AlphaClaw wraps OpenClaw in a password-protected web dashboard so you can deploy and run an agent without SSH or hand-edited config files. It handles onboarding, gateway supervision, crash recovery, Git-backed rollback, channel pairing, and multi-agent management from the browser, while OpenClaw itself handles the AI.
An Express server hosts the setup UI (Preact), the watchdog, and the webhook layer, and proxies to an OpenClaw gateway that it spawns as a managed child process on 127.0.0.1:18789. State lives under ALPHACLAWROOTDIR (the .openclaw/ tree, .env, logs, and SQLite). AlphaClaw currently targets Docker/Linux deployments, with Render and Railway templates and a macOS desktop download; removing it leaves the underlying OpenClaw agent running.
An optional OpenAI-compatible /v1 proxy (chat completions, responses, embeddings, and models) can be enabled on the same port, authenticated with the gateway token. AlphaClaw trades some of OpenClaw's default hardening for convenience: one setup password gates all access, channel pairings can be approved from the UI, the first CLI pairing is auto-approved, and webhook URLs accept query-string tokens.
Features
- Guided onboarding: a wizard covers model selection, provider credentials, GitHub repo, and channel pairing
- Multi-agent management: create, rename, and delete agents with per-agent overview cards and channel bindings
- Watchdog: periodic openclaw health checks, crash-loop detection (default 3 crashes in 300 s), auto-repair via openclaw doctor --fix, and Telegram, Discord, or Slack alerts
- Channel orchestration: Telegram, Discord, and Slack bot pairing, including a wizard for splitting Telegram into topic groups
- Google Workspace: OAuth for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Tasks, Contacts, and Meet, plus Gmail watch setup through Google Pub/Sub
- Cron and nodes: a cron tab with a rolling calendar and run history, and guided local-node setup for VPS deployments
- Webhooks: named endpoints with transform modules, request logging, and OAuth callback support
- File explorer and Git sync: browser-based workspace editing with diff view and hourly commits of the OpenClaw workspace to GitHub
- Prompt hardening: AGENTS.md and TOOLS.md bootstrap prompts injected into the system prompt on every message
- Providers: credentials and model selection for Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Voyage, Groq, and Deepgram, plus a Codex OAuth (PKCE) flow
- Remote MCP: REMOTEMCPURL registers an upstream MCP server in openclaw.json, optionally routed through a same-host scanning proxy
- Version management: in-place updates for AlphaClaw and OpenClaw with in-app release notes
