Give your OpenClaw agent a serverless backend for REST APIs, webhooks, data storage, scheduled jobs, queue workers, and autonomous workflows.

OpenClaw agents run locally. That's great for privacy, but tricky when you need:

• REST APIs with automatic OpenAPI documentation
• Webhook endpoints that work when your Mac is asleep
• Persistent storage beyond local files
• Scheduled jobs that run 24/7
• Reliable integrations with Stripe, Shopify, GitHub
• Multi-step workflows that run autonomously with retries and state management

This skill gives your agent everything it needs to deploy and manage serverless backends.

Human does once:

npm install -g codehooks
coho login
coho create my-backend
coho add-admintoken

Give the admin token to your agent.

Agent uses:

export CODEHOOKS_ADMIN_TOKEN="your-token-here"
coho deploy --admintoken $CODEHOOKS_ADMIN_TOKEN

Your agent now has a live webhook URL, database, and job runner. Codehooks has a free tier to get started, and paid plans have no extra charges for traffic or API calls.

Run this to get the complete development prompt:

coho prompt

This outputs everything your agent needs to build with codehooks-js — routes, database operations, queues, jobs, workflows. Feed it into your agent's context.

macOS shortcut:

coho prompt | pbcopy

• SKILL.md — The skill file for OpenClaw
• examples/ — Ready-to-use code templates
  • webhook-handler.js — Webhook with signature verification
  • daily-job.js — Scheduled task example
  • queue-worker.js — Async queue processing
  • workflow-automation.js — Multi-step autonomous workflows

All commands accept --admintoken $CODEHOOKS_ADMIN_TOKEN for non-interactive use. Full CLI reference

import { app, Datastore } from 'codehooks-js';
import { verify } from 'webhook-verify';

// Allow webhook endpoint without JWT authentication
app.auth('/stripe-webhook', (req, res, next) => next());

app.post('/stripe-webhook', async (req, res) => {
  // Verify signature using rawBody (essential for HMAC validation)
  const isValid = verify('stripe', req.rawBody, req.headers, process.env.STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET);
  if (!isValid) {
    return res.status(401).send('Invalid signature');
  }

  const conn = await Datastore.open();
  await conn.insertOne('payments', {
    event: req.body,
    receivedAt: new Date().toISOString()
  });
  res.json({ received: true });
});

export default app.init();

Workflows let your agent kick off multi-step processes that run independently:

// Agent starts a workflow
const { workflowId } = await fetch('/workflow/start', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({
    data: taskData,
    callbackUrl: 'https://my-agent/webhook' // Get notified on completion
  })
}).then(r => r.json());

// Workflow runs autonomously with retries, state persistence, and error handling
// Agent gets notified via callback when done

See examples/workflow-automation.js for a complete example.

• How to Give Your OpenClaw Agent a Backend — Blog post walkthrough
• Codehooks Documentation
• OpenAPI/Swagger Docs
• AI development prompt
• webhook-verify — Signature verification for Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, etc.
• More templates
• MCP Server

MIT

Your agent writes the code. Codehooks runs it.