How-Tos & Practical Guides

OpenAI just made running autonomous agents through OpenClaw dramatically more accessible. If you already pay for ChatGPT Plus ($20/month), you can now sign into OpenClaw with your ChatGPT account and run GPT-5.4-powered agents for just $3 more per month — $23 total. This guide walks you through what you need, how the setup works, and what to expect once you’re running. What You Need Before you start, make sure you have: ...

South Korean tech giant Kakao just made its open AI platform significantly more useful for OpenClaw users. As of May 2, 2026, PlayMCP — Kakao’s Model Context Protocol-based open platform — officially supports integration with OpenClaw, joining Claude and ChatGPT as supported AI agents. This means your local OpenClaw instance can now directly access KakaoTalk, Tok Calendar, Kakao Map, Gift Sending, Melon, and over 200 third-party MCP servers registered on PlayMCP. ...

OpenClaw v2026.5.2 dropped today, and it’s the kind of release that actually earns the “less drama, more uptime” tagline. Grok 4.3 is now bundled as the default xAI chat model, over 200 fixes landed across plugins and gateway performance, and the community’s post-upgrade headaches finally have an official fix command. This guide walks you through the upgrade and explains what’s new. What’s In This Release The headline addition is xAI Grok 4.3 as the new default model for the xAI chat integration. Compared to its predecessor, Grok 4.3 brings a 1-million-token context window, improved tool-use reliability, and more competitive pricing — the kind of improvements that compound fast when you’re running agents that do real work. ...

A high-severity security vulnerability has been confirmed in OpenClaw versions prior to v2026.4.8. CVE-2026-42422 allows an authenticated low-privilege attacker to mint tokens for unapproved roles and scopes — effectively escalating their own permissions without authorization. CVSS v3.1 Score: 8.8 (High) Attack Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Low Privileges Required: Low (authenticated) User Interaction: None Scope: Unchanged Confidentiality / Integrity / Availability: High / High / High This is not a theoretical risk. A CVSS 8.8 with no user interaction required means any authenticated user on an unpatched instance can exploit this. If you haven’t upgraded yet, this is your action item. ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on May 2, 2026 that users can now log in to OpenClaw using their existing ChatGPT accounts — and access their ChatGPT Plus ($20/month) or Pro ($200/month) subscription directly through the platform. No separate API keys. No usage billing per token. Just your subscription, working on OpenClaw. Altman’s post on X ended with: “happy lobstering!” — a nod to OpenClaw’s community. This is a meaningful integration that changes the economics of OpenClaw usage for millions of ChatGPT subscribers. ...

On May 1, 2026, Google briefly published a 1.13 GB app to the Play Store under the package name com.google.research.air.cosmo. It was pulled within hours — but not before the AI community had downloaded it, dissected it, and shared what they found. The result is one of the most detailed accidental previews of a major AI product we’ve seen. This is COSMO: Google’s next-generation on-device AI assistant. Here’s how its architecture actually works. ...

Uber’s CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga confirmed in an interview with The Information what many engineering leaders have been quietly worried about: his company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. The culprit? Claude Code adoption that surged from 32% to 84% of engineers between deployment and today. Monthly API costs per engineer now run between $500 and $2,000. 95% of Uber’s engineers use AI tools monthly. 70% of committed code is AI-generated. AI costs are up 6x since 2024. ...

Okta’s Threat Intelligence team just published research that every OpenClaw user needs to read. Their report, “Phishing the Agent: Why AI Guardrails Aren’t Enough,” documents specific multi-step prompt injection attacks against OpenClaw that successfully extract OAuth tokens, API keys, Wi-Fi passwords, and macOS Keychain credentials — even against Claude Sonnet 4.6’s built-in safety guardrails. This isn’t theoretical. The exploit chains are documented with verbatim methodology. If you’re running OpenClaw in any environment with sensitive credentials accessible, the threat is real and the mitigations are available. Here’s what you need to know. ...

NVIDIA’s NemoClaw turns OpenClaw into something your enterprise security and compliance teams can actually say yes to. This guide walks through the full deployment process—from prerequisites to running your first sandboxed agent—using the official NemoClaw stack. Prerequisites Before you begin, you’ll need: A supported deployment target: NVIDIA DGX Spark or DGX Station (recommended), or any Linux host with NVIDIA drivers installed Root/sudo access on the target system An NVIDIA developer account (free tier works for NemoClaw) OpenClaw v2026.4.x or later installed (NemoClaw wraps OpenClaw, not replaces it) Network access to registry.nemoclaw.nvidia.com during installation Step 1: One-Command Install NemoClaw’s installation script handles dependency resolution, Docker/container runtime setup, and initial configuration: ...

OpenClaw v2026.4.29 introduces NVIDIA as a first-class provider, giving you native access to Nemotron, Kimi, MiniMax, GLM, and other models from NVIDIA’s inference catalog. This guide walks you through getting those models working in your OpenClaw agent setup. Prerequisites OpenClaw v2026.4.29 or later (update via your standard update channel) An NVIDIA NGC API key (free tier available at build.nvidia.com) OpenClaw running in a configuration where you can edit provider settings Step 1: Update to v2026.4.29 If you haven’t already, pull the latest OpenClaw version: ...