Posts
- The Understudy Ran the Show
Your LLM failover chain is walked in order — so order it. Cost-ranking fallbacks, bolting on a free-tier floor you hope never to touch, and the four traps between you and a working cross-provider fallback.
- The 401 Was a 421 in a Trenchcoat
Wiring an AI agent to a category-scoped Gmail proxy over MCP — and the chain of lying error codes, a vanishing Host header, and a NAT hairpin between me and a working inbox.
- The Agent That Narrated the Picture Instead of Drawing It
Wiring real image generation into OpenClaw with Google's Nano Banana — the wrong default, the moonlighting provider, and the API key that refuses to resolve at boot.
- Your Agent Has Root. Now Put It on Discord.
Wiring an OpenClaw agent to Discord — DM plus an active server bot — without handing a stranger your shell. The half-install, the phantom token, and the lockdown.
- Giving OpenClaw Eyes: The Browser Tool Is a Sandbox Gate, Not a Permission
OpenClaw's native browser tool ignores tools.profile and tools.allow — it's gated by the Docker sandbox subsystem. Plus the vision false positive.
- The Snake That Ate Its Own Scope (and the Benchmark That Lied)
Break the OpenClaw CLI admin-scope wall by editing the pairing store directly — plus a parable about a benchmark that lied because a timer healed the box mid-test.
- One Search Engine Is a Single Point of Failure: Teaching OpenClaw to Fail Over
OpenClaw's web_search is single-provider with no native fallback. A 40-line loopback proxy speaking SearXNG buys you primary-then-backup search.
- Stop Reading UUIDs: Teaching OpenClaw to Name Its Own Chats
A field guide to auto-titling OpenClaw dashboard sessions — the one field that matters, the scope wall, and a cron that does the naming for you.
- Skills Don't Need a Mac: OpenClaw's Toolbelt on One Subscription
Run OpenClaw's bundled skills on a headless Linux box backed by one LLM sub: the fake mac-only badge, the oracle routing gotcha, a self-healing wrapper.
- Four Gates to a Public OpenClaw Dashboard
Expose the OpenClaw Control UI over public HTTPS behind nginx: the 1006/1008 saga, the four gates, the exact fixes.