OpenClaw integrations, and the managed version of the same job
How OpenClaw reaches other tools, what keeping those connections working involves, and what it looks like when someone else runs them. We make PocketClaw, which is the managed option described here. It is a separate product from OpenClaw, it runs on iPhone only, and it is a paid subscription.
How does OpenClaw connect to other tools?
OpenClaw connects to other tools through skills, which are packages installed into an OpenClaw instance running on hardware you control. The catalog is community published, so the range is wide, the quality varies, and keeping a connection working is part of running the server. That suits someone who wants a say in every piece. It gets in the way of someone who just wants the connection to be there. PocketClaw takes the other route. Connections are OAuth grants to accounts you already have, 35 tools are available, and there is nothing to install or keep running. PocketClaw also stops before anything leaves an account: a reply, a refund, or a subscription change is drafted and held until you approve it. PocketClaw is a separate product from OpenClaw and shares no code with it.
Two ways to connect the same tool
Both approaches end with an agent that can read your calendar and draft your mail. They differ in who owns the plumbing, and that difference decides which one suits you.
OpenClaw: skills you install and maintain
A skill is a package that teaches the agent to work with a service. You install it into your own instance, supply the credentials or API keys it needs, and update it when the service or the skill changes. The catalog is published by the community, which is why it covers so much ground and why two skills for the same service can behave differently. The instance runs on your machine or your server, so the connection is yours end to end.
PocketClaw: OAuth grants to accounts you already have
You sign in to a service and grant access, the same way you would connect any other app. You do not install a package, store an API key, or keep an instance running. 35 tools are available across email, calendar, projects, code, monitoring, support, and payments. Access is scoped per account and you can revoke it from the service itself at any time.
The difference that matters day to day
Running your own instance means a broken connection is yours to fix, and also that nobody else decides what the agent may reach. A managed connection means the fixing is not your problem, and the trade is that the list of available tools is ours rather than yours. Neither is the better answer in general. They are answers to different questions.
One thing worth knowing before installing anything from a community catalog, stated with its dates because the vague version of this story is scarier than what happened: in February 2026 a supply-chain campaign put trojanized skills into ClawHub, and researchers counted 1,184 malicious packages across 12 publisher accounts before they were removed. Around the same time a one-click remote code execution flaw, CVE-2026-25253, was disclosed and fixed in OpenClaw 2026.1.29. The February package batch was removed, and that CVE is patched. Both are the reason it is now normal to ask where an agent's extensions come from. Sources and the fuller account.
The connections people ask about most
These are the tools that come up most often alongside this search. Each links to what PocketClaw specifically does with it, so you can judge the managed version on detail rather than on a claim.
Calendar
A calendar is usually the first thing worth connecting, because most routines start with what the day already contains. PocketClaw reads the schedule, works out which meetings need preparation, and pulls the related mail and tasks into a brief before the day starts.
What PocketClaw does with Calendar →Notion
Notes and tasks are usually where the answer to a question already lives. PocketClaw searches the workspace for the page that answers what came in, files new tasks with the context attached, and keeps the record where the rest of the work is.
What PocketClaw does with Notion →Outlook
PocketClaw reads the inbox, groups what arrived by what it needs, drafts the routine replies in your voice, and holds every one of them. Nothing sends until you approve it.
What PocketClaw does with Outlook →Gmail
The same job on the other mail provider. PocketClaw surfaces the messages that need a decision, summarizes threads that have run long, and turns real requests into tracked tasks instead of leaving them in your memory of having read them.
What PocketClaw does with Gmail →Slack
PocketClaw reads the channels that matter, tells you what was asked of you while you were elsewhere, and drafts the replies. It does not post on its own.
What PocketClaw does with Slack →GitHub and Sentry, for bug triage
This is the routine people describe when they search for automating bug triage. A customer reports something broken, PocketClaw finds the matching error, counts how many other people hit it, names the change that likely caused it, files the task, and drafts the reply to the customer.
What PocketClaw does with GitHub and Sentry, for bug triage →
When OpenClaw is the right answer and PocketClaw is not
If you want an agent on your own hardware, with access to your file system, able to run shell commands, extended by anything you can write yourself, and costing nothing to license, OpenClaw does all of that and PocketClaw does none of it. That is not a gap we plan to close. It is a different product.
PocketClaw is built for one person running a business across a pile of SaaS accounts, who wants the reading and the triage handled and would rather approve a reply than write it. It is iPhone only, with Android on a waitlist. If you need a computer controlled or local files touched, the self-hosted options are the right call and the roundup names them.
If you would rather not run the server
PocketClaw connects to the accounts already running your business, tells you what needs attention, and drafts the next step. Anything that leaves an account waits for your approval. iPhone only for now.
Common questions
- What integrations does OpenClaw support?
- OpenClaw is extended through community published skills rather than a fixed list maintained by one vendor, so the answer changes as people publish and retire them. We do not maintain OpenClaw and any inventory we wrote here would be out of date quickly, so the catalog itself is the right place to check. The shape of it matters more than the list anyway. A skill is something you install into your own instance and keep working, and two skills for the same service can be built by different people to different standards.
- Is PocketClaw a version of OpenClaw?
- No. PocketClaw shares no code with OpenClaw and is not derived from it. The names are similar because OpenClaw's success produced a large number of independently built tools with claw in the name. PocketClaw is a managed iPhone app for solo founders that connects to business accounts over OAuth and holds anything that leaves an account until the owner approves it.
- Can I connect OpenClaw to my calendar and email?
- Yes, through skills for those services, installed into an instance you run. The work is the running: credentials to supply, updates to apply, and a server that has to stay up for a scheduled routine to fire. If that part is the appeal, OpenClaw is a good fit and this page is not trying to talk you out of it. If that part is the obstacle, a managed tool removes it and takes away some control in exchange.
- Is it safe to give an agent access to my accounts?
- It depends on what the agent can do once it is in, and that is the question worth asking of any tool including ours. Two things to look for: whether access is scoped and revocable from the service itself, and whether the agent can act without you seeing it first. PocketClaw uses OAuth so access can be revoked from the account side, and drafts rather than sends, so a reply, a refund, or a subscription change waits for approval. Worth stating plainly about OpenClaw as well: the one-click remote code execution flaw disclosed in February 2026, CVE-2026-25253, was fixed in version 2026.1.29, so a current install is not carrying it.
- Which one should a small business use?
- If nobody at the business wants to operate a server, a managed tool is the honest answer, and PocketClaw is one of several. If somebody does want to, OpenClaw gives more control than any managed product can and costs nothing to license. Company size has little to do with it. What decides it is whether running the thing is a job someone is willing to own.