Installing OpenClaw the Easy Way

I started installing OpenClaw manually — reading through the docs, figuring out each step, hitting the usual walls. It was taking too long, so I stopped and decided to try a different approach. So instead of repeating the process, I wrote a skill for it: ac-openclaw , a set of instructions and references that lets an AI coding agent handle the whole thing. This is the skill-driven development approach I described in a previous post — let the agent do the work, fix the skill when it gets something wrong, repeat until it gets it right. The result is a skill that handles the full installation and configuration of OpenClaw on a VPS. You tell your agent "set up OpenClaw on my server" and it walks through everything: provisioning, hardening, messaging channels, backups. The skill encodes the gotchas so you don't have to hit them yourself. What you get With the skill loaded, setting up OpenClaw goes roughly like this: "Set up OpenClaw on my new Hetzner server" The agent asks a few questions —