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OpenClaw does things. A brain makes it remember.

Your assistant answers on WhatsApp, runs jobs on schedule, and touches your real accounts. The knowledge it acts on deserves better than a prompt.

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AIVM Brain gives OpenClaw a governed second brain over MCP. Add one server block to OpenClaw's config and your assistant can recall your projects, preferences, and documents in any conversation, on any channel, with permissions enforced and every access recorded in a tamper-evident ledger.

How do you connect OpenClaw?

Connect OpenClaw using the current setup instructions inside your AIVM Brain workspace. Public access currently starts with the waitlist.

  1. Get workspace access. Join the waitlist with your work email and confirm your email. If you already have access, log in to your workspace.

  2. Follow the in-app setup for OpenClaw. Use the current connection instructions provided in your workspace for OpenClaw. Follow the access scope assigned to your agent.

  3. Check access and retrieval. Ask OpenClaw a question about an approved source and check its citation. Also test a restricted source to confirm that the agent cannot retrieve content outside its permissions.

Memory that follows the conversation, not the channel

OpenClaw's superpower is being everywhere you are: the same assistant on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage. That reach makes per-conversation context the wrong shape for memory. The brief you discussed in a Telegram thread should be recallable when you follow up by voice on your Mac a week later.

With a brain attached, OpenClaw's knowledge is one governed store, not a scatter of chat histories. It recalls what you told it wherever you told it, and what it captures in one channel is there for the next, subject to the permissions you set.

Autonomy without governance is how assistants get uninstalled

Your OpenClaw runs jobs on its own schedule and acts while you are not watching. That is the value, and the risk. The brain's job is to make the knowledge side of that autonomy safe: your assistant's key is scoped to what it may read and write, sensitive fields can be redacted rather than whole documents blocked, and there is a kill switch that cuts a key's access instantly. Every recall and capture lands in a content-blind, tamper-evident log, so you can always answer the question 'what did my assistant actually touch?' with a record instead of a shrug.

If you share your OpenClaw setup with family or a small team, the same rules scale down: each person's facts stay theirs unless granted, and the ledger keeps everyone honest.

Questions, answered

Does OpenClaw support MCP?

Yes, OpenClaw can connect to external MCP servers (stdio and HTTP) through its configuration, and the ecosystem leans on MCP for tools. The brain is a standard stdio MCP server, so it plugs into that mechanism.

Why not just let OpenClaw keep notes in files?

Files on the box work until you need permissions, shared access, redaction, deletion you can prove, or an audit trail. The brain adds the governance layer files cannot: who read what, when, under which role.

Can my OpenClaw and my coding agents share the brain?

Yes. One brain serves every MCP-capable agent you run, each with its own scoped key. Your assistant and your Claude Code can finally know the same things.

What happens to my data if I stop using it?

Export what you own, then shred. The governed delete is real deletion with a verifiable trail, not a soft-hide.

Is there a free tier?

Yes. Personal brains are free to start, no sales call. Pricing is public at brain.aivm.io/pricing.

Give OpenClaw a brain it can be held to.