OpenClaw + GitHub Copilot + Claude Opus 4.6 parameter tuning log

Running OpenClaw with default config will hit two problems after a while: quota burns too fast and long sessions crash from timeouts. This post logs 8 parameters I actually tuned, and the reasoning behind each. Architecture First Here’s my setup: GitHub Copilot Pro+: $19/month, 1500 premium requests/month quota Claude Opus 4.6: accessed via Copilot’s model routing, model ID github-copilot/claude-opus-4.6 OpenClaw: handles Telegram interactions, Skill calls, scheduled tasks Quota math: each AI assistant reply = 1 premium request (including replies after tool calls). 1500 sounds like plenty, but without optimization it dries up fast. ...

2026-04-08 · 5 min · 940 words · Panshi

What is OpenClaw: An integrated platform of AI assistants + toolchain

OpenClaw Intro & Setup If you’ve used Claude Code, you can think of OpenClaw as its “async version”—Claude Code is great when you’re sitting at your computer working interactively, while OpenClaw is designed to let AI help you continuously in the background, even when you’re away from your desk. What OpenClaw Is Actually For One sentence: Give your AI assistant the ability to access and operate external tools, and interact with you through Telegram and other channels. ...

2026-04-07 · 4 min · 663 words · Panshi

OpenClaw Troubleshooting Guide: Pitfalls I've Encountered and How to Resolve Them

Using OpenClaw for automation—the real headache isn’t configuration, it’s when things mysteriously stop working mid-run. This post covers the failures I’ve hit and their fixes. Gateway Issues Gateway Service Won’t Start Symptoms: Telegram messages go unanswered, AI assistant doesn’t reply. Check: openclaw gateway status Common Causes & Solutions: Cause Solution Process crashed openclaw gateway restart Bot Token expired Get a fresh token from BotFather, update config Port conflict Use lsof -i :port to find what’s using it, kill it Windows won’t auto-start on boot Add to Task Scheduler for startup Windows Caveat: On Windows, Gateway doesn’t auto-start with the system. After each reboot, you need to manually launch it: ...

2026-04-06 · 4 min · 735 words · Panshi

Claude API cost-saving guide: controlling usage from hundreds down to tens of dollars per month

Claude API costs can easily spiral out of control—stronger models cost more per call, and longer context costs more. This post shares my approach to cost control. Claude Model Pricing Comparison (2026) Model Input $/MTok Output $/MTok Use case claude-opus-4-6 $15 $75 Complex reasoning, code generation claude-sonnet-4-6 $3 $15 General tasks, writing claude-haiku-4-5 $0.8 $4 Simple classification, summarization MTok = million tokens. 1 token ≈ 0.75 English words ≈ 0.5 Chinese characters. ...

2026-04-05 · 3 min · 587 words · Panshi

Claude Code in Real Use: How I Manage 9 Servers with AI

I’ve been using Claude Code—Anthropic’s CLI tool—to manage my fleet of servers since last year, and it’s genuinely changed how I work with infrastructure. This is what AI should be doing: not chatting, but actually getting things done. My setup 9 overseas VPS instances (AWS / DMIT / Tencent Cloud), distributed across the US, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore, running: Proxy nodes (Xray + Hysteria2) Quantitative trading strategies Monitoring stack (Prometheus + Grafana) Various automation scripts I used to SSH into each machine manually. Now I just tell Claude Code “update the Xray config on the Japan machine,” and it handles the SSH connection, modifies the config, restarts the service, and verifies it’s working. ...

2026-04-05 · 4 min · 689 words · Panshi