A Chinese OpenClaw tutorial so thorough it became a paper book

What it does

This is a comprehensive Chinese tutorial for OpenClaw, the open-source personal AI assistant, spanning fifteen chapters from first installation to “solo entrepreneur” workflows. It covers deployment options (including a free Feishu one-click route), file and knowledge management, scheduling, automation, the Skills ecosystem, and integrations with Feishu, WeCom, DingTalk, QQ, and WeChat. The author also turned it into a physical book, 《OpenClaw超级个体实操手册》, published by Tsinghua University Press.

The interesting bit

The README is unusually honest about its own staleness: it explicitly flags which chapters are aligned to the current v2026.9.3 baseline and which ones (3, 4, 6, 9) still contain legacy screenshots and outdated steps you should treat as “idea references, not copy-paste material.” That kind of self-audit is rare in tutorial repos.

Key highlights

• A 30-second decision table matching your situation (total beginner, server owner, enterprise, macOS user) to a deployment path
• Practical case chapters: personal productivity, advanced automation with cron/Task Flow/hooks, creative work with ComfyUI, and running a one-person business
• Appendices with command reference, Skills catalog, config templates, and a pitfall-avoidance guide
• Cross-version migration guidance centered on openclaw doctor --fix
• Requires Node 24.16+ (26 recommended)

Caveats

• Entirely in Chinese — non-readers are out of luck
• Chapters 3/4/6/9 and some one-click-deploy tutorials still contain outdated content, per the author’s own warning
• The README’s top section is now mostly promotion for the author’s newer GPT-6/Codex/Claude Code repos, which dilutes the tutorial itself

Verdict

Worth a look if you read Chinese and want a structured, battle-tested path into OpenClaw — the honest version-tracking alone beats most tutorial repos. Skip it if you need English docs or current-edge coverage of the latest release.