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

Why this exists

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.

Quick start

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.

Give your agent the full context

Run this to get the complete development 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:

What's included

• 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

Commands reference

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

Example: Stripe webhook handler

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 for autonomous agents

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.

Resources

• 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

License

MIT

Your agent writes the code. Codehooks runs it.