ChatClaw

ChatClaw is a persistent background bridge that connects your local OpenClaw agent to the ChatClaw cloud dashboard. Once installed and enabled, it runs automatically with OpenClaw and allows you to chat with your agent, monitor token usage, and manage tasks from any browser or mobile device — without exposing any ports or configuring a firewall.

What it does

Transparency note: The cloud relay endpoint (api.sumeralabs.com) is operated by SumeraLabs, the company behind ChatClaw. chatclaw.com is the product domain; sumeralabs.com is the infrastructure domain. Both are owned and operated by the same team.

ChatClaw opens two connections when enabled:

1. Cloud relay — an outbound WebSocket to wss://api.sumeralabs.com/ws/agent/{api_key}. This is how your dashboard communicates with the skill. It is a purely outbound connection and requires no inbound port forwarding.
2. Local gateway — a WebSocket connection to ws://localhost:18789 for Ed25519 authentication only, plus HTTP SSE calls to http://localhost:18789/v1/chat/completions for all chat traffic. The HTTP endpoint is auto-enabled in openclaw.json on first start.

Messages flow bidirectionally in real time. User messages sent from the dashboard are forwarded to the OpenClaw agent via HTTP SSE streaming. Each token of the agent's response is relayed back to the dashboard as it is generated, producing a live typewriter effect.

Architecture