# Operate Openclaw Agents

> Runs checklists and workflows for deploying, securing, scaling, and evaluating OpenClaw agents — personal incremental setup, enterprise containers, Kubernetes, maintainer PR triage, malleable evals, local vs cloud, team Slack agents. Use when the user deploys OpenClaw, hardens a rollout, designs agent evals, sets up a personal agent, compares Viktor-style Slack agents vs OpenClaw, or says "OpenClaw K8s", "OpenClaw security", "agent eval harness".

- Skill: `hiteshbandhu/operate-openclaw-agents` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add hiteshbandhu/operate-openclaw-agents`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/hiteshbandhu/operate-openclaw-agents/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: DevOps & Infra
- Author: hiteshbandhu (https://skillmd.com/u/hiteshbandhu)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/hiteshbandhu/operate-openclaw-agents

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# Operate OpenClaw agents

Action playbook from six conference talks. **Do not summarize talks** — pick a workflow and execute it.

**Supporting files:**
- [workflows.md](workflows.md) — workflows A–G (steps, deliverables, stop conditions)

Optional deliverables: `{SKILL_OUTPUT_DIR}/operate-openclaw-agents/` — see [skills-i-use OUTPUT.md](https://github.com/hiteshbandhu/skills-i-use/blob/main/skills/OUTPUT.md).

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## Step 0 — Pick workflow

```
What is the user trying to do?
├─ Run OpenClaw for themselves, safely        → A (personal, incremental)
├─ Run OpenClaw at work / for a team          → B (enterprise container)
├─ Scale many agents / tasks on Kubernetes    → C (K8s + disposable agents)
├─ Maintain OpenClaw or triage PR flood       → D (maintainer ops)
├─ Measure / eval a changing agent harness    → E (malleable evals)
├─ Decide local vs cloud personal agent       → F (local/private)
└─ Build company agent in Slack (not personal) → G (Viktor-style)
```

Open [workflows.md](workflows.md) for the chosen letter.

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## Install

```bash
cp -r skills/ai-engineer-talks/operate-openclaw-agents ~/.claude/skills/
cp -r skills/ai-engineer-talks/operate-openclaw-agents ~/.cursor/skills/
cp -r skills/ai-engineer-talks/operate-openclaw-agents ~/.codex/skills/
```

From [skills-i-use](https://github.com/hiteshbandhu/skills-i-use) or ingest-into-skills after sync.

Source corpus: [ingest-into-skills](https://github.com/hiteshbandhu/ingest-into-skills) `playlists/openclaw/`.

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## Output to user

1. Name the workflow (A–G) and deliverables you are producing
2. Save runbooks/checklists under `./skill-outputs/operate-openclaw-agents/` when the user wants files
3. Do not auto-commit

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## Invocation examples

```
@operate-openclaw-agents set up personal OpenClaw incrementally
harden OpenClaw for enterprise containers
design malleable evals for our OpenClaw harness
```