🦀 Crabwalk

Real-time companion monitor for OpenClaw (Clawdbot) agents by @luccasveg.

Watch your AI agents work across WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, and Slack in a live node graph. See thinking states, tool calls, and response chains as they happen.

Features

• Live activity graph - ReactFlow visualization of agent sessions and action chains
• Multi-platform - Monitor agents across all messaging platforms simultaneously
• Real-time streaming - WebSocket connection to openclaw gateway
• Action tracing - Expand nodes to inspect tool args and payloads
• Session filtering - Filter by platform, search by recipient

Installation

Via OpenClaw Agent

Paste this link to your OpenClaw agent and ask it to install/update Crabwalk:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luccast/crabwalk/master/public/skill.md

CLI Install

VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/luccast/crabwalk/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name"' | cut -d'"' -f4)
mkdir -p ~/.crabwalk ~/.local/bin
curl -sL "https://github.com/luccast/crabwalk/releases/download/${VERSION}/crabwalk-${VERSION}.tar.gz" | tar -xz -C ~/.crabwalk
cp ~/.crabwalk/bin/crabwalk ~/.local/bin/
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/crabwalk

CLI Usage

Commands

crabwalk                    # Start server (default: 0.0.0.0:3000)
crabwalk start --daemon     # Run in background
crabwalk stop               # Stop background server
crabwalk status             # Check if running
crabwalk update             # Update to latest version

Options

-p, --port       Server port (default: 3000)
-H, --host       Bind address (default: 0.0.0.0)
-g, --gateway     Gateway WebSocket URL (default: ws://127.0.0.1:18789)
-t, --token     Gateway auth token
-d, --daemon           Run in background
-v, --version          Show version

Examples

crabwalk -p 8080                           # Custom port
crabwalk -t mytoken123                     # Explicit token
crabwalk -g ws://192.168.1.50:18789        # Remote gateway
crabwalk start -d -p 8080                  # Daemon on port 8080

Auto-detection

The CLI automatically detects your gateway token from ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json - no config needed if you’re running OpenClaw locally.

QR Code

On startup, Crabwalk displays a QR code you can scan to open the monitor on your phone. Requires qrencode installed (the installer adds it automatically).

Docker (recommended)

docker run -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e CLAWDBOT_API_TOKEN=your-token \
  -e CLAWDBOT_URL=ws://host.docker.internal:18789 \
  -v ~/.openclaw/workspace:/root/.openclaw/workspace \
  ghcr.io/luccast/crabwalk:latest

Note: When running Crabwalk in Docker, the OpenClaw gateway typically runs on the host. Use CLAWDBOT_URL=ws://host.docker.internal:18789 so the container can connect. If you’re running OpenClaw with bind: loopback and tailscale serve for secure tailnet-only access, you’ll need to run the crabwalk container with host networking - replace p:3000:3000 with --network host This allows the container to reach 127.0.0.1:18789 while maintaining the security benefits of loopback-only binding.

Workspace Access

The workspace explorer needs access to your local files. By default, it looks for files at ~/.openclaw/workspace. In Docker, mount your host workspace to the same path in the container:

# Default workspace path (recommended)
docker run -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e CLAWDBOT_API_TOKEN=your-token \
  -v ~/.openclaw/workspace:/root/.openclaw/workspace \
  ghcr.io/luccast/crabwalk:latest

# Custom workspace path on host
docker run -d \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -e CLAWDBOT_API_TOKEN=your-token \
  -v /path/to/your/workspace:/root/.openclaw/workspace \
  ghcr.io/luccast/crabwalk:latest

Or with docker-compose:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luccast/crabwalk/master/docker-compose.yml
CLAWDBOT_API_TOKEN=your-token docker-compose up -d

To use a custom workspace path with docker-compose, set the WORKSPACE_HOST_PATH environment variable:

WORKSPACE_HOST_PATH=/path/to/your/workspace CLAWDBOT_API_TOKEN=your-token docker-compose up -d

If gateway is bind: loopback only, you will need to edit the docker-compose.yml to add network_mode: host

From source

git clone https://github.com/luccast/crabwalk.git
cd crabwalk
npm install
CLAWDBOT_API_TOKEN=your-token npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000/monitor

Configuration

Requires OpenClaw gateway running on the same machine.

Gateway Token

The CLI auto-detects your token from ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json (at gateway.auth.token). No manual config needed for local setups.

To find your token manually:

jq '.gateway.auth.token' ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

Or set it explicitly:

crabwalk -t your-token
# or
export CLAWDBOT_API_TOKEN=your-token

Stack

TanStack Start, ReactFlow, Framer Motion, tRPC, TanStack DB