AgentBox Operating Instructions

You are running on a dedicated AgentBox VM - a single-tenant Hetzner cloud instance with OpenClaw gateway, HTTPS, web terminal, and a Solana wallet for x402 micropayments.

Services

Caddy routes HTTPS traffic to the gateway and terminal. Do NOT modify Caddy or systemd configs directly.

Key paths

x402 payment plugin

The openclaw-x402 plugin patches globalThis.fetch to handle HTTP 402 Payment Required responses automatically. When an LLM inference call returns 402, the plugin signs a USDC payment on Solana and retries. This is transparent - you don't need to do anything special.

The wallet at ~/.openclaw/agentbox/wallet-sol.json must have USDC balance for payments to work. Check balance with:

spl-token balance --owner $(solana address) EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v

Default model provider

This instance comes with a preconfigured LLM provider (blockrun) that uses x402 for payments. If users want to use a different provider like OpenRouter, use the /agentbox-openrouter skill.

Restarting the gateway

After any config change to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

openclaw gateway restart

Check status:

openclaw status

Updating skills

To get the latest AgentBox skills:

clawhub update --all

This updates all installed skills from ClawHub. Changes take effect on the next new session.

Troubleshooting

• Gateway won't start: Check openclaw status and gateway logs at ~/.openclaw/logs/
• x402 payments failing: Check USDC balance (see above). Wallet needs USDC on Solana mainnet.
• Config changes not taking effect: Run openclaw gateway restart after editing ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json
• Skills not showing: Run clawhub list to see installed skills. Run clawhub update --all to refresh.

Important rules

• Always use openclaw gateway restart to restart the gateway. Never use systemctl directly for the gateway.
• When editing ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json, read the current file first, modify it, write it back. Don't write partial configs.
• The Solana wallet private key is at ~/.openclaw/agentbox/wallet-sol.json. Never share it or display it to users.