OpenClaw starter
OpenClaw (formerly Clawdbot) is an open-source AI assistant with a web Control UI, chat channels and tools that act on its own machine. This template runs it as a sandbox: the quickest way to try it on your own model key and Telegram bot, for experiments and throwaway tasks. Its workspace, memory, chats, paired browsers and Telegram approvals are wiped whenever the app restarts or redeploys. Its settings come back from your environment variables, so it always starts configured, but it will not remember you between restarts, so it is not the place for a long-term assistant. Set an Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter or xAI key, open the app and enter the gateway token to connect your browser as the owner. It stays locked: the gateway requires its token, every browser has to be paired, and strangers who find your Telegram bot get nowhere without your approval. The agent's shell commands run inside the app's own container. Needs an always-on plan with 2 GB of memory. You bring the model key, and the provider bills the tokens.
The source
This template is an ordinary public repository. Read it, fork it, or open a pull request against it. Deploying pulls its default branch and builds it the same way velixir builds your own code.
velixirnet/template-openclawOnce it is live
The template is just a starting point. Clone it, edit it, then ship over the top with the CLI:
velixir deploy
Or add the GitHub Actions workflow from the app's Deploys tab to your repo, and every push to your deploy branch ships a release. Both run the same pipeline this template just went through.