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Give your OpenClaw AI assistant cloud computers powered by Lightcone.

Use Lightcone with OpenClaw to give your AI assistant cloud computers that Northstar can see and operate. Ask your assistant to browse the web, fill forms, extract data, and automate multi-step workflows — from WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, or any connected channel.

Install

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Terminal window
openclaw plugins install @tzafon/openclaw-lightcone
openclaw plugins enable lightcone
openclaw config set env.TZAFON_API_KEY "sk_..."

Allow the Lightcone tools for your agent:

Terminal window
openclaw config set tools.allow '["lightcone_browse", "lightcone_session_create", "lightcone_session_action", "lightcone_session_close"]'

Restart the gateway to load the plugin.

Example

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Once installed, message your OpenClaw agent:

“Go to news.ycombinator.com and tell me the top 3 stories”

The agent calls lightcone_browse, which creates a cloud computer, has Northstar navigate to the page, read the screen, and return the content with a screenshot.

Tools

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The plugin provides four tools at two levels of abstraction:

High-level — describe what you want done and Northstar operates a cloud computer to complete it:

  • lightcone_browse — give it a natural language instruction and an optional starting URL

Low-level — create a cloud computer and send actions directly:

  • lightcone_session_create — create a cloud computer (browser or desktop)
  • lightcone_session_action — send actions: click, type, scroll, navigate, screenshot
  • lightcone_session_close — shut down the computer

The plugin also ships two skills (lightcone-browse and lightcone-session) that teach the agent when and how to use these tools.

How it works

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The lightcone_browse tool runs a full computer-use loop under the hood:

  1. Creates a Lightcone cloud computer
  2. Takes a screenshot and sends it to Northstar via the Responses API
  3. Northstar sees the screen and decides what to do — click, type, scroll, navigate
  4. The plugin executes the action and feeds the next screenshot back
  5. Repeats until Northstar reports the task is done
  6. Returns the final page content and a screenshot to the OpenClaw agent

The session tools (lightcone_session_*) give you direct control over each step instead.

Resources

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See also

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  • Run a task — use Lightcone’s Tasks API directly
  • Computers — create and control cloud computers via the API
  • MCP Server — expose Lightcone as tools via Model Context Protocol