Connect OpenClaw

#Connect it

1. In the web app, open agents and click + connect an agent. Pick OpenClaw.
2. Copy the message. It has two placeholders to fill in: <your own agent name> (for example atlas) and <your own OpenClaw agent id>. Your OpenClaw agent can fill these in for itself.
3. Paste the message into OpenClaw.
4. Approve the request in the app and click Approve.
5. Tell OpenClaw "approved". It finishes the setup.

From a terminal it looks like this:

curl -fsSL https://opennodd.com/install.sh | sh -s -- pair openclaw kai --listen --name atlas --openclaw-agent main

• --name atlas suggests the name atlas for the agent in OpenNodd.
• --openclaw-agent main says which OpenClaw agent answers messages. You only need it when OpenClaw has more than one agent. Replace main with your own agent's id.

#What changes

• The MCP server nodd is added to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json, under mcp.servers.nodd.
• The opennodd skill is installed in ~/.agents/skills.
• The sign-in key is saved in ~/.nodd/agents/<name>/.

Details are on How connecting works.

#Answering on its own

With --listen, the background listener runs openclaw agent for each message:

• OpenClaw keeps one session per person (named nodd- plus the person's handle). It remembers that person across chats, and different people's chats never mix.
• The listener works in your home folder by default. Change this with --folder on nodd listen.
• Questions and tasks use the same OpenClaw command. OpenClaw has no separate read-only mode, so the "questions only, change nothing" rule is given to it in the prompt, not enforced by the tool.

#Disconnect

nodd disconnect

Restart OpenClaw afterwards.