Setting Up OpenClaw Model Providers

One of the first things you need to do after setting up OpenClaw is configure Model Providers. There are several options but these are the most common ones (and the ones that I have personally used): Comparison Of Model Providers OpenAI Codex Anthropic API Key Gemini API Key Ollama Providers

Setting Up OpenClaw

This post will cover setting up OpenClaw in a Home or Home Lab Linux environment. This is a continuation in the series of setting up OpenClaw as a personal assistant. There are different ways in which you can deploy OpenClaw for this use case: Of these, the second one is ruled out if you want…

OpenClaw For Normies

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard the term OpenClaw somewhere — in the news, from a friend, from an acquaintance. I kept hearing about it too, and about three weeks ago I finally got curious enough to start playing around with it. This is my introduction to OpenClaw and my particular…

Hosting models locally for OpenClaw

As I am exploring OpenClaw to setup a personal assistant for myself, I wanted to host some LLM capability locally. My hardware is a 3060 GPU with 12 GB VRAM. While this cannot host a good model to be the main backing AI for OpenClaw, it can still host several very capable models that can…

Setting up a mitmproxy for CLIs

Sometimes you need to understand what a CLI is doing or figure out what the request/response looks like, or why something isn’t working and you suspect an interaction that’s outside your control with a third-party server happening through the CLI. While this is not strictly just for CLIs, here’s the quick setup for mitmproxy for…