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OpenClaw capabilities across channels, routing, media, and UX.
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Features

Highlights

Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, WebChat, and more with a single Gateway. Official plugins add Matrix, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Twitch, Zalo, and dozens more with one install command. Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions. Images, audio, video, documents, and image/video generation. Windows Hub, browser Control UI, macOS menu bar app, and mobile nodes. iOS and Android nodes with pairing, voice/chat, and rich device commands.

Full list

Channels:

  • iMessage, Telegram, and WebChat ship with the core install; every other channel is an official plugin installed with openclaw plugins install @openclaw/<id> (or on demand during openclaw onboard / openclaw channels add)
  • Official plugin channels: Discord, Feishu, Google Chat, IRC, LINE, Matrix, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, QQ Bot, Raft, Signal, Slack, SMS, Synology Chat, Tlon, Twitch, Voice Call, WhatsApp, Zalo, and Zalo Personal
  • External plugin channels maintained outside the OpenClaw repo: WeChat, Yuanbao, and Zalo ClawBot
  • Group chat support with mention-based activation
  • DM safety with allowlists and pairing

Agent:

  • Embedded agent runtime with tool streaming
  • Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions per workspace or sender
  • Sessions: direct chats collapse into shared main; groups are isolated
  • Streaming and chunking for long responses

Auth and providers:

  • 35+ model providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and more)
  • Subscription auth via OAuth (e.g. OpenAI Codex)
  • Custom and self-hosted provider support (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible endpoint)

Media:

  • Images, audio, video, and documents in and out
  • Shared image generation and video generation capability surfaces
  • Voice note transcription
  • Text-to-speech with multiple providers

Apps and interfaces:

  • WebChat and browser Control UI
  • macOS menu bar companion app
  • iOS node with pairing, Canvas, camera, screen recording, location, and voice
  • Android node with pairing, chat, voice, Canvas, camera, and device commands

Tools and automation:

  • Browser automation, exec, sandboxing
  • Web search (Brave, DuckDuckGo, Exa, Firecrawl, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, MiniMax Search, Ollama Web Search, Perplexity, SearXNG, Tavily)
  • Cron jobs and heartbeat scheduling
  • Skills, plugins, and workflow pipelines (Lobster)
Opt-in features that have not yet shipped to the default surface. Agent runtime model and how runs are dispatched. Connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and more from one Gateway. Official and external plugins that extend OpenClaw.