OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI assistant. This article analyzes its design through documentation and LLM prompt tracing. It demonstrates prompt inspection with Home Assistant integration, showing how skills are discovered and loaded, and how agents securely handle sensitive information via environment variables instead of exposing them to the LLM.

This article explains how to self-host an OpenClaw AI assistant using a Matrix chat channel. It covers setting up a Matrix server, installing and troubleshooting the OpenClaw Matrix plugin, configuring access policies, and enabling secure, private AI interactions without relying on third-party messaging platforms.