
Learn to build and run your own ai assistant with open cloud on a vps, deploying agents with memory and search capabilities.
Learn the fundamentals of llm and ai agents with OpenClaw as a practical example, and see how ai agents perform tasks that an llm alone cannot.
Open cloud is a platform to create, run, and manage ai agents, or ai workers, that perform tasks using llm brains like blog posts, emails, and research.
Set up open claw on VPS by selecting a hostinger plan, installing Ubuntu and Docker, then deploying open cloud. Add OpenAI API key and gateway token to enable AI agents.
Explore the basic navigation of OpenClaw, from gateway token and socket status to channels, sessions, cron jobs, agents, and chat with dark mode.
Learn how to secure OpenClaw by adding safety limits before AI interaction, preventing file access or deletion, unauthorized commands, credential leaks, and prompt injection, plus applying gateway security rules.
Enable the OpenClaw portal via the terminal and implement security prompts. Enforce safety rules: seek approval before messages, confirm deletions and network requests, cap retries at three or ten minutes.
Understand how to give your open cloud AI agent skills, including memory, web search, messaging, and app automation, using ClawHub, with setup steps and safety tips.
Enable memory capabilities in OpenClaw by installing a memory skill from claw hub, such as dory memory, by copying the URL and confirming the install.
Enhance OpenClaw with deep search by installing a web search capability through Perplexity AI, configuring the API key securely, and validating safe, powered skill integration.
Sign up for Perfexility, generate your API key for real-time search API access, and review the API guide to connect to your open cloud and AI agents.
Reduce llm cost by using memory in openclaw. Install the qmd memory skill to let the agent consult a local notebook of past conversations before querying the llm.
Open cloud adds Google workspace capabilities via inbuilt skills, enabling Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and Slides integration for AI agents through a complete API setup and Google auth workflow.
Explore the open cloud workspace, where agents.md defines behavior rules, soul.md captures personality, and user.md stores user information; memory.md covers long-term memory. Learn how these files shape your AI assistant.
Learn how cron jobs schedule tasks at specific times while heartbeat provides frequent monitoring every 30 minutes; choose cron for timing and heartbeat for monitoring to avoid costly API costs.
Enable voice mode for the MoltBot OpenClaw AI agent with whisper-based transcription. Set up https for voice responses so the agent can talk back and respond to audio prompts.
Learn how a main agent creates sub-agents to run tasks in parallel, then compiles a final compiler report from their concurrent results.
Artificial intelligence assistants are rapidly becoming one of the most useful tools for developers, founders, and businesses. But most people rely on closed platforms where they have little control over data, customization, or cost.
That is where OpenClaw changes the game.
OpenClaw is a powerful open-source AI assistant platform that allows you to create your own intelligent agents, connect tools, add memory, automate tasks, and run everything on your own infrastructure.
In this OpenClaw course, you will learn exactly how to install, configure, and use OpenClaw to create real AI assistants from scratch.
Instead of just explaining theory, this course walks you step-by-step through the entire process of setting up OpenClaw on a server, connecting tools like Telegram, adding skills, managing memory, reducing AI costs, and finally creating useful AI agents.
By the end of this course, you will be able to deploy your own AI assistant that can research information, summarize emails, automate workflows, and perform tasks autonomously.
This OpenClaw tutorial is designed to take you from beginner to confident user in a structured way.
You will start by understanding the basics of LLMs and AI agents so you know how modern assistants actually work.
Then you will install OpenClaw on a VPS and learn how the OpenClaw system is structured. After that, you will explore the OpenClaw interface, start your first conversation with the assistant, and configure the environment correctly.
From there, the course moves into powerful features such as:
connecting Telegram to interact with your assistant
installing skills from the OpenClaw ecosystem
adding memory capabilities so the assistant remembers information
adding search functionality
using APIs like Perplexity for enhanced responses
configuring workspace settings for agents, users, and memory
setting up scheduled jobs using cron tasks
enabling voice mode
creating sub-agents to perform tasks faster
managing logs, updates, and backups
One of the most important lessons in the course focuses on reducing AI costs. You will learn how to configure model selection and apply cost control rules so your AI assistants remain affordable while still performing well.
Finally, you will create your first real AI agents including a Research Assistant and an Email Summarizer that demonstrate how OpenClaw can be used for real productivity tasks.
Most tutorials online only show small pieces of the puzzle. This course brings everything together so you understand how the whole system works.
If you skip learning OpenClaw now, you risk falling behind as open-source AI agents quickly become a core tool for developers, startups, and automation professionals.
The advantage of learning OpenClaw today is that you gain control over your own AI assistants instead of depending entirely on third-party tools.
This course gives you practical skills that you can immediately apply to:
create custom AI assistants
automate tasks
experiment with agent workflows
reduce AI usage costs
host your own AI systems
Whether you want to experiment with AI agents, create automation tools, or simply understand how modern AI assistants operate behind the scenes, this course will give you the clarity and practical knowledge you need.
By the end, you will not only understand OpenClaw — you will be confidently running your own AI assistant system.