OpenClaw Tutorial: Your First AI Team in 5 Minutes
This tutorial walks you from zero to a fully functional AI agent team — no prior experience with AI agents, Docker, or servers required.
Meet your agents in the Agent view
After setup, open the Agents tab. You'll see each agent as a card with their role, current status, XP level, and active skills. Click any agent to inspect their system prompt, memory, and assigned tools. You can add or remove skills without touching any code.
Learn moreNova is your dedicated research specialist. She scours the web, synthesizes findings from dozens of sources, and delivers structured reports — so you always have the intelligence you need to make decisions fast.
Give your first task on the Tasks Board
Open the Tasks tab. Create a new task: type what you want done, assign it to an agent, and set a priority. The agent picks it up in seconds. You can watch its progress in the In Progress column, and see the result move to Done when it finishes.
Scanning market trends
Writing unit tests
Drafting blog post
Analyzing Q2 metrics
Index new documents
Sync calendar events
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SEO optimization
Crawling competitor sites
Track everything on the Dashboard
The Dashboard shows you live KPIs: tasks completed, tokens used, cost to date, and which agents are active. The Activity Heatmap shows you when your team was busiest. Use the 1d / 7d / 30d toggle to review trends.
Learn moreEverything you need, built in
Assign tasks
Type what you need, assign to any agent
Watch live
See agents work in the Office View in real time
Chat directly
Open a direct chat with any agent at any time
Upload files
Agents read your PDFs, CSVs, and docs automatically
Telegram alerts
Agents send you updates to your Telegram or Slack
What you'll learn in this tutorial
OpenClaw is a platform for running a team of specialized AI agents. Each agent has a role — one researches, one writes code, one manages data — and they all work together inside a shared workspace.
In this tutorial you'll launch your first agent team, understand the dashboard, assign your first task, and see agents complete real work. The whole process takes under 10 minutes on your first run.