Highlights
Channels
Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, WebChat, and more with a single Gateway.
Plugins
Official plugins add Matrix, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Twitch, Zalo, and dozens more with one install command.
Routing
Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions.
Media
Images, audio, video, documents, and image/video generation.
Apps and UI
Windows Hub, browser Control UI, macOS menu bar app, and mobile nodes.
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 duringopenclaw 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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)
Related
Experimental features
Opt-in features that have not yet shipped to the default surface.
Agent runtime
Agent runtime model and how runs are dispatched.
Channels
Connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and more from one Gateway.
Plugins
Official and external plugins that extend OpenClaw.