cloro OpenClaw Integration: Monitor AI Search from Your Agent

The cloro OpenClaw integration adds seven AI search monitoring tools to your OpenClaw agent. It submits any prompt to the real ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Mode interfaces. It also covers Google Search with AI Overviews and Google News. Each call returns the parsed answer along with the sources that engine cited.

OpenClaw plugins extend what your agent can do natively. They read email, manage a calendar, or browse the web. What no plugin covered until now is the surface your customers increasingly use to find you. That surface is what AI assistants actually say when someone asks about your product category. The cloro OpenClaw integration closes that gap. “Check whether Google’s AI Overview for best crm for startups mentions us” becomes a message you type to your agent. It is no longer a script you have to write and maintain.

What is OpenClaw, and where does the integration fit?

OpenClaw is an open-source framework for running a personal AI agent. You host it yourself behind a gateway process, then extend it with plugins and skills. The community ships plugins for calendars, email, browsers, and dozens of other everyday tasks. The agent decides which tool to call based on what you ask it in plain language.

The cloro OpenClaw integration is one of those plugins. Instead of touching your inbox or filesystem, it points your agent outward at AI search engines. When you ask about your brand’s presence in ChatGPT or Google AI Mode, the agent reaches for a cloro tool. It runs the query, reads back the answer, and reasons over the result inside the same chat.

Two ways to connect

There are two ways to wire cloro into OpenClaw. The first is the plugin, which registers seven typed tools with a managed API key. The second is MCP, which points your agent at cloro’s hosted server over the Model Context Protocol. Both are covered below. The plugin is the better fit for day-to-day monitoring, and the MCP route is the fastest way to attach any MCP-capable agent.

Why monitor AI answers at all

Buyers now ask assistants for recommendations before they ask a search box. If ChatGPT names three vendors in your category and you are not one of them, you lose the deal before it starts. Tracking those answers is the core of AI search tracking and generative engine optimization. The OpenClaw integration puts that tracking one message away from your agent.

What the OpenClaw integration adds

The OpenClaw integration exposes seven tools. Each is backed by a cloro API endpoint that drives the real provider interface. Each returns the parsed response with the sources that engine cited.

Tool	What your agent gets back
cloro_chatgpt	ChatGPT’s actual answer plus the sources it cites
cloro_perplexity	Perplexity’s answer and citations
cloro_gemini	Gemini’s answer and citations
cloro_copilot	Microsoft Copilot’s answer and citations
cloro_aimode	Google AI Mode’s answer and citations
cloro_google	Google Search results, optionally with the AI Overview and its sources
cloro_google_news	Google News articles with titles, sources, and dates

Assistant tools versus search tools

Five of the tools query AI assistants directly. Those are cloro_chatgpt, cloro_perplexity, cloro_gemini, cloro_copilot, and cloro_aimode. Each takes a prompt and returns the assistant’s natural-language answer plus its citations. They are the right choice when you want to know what an assistant says about a topic.

The remaining two tools cover classic search. cloro_google returns the organic Google results and can also extract the AI Overview and its sources. cloro_google_news returns recent news articles with titles, publishers, and dates. Use these when you care about the ranked results or the news cycle rather than a synthesized answer.

Structured responses your agent can reason over

Every tool returns structured data, not a screenshot. Your agent gets the answer text and a list of cited sources with their titles and URLs. Because the shape is predictable, the agent can chain follow-up work in the same turn. It can compare how two assistants answer one prompt. It can extract every cited domain into a list. It can scan a batch of prompts for brand mentions and summarize what it found.

Installing the OpenClaw integration

Setting up the OpenClaw integration takes a few minutes. You need a running OpenClaw gateway and a cloro API key. The steps below assume you can run openclaw commands on the gateway host.

Prerequisites

First, make sure your OpenClaw gateway is installed and running. The cloro plugin registers its tools with that gateway, so the gateway has to be reachable. Second, get a cloro API key. Sign up at dashboard.cloro.dev, where free credits are included so you can test before you spend anything.

Install and enable the plugin

From the machine running your OpenClaw gateway, install and enable the plugin, then restart:

openclaw plugins install git:github.com/cloro-dev/openclaw-plugin
openclaw plugins enable cloro
openclaw gateway restart

The restart loads the seven tools into the running agent. After it comes back up, the tools are available to any conversation on that gateway.

Configure your API key

Set your key one of two ways. The simplest is an environment variable named CLORO_API_KEY. The alternative is a config block in openclaw.json, which also lets you set a default country for every call:

{
  "plugins": {
    "entries": {
      "cloro": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY",
          "defaultCountry": "us"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

The defaultCountry value is applied to any tool call that does not name a country of its own. The full walkthrough, with every config option and per-tool parameter, lives in the OpenClaw integration guide.

Verify it works

Ask your agent a simple monitoring question once the gateway is back up. Try “Ask ChatGPT what the best CRM for startups is and list the sources it cites.” If the agent returns an answer with a list of cited domains, the OpenClaw integration is live.

OpenClaw integration use cases

The OpenClaw integration is most useful when you turn a recurring question into a plain-language prompt. Below are the patterns teams reach for first.

Track your brand in AI answers

Ask the agent whether an assistant names your brand for the prompts your buyers use. “Does ChatGPT mention us when someone asks for the best SERP API?” is a one-line request. Run it across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot to see where you appear and where you are absent. This is the daily bread of a ChatGPT visibility tracker.

Watch Google AI Overviews

AI Overviews sit above the organic results and cite a handful of sources. Ask “Does the AI Overview for ai visibility tracking link to us, and who else does it cite?” The cloro_google tool returns the Overview and its sources so your agent can list every cited domain. For the wider picture, pair this with dedicated AI Overview tracking tools.

Measure share of voice against competitors

Point the agent at a list of category prompts and ask which vendors each assistant names most often. The result is a rough AI share of voice read: who dominates the answers, and by how much. Because responses are structured, the agent can tally mentions across a dozen prompts without you exporting anything.

Follow the news cycle

Use cloro_google_news to pull recent coverage of your brand or a competitor. “Summarize this week’s Google News coverage of our launch” returns dated articles the agent can condense into a briefing. This keeps a communications team ahead of stories instead of reacting to them.

Compare assistants side by side

Different engines cite different sources for the same question. Ask the agent to run one prompt through Perplexity and Copilot and diff the citations. The gaps show you which publications each engine trusts, which informs where to earn coverage.

OpenClaw MCP: connect without a plugin

If you would rather not install a plugin, OpenClaw’s MCP support connects your agent to cloro’s hosted MCP server instead. One command wires it up:

openclaw mcp add cloro \
  --url https://cloro.dev/docs/mcp \
  --transport streamable-http

The plugin remains the better fit for monitoring workflows. It gives you typed tools, a managed API key, and sensible defaults. The MCP route trades some of that convenience for speed. It gets an agent access to cloro’s documentation and API surface in a single command, and it works with any MCP-capable client, not just OpenClaw.

Plugin, MCP, or the raw API

All three call the same cloro backend. The plugin is the OpenClaw integration proper: typed tools and managed config. MCP is the portable option for agents outside OpenClaw. Calling the cloro API directly is best for scripts and pipelines that live outside an agent entirely. Pick the layer that matches where the work runs.

Geo-targeting in the OpenClaw integration

AI answers change by location. A buyer in Berlin and a buyer in Austin can get different recommendations for the same query. The OpenClaw integration bakes geo-targeting into every tool so you can test that variation.

Country-level targeting

Every tool accepts a country code. Set it per call, or set defaultCountry in openclaw.json so every call inherits it. “Does the AI Overview for project management software mention us in the US and in Germany?” becomes two calls with two country codes.

State and city precision

The assistant tools accept US state targeting for finer resolution within the country. The Google Search and AI Mode tools go further and accept a city-level location. That lets you ask what a searcher in a specific metro sees, which matters for local and regional categories.

OpenClaw integration pricing

The OpenClaw integration bills through cloro credits at the standard per-provider rates. There is no separate charge for using the plugin. You pay for the underlying API calls your agent makes.

How credits are charged

Each tool call costs 3 to 5 base credits per request. A +2 synchronous surcharge applies because the agent waits for the result in real time. Optional add-ons are billed on top. Those add-ons include AI Overview extraction, extra Google result pages, and US state targeting. Full rates are on the providers page.

A worked example

Say your agent runs one category prompt through ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to check brand mentions. That is three assistant calls. Each carries its base cost plus the synchronous surcharge. A quick daily check across a few engines stays inexpensive, and new accounts start with free credits to cover early testing.

When to skip the agent loop

Synchronous tool calls are ideal for ad-hoc questions. They are the wrong tool for tracking hundreds of prompts on a schedule. For high-volume monitoring, call cloro’s async batch API directly instead of looping agent tool calls. Batch runs avoid the synchronous surcharge and are built for scale.

Securing your OpenClaw integration

Your cloro API key is a credential, so treat it like one. The safest place for it is the CLORO_API_KEY environment variable on the gateway host, kept out of version control. If you use the openclaw.json config block instead, make sure that file is not committed to a public repository.

Because OpenClaw runs on infrastructure you control, the key never leaves your gateway. The plugin sends it only to the cloro API over HTTPS. Rotate the key from the dashboard if you suspect it has leaked, and scope usage with cloro’s credit balance so a runaway loop cannot spend without limit.

Troubleshooting the OpenClaw integration

Most setup issues come down to the gateway, the key, or provider availability. Here is what to check first.

The tools do not appear

If your agent cannot see the cloro tools, the gateway probably did not reload them. Confirm the plugin is enabled and restart the gateway with openclaw gateway restart. The seven tools register during startup, so a stale gateway will not expose them.

Calls fail with an auth error

An authentication failure means the key is missing or wrong. Check that CLORO_API_KEY is set on the gateway host, or that the apiKey value in openclaw.json is correct. A key from a different account will not work.

There is no Grok tool

The integration deliberately ships without a Grok tool. Grok blocked anonymous access upstream, so cloro’s Grok endpoint is temporarily unavailable. Rather than expose a tool that would always fail, the plugin omits it. It will return when the provider is reachable again.

Get started with the OpenClaw integration

The cloro OpenClaw integration turns AI search monitoring into a message you send your agent. Grab the plugin from cloro-dev/openclaw-plugin, read the integration guide, and point your agent at the AI search results you care about. If you are still deciding what to track, the AI brand visibility measurement framework is a good place to start.