Use cases
What people actually build.
openclawOS isn't a chatbot. Pi has real tools — shell, browser, file system, vector memory — and bindings turn any messenger into a control surface. Here's what that looks like in practice.
- Engineering
PR review and code triage from a chat app
Have Pi review pull requests, summarise diffs and surface regressions, then deliver the result to Telegram or Slack — no laptop required.
Read the walkthrough → - Home & IoT
Conversational home and IoT automation
Trigger devices, query dashboards and kick off jobs by messaging Pi — real tool use over WhatsApp or iMessage instead of brittle IFTTT chains.
Read the walkthrough → - Teams
A private AI agent inside a group chat
Run Pi inside a Signal or Discord group for standups, summaries and action items — end-to-end encrypted by the channel, self-hosted by you.
Read the walkthrough → - Research
Long-running research with persistent memory
Forward a paper or a link and get a structured summary back — with sessions and vector memory that survive reboots via sqlite-vec.
Read the walkthrough → - Operations
Customer and team ops without another SaaS
Route messages, escalate to a human and file issues from one agent binding — self-hosted, so customer conversations never leave your stack.
Read the walkthrough → - Personal
A personal life-OS in your messenger
Let Pi triage your health stats, calendar and notes into a single morning brief on iMessage — one agent following you across channels.
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Building something else? See the channel catalogue, the architecture, or the glossary. openclawOS is a Neul Labs project.
Welcome to the lobster tank.
Star the repo, join Discord, ship your first agent before lunch.