You’ve got OpenClaw running and you’ve had a few conversations with it. Now you’re probably wondering how to get it past the demo stage and into something that actually improves your day. That’s where integrations come in.
OpenClaw describes itself as an AI that “actually does things,” and that only holds up if it connects to the tools you rely on. The platform has over 50 official integrations and a growing community skills registry called ClawHub.
1. Telegram
Telegram is the most mature messaging channel OpenClaw supports and the one most commonly recommended for first-time users. Setup takes a few minutes: create a bot through Telegram’s @BotFather, copy the token into your OpenClaw config, and the agent starts responding in your chat.
What makes it work reliably is that Telegram has a formal Bot API designed for automation. You don’t need a publicly exposed server because OpenClaw can poll Telegram for messages, so it runs fine on a home machine behind a regular router.
It’s also worth knowing why Telegram often gets the nod over WhatsApp. OpenClaw’s WhatsApp integration relies on Baileys, an unofficial library that reverse-engineers the WhatsApp Web protocol. Users report session drops after roughly 14 days and a real risk of account bans when running from a server IP. Telegram sidesteps all of that.
2. Slack
Slack is the natural fit if your team already uses it for day-to-day communication. The integration works through Slack’s standard app and OAuth flow, giving your OpenClaw agent access to channels and direct messages in your workspace.
Common uses include summarizing threads, routing incoming requests, and posting automated updates. The OpenClaw blog also notes that the platform supports isolated sessions per channel, so your Slack agent can behave differently from a personal Telegram one — useful if you want to keep work and personal contexts separate.
Setup is more involved than Telegram. You’ll need to create a Slack app in their developer portal and configure OAuth permissions before connecting it to OpenClaw. The community documentation covers the process in detail, and the integration has active support across OpenClaw’s forums.
3. GitHub
The GitHub assistant skill on ClawHub works through the gh CLI. Your agent can fetch pull request diffs, generate review summaries, post comments, manage issues, and monitor CI build status, all through whichever messaging app you’re using.
A common setup described in the OpenClaw community: a developer pushes a PR, and their agent picks it up, reads the diff, and sends a review summary to Telegram or Slack within minutes. It’s not a substitute for human review, but it handles the first pass and catches the obvious issues before anyone else opens the file.
OpenClaw flags a security warning with this integration that’s worth taking seriously. Because the agent has direct access to your repositories, a compromised or misconfigured instance could expose private source code or allow unauthorized changes to your codebase. If you’re connecting OpenClaw to work repositories, keep the scope of permissions as narrow as possible and never expose your gateway to the public internet without authentication.
4. Notion
The Notion integration gives OpenClaw read and write access to your Notion pages and databases through the Notion API. It’s available as a bundled skill on ClawHub and has become one of the most popular productivity integrations in the ecosystem.
Rather than manually updating your workspace, you can ask your agent to create pages, update database entries, or extract action items from a meeting and drop them into the right place. One community example has the agent auto-creating a weekly planning page every Monday, pulling in incomplete tasks from the previous week, and sending a summary over Telegram.
There are two main setup paths. You can install the bundled notion skill directly from ClawHub, or route through Composio’s MCP server, which handles OAuth on your behalf. Composio states it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. Either way, we’d suggest scoping the integration to only the databases your agent actually needs rather than opening up your entire workspace.
5. Home assistant
The Home Assistant integration is the most developed smart home option available for OpenClaw. You have two approaches: a community add-on that runs OpenClaw directly inside Home Assistant OS, and a custom component that connects an existing OpenClaw instance to your Home Assistant setup via its API.
Your agent can control any entity exposed through Home Assistant’s Assist pipeline. Natural language queries like “set the living room to movie mode” or “is the front door locked” become real commands the agent can execute, sent from Telegram or WhatsApp.
Because Home Assistant touches a lot of sensitive devices and data, the setup warrants some care. The community documentation recommends creating a dedicated Home Assistant user for OpenClaw with limited permissions, keeping smart home devices on a separate network from your computers, and enabling two-factor authentication on whichever messaging channel connects to the agent. The chat interface effectively becomes a home control channel, so it’s worth treating it like one.
Before you start installing
The rate at which OpenClaw’s integration ecosystem is growing is genuinely impressive, but it does create one real risk. ClawHub is an open registry, meaning anyone can publish a skill, and not everything in it has been reviewed.
Cisco’s AI security research team tested a third-party OpenClaw skill and found it performed data exfiltration and prompt injection without user awareness. Our suggestion: start with the bundled official skills and established ClawHub entries, and read the SKILL.md file of anything new before you install it. The more of your tools OpenClaw connects to, the more exposure a poorly written skill creates.
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