Prerequisites

Package manager needed for installing Docker, Node.js, and other tools.

Checks for git, curl, openssl, and ca-certificates.

OpenClaw requires Node.js 22 or higher.

OpenClaw requires Node.js 22 or higher.

Container isolation is the most impactful security improvement for OpenClaw.

Docker provides container isolation for OpenClaw.

Checks if OpenClaw is available via npm global install or npx.