphaClaw leaves the agent running. It trades some of OpenClaw's default hardening for convenience, such as a single setup password and one-click pairing approval in place of pairing codes.
Features
- Setup dashboard: password-protected web UI for onboarding, configuration, and daily management, with brute-force lockout
- Guided onboarding: wizard for model choice, provider credentials, GitHub workspace repository, and channel pairing
- Multi-agent management: create, rename, and delete agents, with per-agent overview cards and channel bindings
- Gateway manager: spawns, monitors, restarts, and proxies the OpenClaw gateway as a child process
- Watchdog: health checks, crash-loop detection, auto-repair, notifications, an incident log, and a live terminal in the browser
- Channel orchestration: Telegram, Discord, and Slack bot pairing, including splitting Telegram into multi-threaded topic groups
- Google Workspace: OAuth access to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Tasks, Contacts, and Meet, plus Gmail watch via Google Pub/Sub
- Cron and usage: cron job management with a rolling calendar and run history, plus per-session and per-agent token and cost breakdowns
- Webhooks: named endpoints with transform modules, request logging, payload inspection, and OAuth callback support
- Git sync and prompt hardening: scheduled workspace commits to GitHub, with anti-drift bootstrap prompts injected into each message
- OpenAI-compatible proxy: optional chat completions, responses, embeddings, and models endpoints routed to OpenClaw agents
- Version management: in-place updates for AlphaClaw and OpenClaw with release notes and changelog review
