Nessie OpenClaw
Nessie OpenClaw is the public native OpenClaw plugin for connecting an OpenClaw agent to a user's Nessie context library.
The plugin provides a native OpenClaw setup command and bundled skill guidance
for Nessie's hosted MCP server. Setup writes mcp.servers.nessie into
OpenClaw config so OpenClaw's MCP client can discover the hosted Nessie tools
directly from https://mcp.nessielabs.com/mcp.
Install
Once published to ClawHub:
openclaw plugins install clawhub:@nessielabs/nessie-openclaw
openclaw plugins enable nessie-openclaw
For local development:
openclaw plugins install --link .
openclaw plugins enable nessie-openclaw
Restart the OpenClaw gateway/session after installation so the setup CLI and bundled skill instructions are loaded.
OpenClaw Chat Setup
After installing the plugin, connect OpenClaw to your Nessie account with an email verification code.
Ask OpenClaw to run:
openclaw nessie init --email user@example.com
Check your email for the 6-digit Nessie code, then ask OpenClaw to run:
openclaw nessie init --email user@example.com --code 123456
openclaw nessie status
init --email asks Nessie to send a one-time verification code. init --email --code exchanges the verified code for a Nessie agent API key and writes a
root MCP server entry to the OpenClaw config file with owner-only file
permissions.
Manual Authentication
If OTP setup is not available yet, create an agent API key in Nessie and run:
openclaw nessie init --api-key "sk_nes_v1_..."
This writes the same OpenClaw MCP server config used by the OTP setup flow.
Both setup paths store the bearer key in the local OpenClaw config file in
plaintext with 0600 permissions so OpenClaw can use the hosted MCP server
without extra shell setup.
The Nessie backend remains authoritative for access control. The API key maps to a Nessie user server-side and each MCP request is still checked against the user's Pro/trial entitlement.
Agent Behavior
The bundled skill teaches OpenClaw to:
- run a Nessie check-in when the user asks for it;
- search Nessie before answering questions about prior work, decisions, projects, conversations, notes, or saved context;
- read full sources before making strong claims;
- create or update Nessie contexts only when the user asks to save durable knowledge.
This package does not duplicate or reimplement Nessie's MCP tool schemas. OpenClaw discovers the tool names, descriptions, and parameters from the hosted MCP server after setup.
Future releases can be picked up with:
openclaw plugins update @nessielabs/nessie-openclaw
Validate
npm run validate