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OpenClaw hosting

Step-by-step guides for the things you set up yourself. If one of them does not work on your container, open a ticket — an engineer answers, not a bot.

OpenClaw hosting
Guide

First login: the gateway token and approving your devices

Where the token lives, why a new device has to be approved, and how to rotate or revoke a token when a laptop goes missing.

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Connect Telegram, WhatsApp or Slack

A bot token, an allowlist and one test message. The pairing defaults are strict on purpose — here is what each one does.

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Add or rotate a model provider key

Where the key goes, how to switch the primary model, and why the spend limit belongs on the provider's side rather than yours.

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Run the security audit and restore a backup

What `openclaw security audit` checks, which findings matter on a managed container, and how to roll the workspace back after an agent does the wrong thing.