Archived plugin

We built this plugin. Then we killed it.

Agent-to-agent harnesses burn tokens out of all proportion to what they hand back. We watched it happen to our own, so we stopped shipping it and said why.

See what we build insteadRead the archived repo

Why it stopped

The overhead outran the payoff.

Published work points the same way, though none of it is about this plugin specifically. Anthropic, whose harness this plugin extended, wrote up their own multi-agent system in June 2025 and said that "most coding tasks involve fewer truly parallelizable tasks than research, and LLM agents are not yet great at coordinating and delegating to other agents in real time." The same write-up puts multi-agent systems at about 15 times the tokens of a plain chat, and it reports a 90.2% improvement over a single agent on their research eval. The overhead is real, and so is the payoff on work that parallelizes. A plugin that walks one person through one install is not that work.

That applies to the paid OpenClaw setup session we used to sell as well. We stopped offering it for the same reason, and we would rather say so here than let it disappear without a word.

Still true
You can clone the repo and read the skills in it. Nothing has been taken down.
Not true anymore
No new platforms, and no fix when OpenClaw changes underneath it. We are not shipping another version that tracks OpenClaw releases.

This is our read on our own plugin, not a verdict on OpenClaw, which is somebody else's project. If you are here because your install is broken, we are not the ones to fix it anymore. OpenClaw's own docs are linked at the bottom of this page, and everything we wrote about the plugin is still below.

What it was

A Claude Code plugin for running OpenClaw.

OpenClaw is a local AI gateway that connects Claude to messaging apps like Slack, WhatsApp and Telegram. This plugin turned Claude Code into an OpenClaw expert: install, configure, troubleshoot and harden, through an onboarding wizard that interviewed you and wrote a deployment plan across 21 messaging platforms.

What the plugin shipped

  • Onboarding Wizard

    Interactive interview that generates a personalized deployment plan

  • 21 Channels

    Native and plugin-based support for Slack, Teams, Signal, Matrix, and more

  • Provider-Neutral Models

    Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama (free/local), xAI, Kilo Code, and more

Shipped

Interactive onboarding

Run /onboarding and the plugin interviews you about your use case, preferred channels, operating environment, security needs, and model provider preference. It then generates a personalized deployment journey.

Journey templates

  • Personal Assistant
  • Family / Team
  • Enterprise
  • Developer
  • Docker / K8s
  • Upgrader
  • Public Chatbot

Capabilities

  • Onboarding Wizard

    Interactive interview that asks about your goals, channels, environment, and security needs, then generates a personalized setup journey with specific milestones and commands.

  • Fresh Install

    Guided setup across macOS, Linux, Windows (WSL2), Docker, and Kubernetes with prerequisite validation.

  • Channel Setup

    Configuration for 21 platforms: Slack, WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, BlueBubbles, Signal, Google Chat, Teams, Matrix, Feishu/Lark, LINE, Mattermost, and more.

  • Troubleshooting

    Structured diagnostics with config validation, version checks, and platform-specific fixes.

  • Security Hardening

    15-point security checklist, CVE awareness, tools profiles, SecretRef secrets management, sandbox configuration.

  • Automation

    Cron jobs, Gmail webhooks, sub-agents, scheduled workflows.

  • Model Configuration

    Provider-neutral setup for Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama (local/free), Kilo Code, xAI/Grok, Moonshot, MiniMax, Vercel AI.

  • PDF Analysis

    Built-in PDF tool with configurable providers and size limits.

  • Docker / K8s

    Health endpoint configuration, disk budgets, container-optimized deployment.

  • Skills & Plugins

    ClawHub skill registry (3,200+ skills), official plugin management.

Supported messaging platforms

Native (built-in)

  • Slack
  • WhatsApp
  • Telegram
  • Discord
  • BlueBubbles (iMessage)
  • Signal
  • Google Chat
  • IRC
  • WebChat

Plugin-based

  • Feishu / Lark
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Matrix
  • LINE
  • Mattermost
  • Nostr
  • Nextcloud Talk
  • Synology Chat
  • Tlon
  • Twitch
  • Zalo
  • Zalo Personal

How it worked

01/openclaw-manager

Core management

Install, configure, troubleshoot, and harden your OpenClaw deployment. Covers channels, security, automation, models, and infrastructure.

02/onboarding

Onboarding wizard

Guided interview that builds a personalized deployment plan tailored to your use case, environment, and preferred channels.

Still installable

Install in one command

Install the plugin directly from GitHub and let Claude Code guide you through setup.

claude plugin install github:ClariSortAi/openclaw-manager-plugin

Requires OpenClaw v2026.3.1 at minimum.

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What we build instead

We stopped building bridges between other people's products and started building the context that goes into the model. Same idea, fewer moving parts, nothing that breaks when somebody else ships a release.

There is a market data store behind that work, Mica Intelligence, though there is no self-serve access to it yet.