Features

Highlights

<Columns> <Card title="Channels" icon="message-square" href="/channels"> Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, WebChat, and more with a single Gateway. </Card> <Card title="Plugins" icon="plug" href="/tools/plugin"> Official plugins add Matrix, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Twitch, Zalo, and dozens more with one install command. </Card> <Card title="Routing" icon="route" href="/concepts/multi-agent"> Multi-agent routing with isolated sessions. </Card> <Card title="Media" icon="image" href="/nodes/images"> Images, audio, video, documents, and image/video generation. </Card> <Card title="Apps and UI" icon="monitor" href="/platforms"> Windows Hub, browser Control UI, macOS menu bar app, and mobile nodes. </Card> <Card title="Mobile nodes" icon="smartphone" href="/nodes"> iOS and Android nodes with pairing, voice/chat, and rich device commands. </Card> </Columns>

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)

Related

<CardGroup cols={2}> <Card title="Experimental features" href="/concepts/experimental-features" icon="flask"> Opt-in features that have not yet shipped to the default surface. </Card> <Card title="Agent runtime" href="/concepts/agent" icon="robot"> Agent runtime model and how runs are dispatched. </Card> <Card title="Channels" href="/channels" icon="message-square"> Connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and more from one Gateway. </Card> <Card title="Plugins" href="/tools/plugin" icon="plug"> Official and external plugins that extend OpenClaw. </Card> </CardGroup>