You just pointed Claude at your company's monorepo -- 2,400 files, 380,000 lines of code, six microservices, a shared library, and a frontend that nobody fully understands anymore -- and asked it...
You've decided to run OpenClaw on a VPS. Good instinct—it's powerful, flexible, and you're in control. But here's the catch: you can't just spin up a container and walk away.
Here's the thing nobody warns you about when they hand you access to Claude's Google Drive connector: it's not a magic "read my entire Drive and tell me what's important" button.
You know that feeling when you're twenty browser tabs deep into a research rabbit hole, half your sources contradict each other, and you've lost track of which claim came from where? Yeah.
You're probably juggling six different apps right now. Email client. Calendar app. Notes app for tasks. Slack or Teams for communication. A research tool or browser extension.
Your agent needs to call external APIs. It needs to authenticate to GitHub, Slack, cloud providers, internal services. So you create an API key, drop it into a .env file, and move on.