Five-minute orientation. What problem OpenClaw solves and what trade-offs it makes vs MCP-based stacks and framework-only approaches.
Start here if OpenClaw is new to you. Five-minute orientation, the seven canonical workspace files, a flat schematic of the runtime, and the drawbacks the official docs won't lead with. Every entry is sourced from docs.openclaw.ai or the canonical GitHub README; the verification state on each one tells you whether we've also run it ourselves yet.
1.1 sourced 2026-05-07
1.2 sourced 2026-05-07
Every OpenClaw concept that matters — what each one is, where the docs live, what it's called officially, and where it shows up in this site. Sourced from openclaw-primitives.json.
1.3 sourced 2026-05-07
How an OpenClaw deployment fits together — Gateway, agent runtime, channels, tools, models, memory — visualised as a flat schematic.
1.4 sourced 2026-05-07
What OpenClaw isn't great at — yet. The view that vendor docs won't give you, sourced from community discussions and reading the architecture critically.