Functional Overview

OpenClaw is the coordination layer for Christopher Tan’s personal AI and homelab workflows. It routes conversations to the configured default OpenAI model, can delegate coding work to the local OpenVINO model, records durable context in workspace and BookStack documentation, and connects approved integrations such as email, Paperless-ngx, Home Assistant, UniFi, Proxmox and chat channels.

Operating principles

• Prefer read-only inspection and reversible changes.
• Trial newly requested ongoing actions once before promoting them.
• Keep credentials in protected storage; documentation contains names, relationships and safe configuration references only.
• Require approval for external, destructive, public, credential, scheduler and live-configuration actions.
• Verify API-backed changes with a fresh read-back.

Relationship summary

OpenClaw is the orchestrator; BookStack is the human-readable knowledge base; workspace files hold agent behaviour and identity; model providers supply hosted or local inference; plugins and skills provide capabilities; service integrations expose narrowly scoped operational data.