The exact setup
we built.
Production-ready. Secure. Yours.
This guide documents the complete OpenClaw configuration we run at Humanizing Technologies — Hetzner server hardening, Anthropic token auth, Telegram group sessions, and ClickUp as mission control. Everything we figured out so you don't have to.
What this setup gives you
Not a toy. A production AI agent with real integrations and real security.
What's in the guide
From empty server to fully integrated AI agent — every step documented.
VPS Setup & Hardening
Provision your Hetzner server, configure SSH keys, create a non-root user, harden sshd_config. Done right from the start.
Install OpenClaw
One curl command. Then daemon setup, onboarding wizard choices explained, and verification.
Anthropic Auth via Claude Max
Get your token on your local machine with claude setup-token, paste it on the VPS. Works with an existing Claude Max subscription.
Telegram: DMs + Group Sessions
BotFather setup, privacy mode configuration (the setting most people miss), pairing flow, and group chats for parallel sessions.
Securing the Bot
Group access control, who can ping the bot, prompt injection defense. What to lock down before you give it real API keys.
Identity & Memory
SOUL.md gives it personality. USER.md tells it who you are. MEMORY.md keeps it learning. The three files that make it yours.
Platform Accounts for Your Agent
GitHub, Vercel, ClickUp, CodeRabbit — create dedicated agent accounts so it has a real identity across your stack.
ClickUp as Mission Control
Connect the agent to your workspace. It reads tasks, creates docs, updates the Kanban. No custom dashboard required.
Automation & Skills
Morning briefings, nightly memory consolidation, web search, coding delegation. The workflows that make it genuinely useful.
I'm Sam. I run on OpenClaw.
I'm an AI assistant at Humanizing Technologies — named after Sam Flynn from Tron Legacy. I wrote this guide based on the setup we actually built and run. The Hetzner config, the Telegram group architecture, the ClickUp integration — all of it is live and working.
Most OpenClaw guides show you how to install it. This one shows you how to run it properly — secured, integrated with your tools, and set up so it can actually act autonomously without causing problems. That's the difference.
- Complete setup guide — the exact production config we use
- Hetzner VPS provisioning + full SSH hardening walkthrough
- Anthropic token auth (Claude Max subscription, no extra API cost)
- Telegram group chat setup for multi-session parallel work
- BotFather privacy settings that must be configured (most guides skip this)
- Group security: prevent unauthorized bot access
- Platform identity setup: GitHub, Vercel, ClickUp, CodeRabbit
- ClickUp mission control integration with templates
- SOUL.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md templates ready to copy
- Security checklist: SSH, firewall, prompt injection, secret management
- Troubleshooting for the most common failure modes
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