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OpenClaw Features: Channels, Routing, Media, and UX

Explore OpenClaw's capabilities across channels, routing, media, and user experience. This page is for developers and administrators evaluating multi-platform messaging integration.

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  • You want a full list of what OpenClaw supports

Highlights

  • Channels, A single Gateway connects Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, WebChat, and others.

  • Plugins, Official plugins add Matrix, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, Twitch, Zalo, and many more using a single install command.

  • Routing, Route messages across multiple agents with separate sessions.

  • Media, Support for images, audio, video, documents, and generating images or video.

  • Apps and UI, Includes a Windows Hub, browser Control UI, macOS menu bar app, and mobile nodes.

  • Mobile nodes, iOS and Android nodes offer pairing, voice and chat features, plus rich device commands.

Full list

Channels:

  • iMessage, Telegram, and WebChat come with the base installation; all other channels are official plugins installed via openclaw plugins install @openclaw/<id> (or on demand during openclaw onboard / openclaw channels add).
  • Official plugin channels: Discord, Feishu, Google Chat, IRC, LINE, Matrix, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Nextcloud Talk, Nostr, QQ Bot, Raft, Signal, Slack, SMS, Synology Chat, Tlon, Twitch, Voice Call, WhatsApp, Zalo, and Zalo Personal.
  • External plugin channels maintained outside the OpenClaw repository: WeChat, Yuanbao, and Zalo ClawBot.
  • Group chat is supported with activation through mentions.
  • Direct messages use allowlists and pairing for safety.

Agent:

  • An embedded agent runtime streams tool calls.
  • Multi-agent routing keeps sessions isolated per workspace or sender.
  • Direct chat sessions merge into a shared main; group sessions stay separate.
  • Streaming and chunking handle long responses.

Auth and providers:

  • Over 35 model providers are available (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and others).
  • Subscription authentication uses OAuth, for example OpenAI Codex.
  • Custom and self-hosted providers work with vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, and any endpoint compatible with OpenAI or Anthropic.

Media:

  • Images, audio, video, and documents can be sent and received.
  • Shared capabilities for generating images and video are available.
  • Voice notes are transcribed automatically.
  • Text-to-speech is supported through multiple providers.

Apps and interfaces:

  • WebChat and the browser Control UI are included.
  • A macOS menu bar companion app is provided.
  • The iOS node offers pairing, Canvas, camera, screen recording, location, and voice.
  • The Android node supports pairing, chat, voice, Canvas, camera, and device commands.

Tools and automation:

  • Browser automation, command execution, and sandboxing are built in.
  • Web search integrates with Brave, DuckDuckGo, Exa, Firecrawl, Gemini, Grok, Kimi, MiniMax Search, Ollama Web Search, Perplexity, SearXNG, and Tavily.
  • Cron jobs and heartbeat scheduling are available.
  • Skills, plugins, and workflow pipelines (Lobster) are supported.

  • Experimental features, Opt in to features not yet released on the default surface.

  • Agent runtime, Describes the agent runtime model and how runs are dispatched.

  • Channels, Connect Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Slack, and more through a single Gateway.

  • Plugins, Official and external plugins that extend OpenClaw.