Let me tell you what you're getting into. OpenClaw (you may have heard of it as Clawdbot or Moltbot) is an open-source AI assistant that lives inside your messaging apps. By the end of this section, you'll understand who built it, how its 3-layer architecture fits together, and what you can do with it.
I'll walk you through the use cases, the trade-offs, and the setup path. Ready? Let's go.