You have OpenClaw running and have had a few conversations with it. Now you’re probably wondering how you can get past the demo stage and become something that improves your day. This is where integration comes in.
OpenClaw describes itself as AI that “does things for real,” and that only holds true when it connects to the tools you rely on. The platform has over 50 official integrations and a growing public skills registry called ClawHub.
1. Telegram
Telegraph is the largest messaging channel supported by OpenClaw and is highly recommended for first time users. Setup takes a few minutes: create a bot with the Telegraph’s @BotFather, copy the token to your OpenClaw configuration, and the agent starts responding to your chat.
What makes it work reliably is that Telegram has an official Bot API designed for automation. You don’t need a public server because OpenClaw can check Telegram for messages, so it works fine on a home machine behind a regular router.
It is also worth knowing why Telegram often agrees with WhatsApp. OpenClaw’s WhatsApp integration relies on Baileys, an unofficial library that reverse engineer the WhatsApp Web protocol. Users report session down after almost 14 days and real risk of account ban when running on server IP. Telegram gives you all that.
2. Looseness
Slack is a natural fit if your team already uses it for daily communication. The integration works with Slack’s standard app and OAuth flow, giving your OpenClaw agent access to channels and direct messages in your workspace.
Common uses include shortening threads, forwarding incoming requests, and sending automatic updates. The OpenClaw blog also notes that the platform supports individual sessions per channel, so your Slack agent can behave differently than a personal Telegram – useful if you want to keep work and personal situations separate.
Setup is more involved than Telegram. You’ll need to create a Slack app on their developer portal and configure OAuth permissions before connecting it to OpenClaw. Public documentation covers the process in detail, and the integration has active support for all OpenClaw platforms.
3. GitHub
The GitHub Assistant feature in ClawHub works through the gh CLI. Your agent can download pull request diffs, create review summaries, post comments, manage issues, and monitor CI build status, all through whichever messaging app you use.
A common setup described in the OpenClaw community: a developer pushes a PR, and his agent picks it up, reads the diff, and sends a summary of the update to Telegram or Slack within minutes. It doesn’t replace human review, but it handles the first pass and catches obvious problems before anyone else opens the file.
OpenClaw flags a security warning about this integration that should be taken seriously. Because the agent has direct access to your repositories, a compromised or poorly configured instance can expose confidential source code or allow unauthorized changes to your codebase. When connecting OpenClaw to work repositories, keep the scope of permissions as small as possible and never expose your gateway to the public Internet without authentication.
4. Vision
The Notion integration gives OpenClaw read and write access to your Notion pages and database through the Notion API. It’s available as an integrated capability in ClawHub and has become one of the most popular production combinations in the ecosystem.
Rather than manually updating your workspace, you can ask your agent to create pages, update database entries, or take action items from a meeting and put them in the right place. One community example has an agent that automatically creates a weekly schedule page every Monday, pulls the previous week’s incomplete tasks, and sends a summary via Telegram.
There are two main setup methods. You can install the integrated thought capability directly from ClawHub, or forward it to MCP’s Composio server, which handles OAuth for you. Composio claims to be compatible with SOC 2 Type 2. In any case, we would suggest that you integrate the integration into only the databases that your agent needs rather than opening up your entire workspace.
5. Domestic helper
Home Assistant integration is the most advanced smart home option available in OpenClaw. You have two options: a public add-on that uses OpenClaw directly within the Home Assistant OS, and a custom component that connects an existing OpenClaw instance to the Home Assistant setup via its API.
Your agent can manage any business presented through the Home Assistant pipeline. Natural language queries like “set the living room to movie mode” or “is the front door locked” become real commands that an agent can issue, sent from Telegram or WhatsApp.
Because the Home Assistant touches many sensitive devices and data, the setup warrants some care. Public documents recommend creating a dedicated OpenClaw Home Assistant user with limited permissions, keeping smart home devices on a separate network from your computers, and enabling two-factor authentication on any messaging channel that connects to the agent. The chat interface effectively becomes a home control channel, so it’s worth treating it as one.
Before you start installing
The rate at which the OpenClaw integration ecosystem is growing is truly impressive, but it poses one real danger. ClawHub is an open registry, meaning anyone can publish a skill, and not everything on it is reviewed.
Cisco’s AI security research team tested the third-party OpenClaw’s capability and found that it performed data exfiltration and injection quickly without the user’s knowledge. Our suggestion: start with the official combined skills and establish ClawHub entries, and read the SKILL.md file for anything new before installing it. The more OpenClaw connects to your tools, the more exposure there is to a poorly written skill.
