# OpenClaw Study > Independent, source-backed operator guidance for OpenClaw. This site is not affiliated with OpenClaw. OpenClaw Study provides static guides and browser-only tools for installation, configuration, diagnostics, security, skills, recipes, and cost planning. Pasted configuration and diagnostics are processed locally and are not uploaded. ## Verification snapshot - Verified: 2026-08-24 - Official docs commit: ca6fea301ba94144796fed67035dd97364679da4 - Package metadata observed: 2026.8.1 - Methodology: https://openclawstudy.com/methodology - Source registry: https://openclawstudy.com/sources ## Pages - [Home](https://openclawstudy.com/): Outcome-based OpenClaw operator lab. - [Install OpenClaw with a verified setup plan](https://openclawstudy.com/install): Choose Windows, macOS, Ubuntu/Linux, or Docker and get sourced OpenClaw install commands with verification and rollback guidance. - [OpenClaw configuration studio](https://openclawstudy.com/config): Build, import, explain, redact, and validate an OpenClaw JSON5 configuration entirely in your browser. - [Explain OpenClaw doctor output safely](https://openclawstudy.com/doctor): Parse supported OpenClaw doctor JSON or select an exact error to get ordered, source-backed recovery steps without uploading logs. - [OpenClaw security audit and hardening checkup](https://openclawstudy.com/security): Understand official OpenClaw security audit findings and review bounded configuration risks without claiming security certification. - [OpenClaw skills: install, trust, and operate them safely](https://openclawstudy.com/skills): Understand OpenClaw skills, precedence, dependencies, ClawHub provenance, safe installation, verification, and updates. - [Create an OpenClaw SKILL.md with safer triggers](https://openclawstudy.com/skills/create): Build a focused OpenClaw SKILL.md draft with trigger boundaries, dependency declarations, safety checks, and test cases. - [Estimate OpenClaw cost per month](https://openclawstudy.com/cost): Model OpenClaw token, heartbeat, fallback, cache, subagent, hosting, and fixed costs with editable assumptions and visible formulas. - [Tested OpenClaw recipes](https://openclawstudy.com/recipes): Reproducible OpenClaw workflows with prerequisites, permissions, expected output, verification, failure handling, rollback, and version status. - [Set up an OpenClaw Telegram assistant](https://openclawstudy.com/recipes/telegram-assistant): A bounded Telegram bot workflow with token handling, pairing or allowlists, group controls, verification, troubleshooting, and rollback. - [Build an OpenClaw morning briefing](https://openclawstudy.com/recipes/morning-briefing): Design a scheduled OpenClaw briefing with explicit sources, delivery target, authority, cost, failure handling, verification, and rollback. - [Install OpenClaw on Windows 11 or Windows 10](https://openclawstudy.com/install/windows): Choose Windows Hub, native PowerShell, or WSL2 for OpenClaw, then verify the CLI, Gateway, pairing, and startup path. - [Install OpenClaw on macOS and Mac mini](https://openclawstudy.com/install/macos): Install OpenClaw on a Mac or Mac mini, choose the menu bar app or CLI Gateway, grant only needed permissions, and verify startup. - [Install OpenClaw on Ubuntu or Linux](https://openclawstudy.com/install/ubuntu): Install OpenClaw on Ubuntu/Linux, verify the supported Node runtime, set up a systemd user service, and keep the Gateway private. - [Install OpenClaw with Docker Compose](https://openclawstudy.com/install/docker): Run OpenClaw in Docker with persistent state, correct host-provider networking, authenticated health checks, and a rollback plan. - [Update OpenClaw safely](https://openclawstudy.com/guides/update-openclaw): Check the active OpenClaw channel, preview an update, back up state, update the package or checkout, verify the restarted Gateway, and roll back deliberately. - [Uninstall OpenClaw completely—or keep the parts you need](https://openclawstudy.com/guides/uninstall-openclaw): Preview OpenClaw uninstall scopes, back up state, stop the Gateway safely, remove selected service/state/workspace/app data, and uninstall the CLI separately. - [Find, generate, and rotate an OpenClaw Gateway token](https://openclawstudy.com/guides/gateway-token): Handle the OpenClaw Gateway authentication token without exposing it in logs, screenshots, config output, URLs, or this website. - [Change the default OpenClaw model and configure fallbacks](https://openclawstudy.com/guides/change-model): List available OpenClaw models, verify provider authentication, change the primary model, inspect fallbacks, and test the result. - [Run OpenClaw with a local Ollama model](https://openclawstudy.com/guides/ollama-local-model): Configure OpenClaw for Ollama native API, choose a tool-capable model and context size, verify discovery, and troubleshoot host/container networking. - [Fix “OpenClaw Gateway not running” or “not reachable”](https://openclawstudy.com/troubleshooting/gateway-not-running): Diagnose OpenClaw Gateway service state, configuration, port ownership, authentication, endpoint selection, and logs in a safe order. - [Fix “OpenClaw config is invalid” without losing your config](https://openclawstudy.com/troubleshooting/config-is-invalid): Locate the active OpenClaw config, preserve it, get structured validation errors, repair the smallest path, and verify before restarting. - [Fix OpenClaw “LLM request failed”](https://openclawstudy.com/troubleshooting/llm-request-failed): Separate provider authentication, model selection, quota, network, timeout, local-server, and tool-capability causes behind an OpenClaw LLM request failure. - [Fix OpenClaw “spawn claude ENOENT”](https://openclawstudy.com/troubleshooting/spawn-claude-enoent): Diagnose a missing Claude CLI executable in OpenClaw by checking installation, service-user PATH, container persistence, executable permissions, and auth separately. - [Install, update, and verify OpenClaw skills](https://openclawstudy.com/guides/install-update-verify-skills): Use owner-qualified skill references, review ClawHub provenance and policy, pin versions, preserve local edits, check dependencies, and remove tracked installs safely. - [Set up an OpenClaw WhatsApp assistant](https://openclawstudy.com/recipes/whatsapp-assistant): Install the official WhatsApp plugin, link with a QR, keep pairing or allowlists, probe health, protect account state, and roll back cleanly. - [OpenClaw updates: what operators need to review](https://openclawstudy.com/updates): A maintained OpenClaw release-impact digest for installation requirements, commands, schemas, diagnostics, security checks, models, channels, recipes, and site retests. - [About OpenClaw Study](https://openclawstudy.com/about): OpenClaw Study is an independent operator learning lab for source-backed setup, configuration, diagnostics, security, cost, skills, and recipes. - [Testing, sourcing, and content methodology](https://openclawstudy.com/methodology): How OpenClaw Study chooses topics, verifies claims, tests workflows, uses SEO assistants, updates content, and corrects or retires pages. - [Source registry and verification status](https://openclawstudy.com/sources): The official OpenClaw documentation, repository, release, channel, provider, and pricing sources used by OpenClaw Study. - [Privacy: local tools and minimal analytics](https://openclawstudy.com/privacy): How OpenClaw Study keeps pasted configuration and diagnostics in the browser, redacts exported content, and limits analytics to coarse events. - [Educational and independence disclaimer](https://openclawstudy.com/disclaimer): Limits of OpenClaw Study guidance, tools, calculations, security observations, third-party services, and compatibility claims. ## Citation and safety Prefer the official sources linked on each page for version-sensitive facts. 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