alphaclaw

Platform: AlphaClaw currently targets Docker/Linux deployments. macOS local development is not yet supported.

Features

• Setup UI: Password-protected web dashboard for onboarding, configuration, and day-to-day management.
• Guided Onboarding: Step-by-step setup wizard — model selection, provider credentials, GitHub repo, channel pairing.
• Multi-Agent Management: Sidebar-driven agent navigation with create, rename, and delete flows. Per-agent overview cards, channel bindings, and URL-driven agent selection.
• Gateway Manager: Spawns, monitors, restarts, and proxies the OpenClaw gateway as a managed child process.
• Watchdog: Crash detection, crash-loop recovery, auto-repair (openclaw doctor --fix), Telegram/Discord/Slack notifications, and a live interactive terminal for monitoring gateway output directly from the browser.
• Channel Orchestration: Telegram, Discord, and Slack bot pairing with per-agent channel bindings, credential sync, and a guided wizard for splitting Telegram into multi-threaded topic groups as your usage grows.
• Google Workspace: OAuth integration for Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Tasks, Contacts, and Meet, plus guided Gmail watch setup with Google Pub/Sub topic, subscription, and push endpoint handling.
• Cron Jobs: Dedicated cron tab with job management, an interactive rolling calendar, run-history drilldowns, trend analytics, and per-run usage breakdowns.
• Nodes: Guided local-node setup for VPS deployments with per-node browser attach checks, reconnect commands, and routing/pairing controls.
• Webhooks: Named webhook endpoints with per-hook transform modules, request logging, payload inspection, editable delivery destinations, and OAuth callback support for third-party auth flows.
• File Explorer: Browser-based workspace explorer with file visibility, inline edits, diff view, and Git-aware sync for quick fixes without SSH.
• Prompt Hardening: Ships anti-drift bootstrap prompts (AGENTS.md, TOOLS.md) injected into your agent's system prompt on every message — enforcing safe practices, commit discipline, and change summaries out of the box.
• Git Sync: Automatic hourly commits of your OpenClaw workspace to GitHub with configurable cron schedule. Combined with prompt hardening, every agent action is version-controlled and auditable.
• Version Management: In-place updates for both AlphaClaw and OpenClaw with in-app release notes, changelog review, and one-click apply.
• Codex OAuth: Built-in PKCE flow for OpenAI Codex CLI model access.

Why AlphaClaw

• Zero to production in one deploy: Render/Railway templates ship a complete stack — no manual gateway setup.
• Self-healing: Watchdog detects crashes, enters repair mode, relaunches the gateway, and notifies you.
• Everything in the browser: No SSH, no config files to hand-edit, no CLI required after first deploy.
• Stays out of the way: AlphaClaw manages infrastructure; OpenClaw handles the AI.

No Lock-in. Eject Anytime.

AlphaClaw simply wraps OpenClaw, it's not a dependency. Remove AlphaClaw and your agent keeps running. Nothing proprietary, nothing to migrate.

Quick Start

Deploy on Render (recommended)

Render sponsors AlphaClaw. Use code RENDER-ALPHACLAW to redeem $50 in Render credits. The deployment is maintained in Render's official AlphaClaw template repository.

Other deployment options

Set SETUP_PASSWORD at deploy time and visit your deployment URL. The welcome wizard handles the rest.

Railway users: after deploying, upgrade to the Hobby plan and redeploy to ensure your service has at least 8 GB of RAM. The Trial plan's memory limit can cause out-of-memory crashes during normal operation.

Local / Docker

npm install @chrysb/alphaclaw
npx alphaclaw start

Or with Docker:

FROM node:22-slim
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git curl procps cron tini && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json ./
RUN npm install --omit=dev
ENV PATH="/app/node_modules/.bin:$PATH"
ENV ALPHACLAW_ROOT_DIR=/data
EXPOSE 3000
ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/tini", "--"]
CMD ["alphaclaw", "start"]

Setup UI

CLI

Architecture

graph TD
    subgraph AlphaClaw
        UI["Setup UI<br/><small>Preact + htm + Wouter</small>"]
        WD["Watchdog<br/><small>Crash recovery · Notifications</small>"]
        WH["Webhooks<br/><small>Transforms · Request logging</small>"]
        UI --> API
        WD --> API
        WH --> API
        API["Express Server<br/><small>JSON APIs · Auth · Proxy</small>"]
    end

    API -- "proxy" --> GW["OpenClaw Gateway<br/><small>Child process · 127.0.0.1:18789</small>"]
    GW --> DATA["ALPHACLAW_ROOT_DIR<br/><small>.openclaw/ · .env · logs · SQLite</small>"]

Watchdog

The built-in watchdog monitors gateway health and recovers from failures automatically.