OpenClaw Guide Ch.1: Concepts and Architecture

Chapter 1: OpenClaw Concepts and Architecture 🎯 Learning Objective: Understand the core concepts, architectural design, and working principles of OpenClaw 📖 What Is OpenClaw? OpenClaw is an open-source AI Agent orchestration platform that enables you to: 🤖 Create and manage multiple AI assistants 🔗 Connect various messaging channels (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, etc.) 🛠️ Equip Agents with powerful tools and skills 📊 Build complex automation workflows 🏗️ Scale to multi-server cluster architectures 🏗️ Core Architecture Overview ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ User Interface │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Telegram │ Discord │ WhatsApp │ Web │ ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Gateway │ ← Unified entry point & router ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Agent-1 │ Agent-2 │ Agent-3 │ ... │ ← AI assistant instances ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Tools: exec│file│web│browser│message │ ← Tool set ├──────────────────────────────