ShipClawGlossary
Plain-English definitions for the words that come up when you deploy an OpenClaw agent.
- BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)
- An arrangement where you supply your own Anthropic API key to a managed OpenClaw host. ShipClaw does NOT support BYOK — we manage the Anthropic relationship and bill credits at a flat rate.
- OpenClaw
- Anthropic's open-source AI agent runtime built on Claude. Spawns autonomous agents with tool use, browser automation, and persistent personality files. Not to be confused with Captain Claw, the 1997 Monolith Productions platformer.
- Pool node
- A shared-tenant OpenClaw host. Each pool node runs ~50 user agents inside one Railway container, with per-user process isolation, port-stride routing, and an idle timeout that suspends idle agents.
- SOUL.md
- A markdown-based personality file that defines an OpenClaw agent's voice, values, refusal rules, and tool preferences. ShipClaw ships 110 prebuilt SOUL.md personalities and supports custom uploads.
- Stealth browser
- OpenClaw's anti-detection web automation layer. Patches the standard Chromium fingerprint surface that bot-detection vendors rely on. Reduces — but does not eliminate — CAPTCHA and bot-block rates.