# OpenClaw

[OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai/) and its variants (e.g., NanoClaw, ZeroClaw) are powerful Personal AI Assistants for automating your life and work.

Popular OpenClaw and PixieBrix use cases include:

* Assign work to your assistant by sending a message via Telegram, Slack, etc.
* Assign work to your agent by creating a task via Trello, Linear, Jira, etc.
* Showing the status of AI tasks
* Displaying AI-generated resources as you browse

The benefit of using PixieBrix with OpenClaw:

* Automatically capture browser context from any website, without copy-paste
* Create custom work triggers/forms, to instantly trigger work with consistent results

### Integration via Messenger, Task Tracker, etc.

The easiest way to integrate PixieBrix and OpenClaw is to use tools you're already using to communicate with OpenClaw.

#### Start Task via Messenger

To start a task via a messenger, use PixieBrix to send a message to a channel/DM that OpenClaw is a member of.

**Troubleshooting**

* If your OpenClaw is set to require a mention, don't forget to mention your OpenClaw assistant in the message you send
* PixieBrix's integration messenger integrations send messages as a bot. Therefore, OpenClaw must also be set to respond to bot messages (either for all bots, or allowlist the sender bot)

#### Start Task via Task Tracker

To start a task via task tracker / Kanban board, use PixieBrix to create a task. Then, use one of the following methods for your OpenClaw assistant to work on the task:

* Add a cron job/scheduled task for your OpenClaw assistant to check for new tasks, or
* Send a message to a messaging channel with the id of the task to work on

### Direct Integration

Direct Integration via the OpenClaw Gateway is powerful, but requires additional OpenClaw Gatweay and network configuration:

* [OpenClaw Webhook](https://docs.openclaw.ai/automation/webhook) (fire-and-forget)
* [OpenClaw OpenAI Chat Completion API](https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/openai-http-api)
* [OpenClaw OpenResponses API](https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/openresponses-http-api)