Openclaw Orange Book

OpenClaw: The Complete Guide

The most comprehensive reference manual for OpenClaw — the open-source AI Agent framework that went from 0 to 330,000+ GitHub stars in under 5 months.

About This Book

This is the **OpenClaw Orange Paper** (v1.4.0), a one-stop reference guide covering everything you need to know about OpenClaw:

Part	Topics
Part 1: Meet OpenClaw	What it is, history, creator story, why it went viral
Part 2: Architecture	Gateway-Node-Channel architecture, memory system, workspace, sessions
Part 3: Deployment	Local install, Docker, Chinese cloud providers, Railway, Zeabur
Part 4: Channel Integration	20+ platforms: Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Slack, WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, QQ
Part 5: Skills System	How Skills work, ClawHub ecosystem, creating custom Skills, security
Part 6: Model Configuration	Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, GLM, Qwen, local models via Ollama
Part 7: Security & Cost	Security model, known incidents (CVE-2026-25253, ClawHavoc), cost control
Part 8: Ecosystem	Lobster culture, Moltbook, alternatives, comparison with Claude Code, China ecosystem
Appendix	FAQ, command cheat sheet, resource links

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Language	PDF	Pages
English	OpenClaw-The-Complete-Guide-v260411.pdf	~80
Chinese	OpenClaw-Complete-Guide-zh-v1.4.0.pdf	~80

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