OpenClaw by Ken Tannenbaum
OpenClaw became one of the defining frameworks of the agentic AI era by solving a simple problem: how do you run powerful AI agents without handing everything to a closed vendor platform? Built as an open-source, self-hosted, messaging-app-native framework, OpenClaw quickly evolved from an enthusiast project into a widely deployed platform for personal automation, developer workflows, and team-based AI operations. Today it powers everything from inbox automation and developer assistants to shared agents connected to business systems. OpenClaw: Agentic AI for Everyday Work is the complete guide to deploying, operating, and securing OpenClaw in the real world. It explains how the framework works, how to build useful agents, and how to avoid the operational and security failures that emerged during the early agentic AI boom. Inside, you will learn the core principles behind modern AI agents: memory, context management, tools, messaging interfaces, and autonomous workflows. The book explains why OpenClaw adopted messaging platforms instead of a UI, and how that design shaped the ecosystem. Step-by-step chapters walk through installation, deployment architecture, model configuration, and channel integration across Slack, Discord, Gmail, iMessage, and custom integrations. Additional sections cover skills, sessions, memory systems, ClawHub packages, plugin development, SDK usage, compatibility layers, packaging, and distribution. A major focus of the book is operational discipline and security. Dedicated chapters explore AGENTS.md policy enforcement, sandboxing, allowlists, identity boundaries, observability, OTEL v2 telemetry, and the governance ecosystem that emerged after the influential "Agents of Chaos" research paper exposed common agent failure modes. The book analyzes all eleven documented "Agents of Chaos" failure patterns in detail: what causes them, how they appear in production, and the controls serious deployments use to mitigate them. It also covers the surrounding ecosystem, including NemoClaw, AxonFlow, MoatGuard, and related governance and monitoring tools. Additional chapters address multi-user deployments, productivity integrations, browser automation, developer tooling, and voice workflows. Included are configuration references, plugin SDK quick references, reusable AGENTS.md policy templates, and a defensive taxonomy for agentic AI deployments. Whether you are experimenting with agents, building production automations, or governing enterprise AI systems, this book provides the operational layer ignored.
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| ISBN 13 | 9798950533136 |
| Title | OpenClaw |
| Author | Ken Tannenbaum |
| Series | Ai For Everyone |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Finnoybu Press |
| Year published | 2026-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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