Send and receive WhatsApp messages via Business API. Automate customer and team messaging.
Details
WhatsApp skill integrates with WhatsApp Business API so your agent can send and receive messages. Suited for support, notifications, and conversational flows.
When to use
Use when the agent must communicate over WhatsApp. Requires WhatsApp Business API access; good for support and high-engagement channels.
How WhatsApp fits into your OpenClaw setup
Communication skills widen the set of places your assistant can listen and speak. OpenClaw already meets you in chat; skills like WhatsApp extend that reach to additional channels, inboxes, and messaging surfaces so nothing important needs you to be the relay.
What working with it looks like
Once WhatsApp is connected and authorised, the assistant can summarise what arrived, draft replies for your approval, or route messages to the right place automatically. Most people start in a supervised mode — the assistant proposes, you approve — and hand over more autonomy as trust builds.
Installing WhatsApp
Installation follows the standard ClawHub flow. From your OpenClaw directory, run the install command below, then restart your assistant so the new capability registers. If the skill needs credentials or API access, its README will say so — set those up before the first use.
Then test it. Ask the assistant for something small that exercises the new skill end to end. Skills fail in two ways — not registered, or registered but misconfigured — and a quick first request tells you immediately which situation you are in, if either.
clawhub install whatsappGetting the most out of it
No skill does its best work alone. The assistant routinely chains WhatsApp with other installed capabilities — gathering context with one skill, acting with another, reporting with a third — without being asked to. That is why it pays to choose skills as a toolkit rather than one at a time: each addition makes the others more capable.
If you would rather skip the trial and error, that is exactly what we do. We install and configure OpenClaw, select and tune skills like WhatsApp for your workflow, and build custom skills where the catalogue falls short.