OpenClaw Agent Technical Deep Dive

This document outlines the architecture and implementation of a production-ready OpenClaw agent system deployed on edge hardware. Over a four-day sprint, a complete system was engineered, moving from concept to a stable, running instance. The project involved significant hardware and software integration, including a dual-model LLM strategy for cost and latency optimization, multimodal input via OpenAI Whisper, and asynchronous communication channels. This post-mortem serves as a technical deep-dive for engineers and architects working on similar agent-based systems.