Pinchy Documentation

What is Pinchy?

Pinchy is an enterprise layer on top of OpenClaw — the open-source AI agent runtime. OpenClaw is powerful for individual users. Pinchy adds what teams need: permissions, audit trails, user management, and governance.

We believe AI agents should run on your servers, with your data, under your control.

Current Status

Pinchy is in early development, but the core is working end-to-end. Shipped features include setup, authentication, provider configuration (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama local & cloud), agent chat via OpenClaw, agent permissions with defense in depth, knowledge base agents with PDF support, user management with invite-based onboarding, per-user and per-org context, the Smithers onboarding interview, a cryptographic audit trail, Telegram channels with account linking, a usage & costs dashboard, Web Search integration via Brave, Gmail integration via OAuth, Odoo ERP integration with 20+ pre-built agent templates, and a domain-lock security profile. We’re building the remaining enterprise features (granular RBAC with custom roles and per-resource permissions, plugin marketplace, additional channel integrations) next.

Quick Start

Get Pinchy running in 5 minutes with Docker Compose. Read the guide →

Installation

Environment variables, Docker volumes, and development setup. Full details →

Architecture

How Pinchy wraps OpenClaw, the request flow, and the tech stack. Learn more →

GitHub

Source code, issues, and discussions. View repository →