Ably is a real-time messaging platform helping developers build live features, including chat and data synchronization, with global scalability and robust reliability for modern applications.

Use it from your agent

One ClawLink account serves every agent you run. Pick the guide for yours, or connect Ably once and call the same tools from all of them.

Ably for OpenClawInstall, pair, connect, first prompt

Ably for Hermes AgentInstall, pair, connect, first prompt MCPClaude Code, Cursor, any MCP clientCLI login or the remote MCP server

Setup

Connect Ably through ClawLink's hosted setup.

Auth: Paste one API key. The credential stays on the ClawLink server; your agent holds only a ClawLink key you can revoke.
Where: the ClawLink dashboard, or ask your agent to connect it.

What your agent can do

Ably exposes 25 tools through ClawLink. The 24 most used are listed here; your agent sees all of them.

Tool	What it does	Kind
`ably_batch_presence`	Enables querying the presence states of multiple channels in a single API request	Read
`ably_batch_presence_history`	Enables querying presence history for multiple channels in a single API request	Read
`ably_get_channel_details`	Retrieves metadata and details for a specific channel in Ably	Read
`ably_get_channel_history`	Retrieves the message history for a specified Ably channel	Read
`ably_get_channel_presence`	Obtain the set of members currently present for a channel	Read
`ably_get_message_versions`	Retrieve all historical versions of a specific message from an Ably channel	Read
`ably_get_presence_history`	Retrieves the history of presence messages for a specified channel in Ably	Read
`ably_get_push_device`	Get the full details of a device registration for push notifications	Read
`ably_get_service_time`	Retrieves the current server time from Ably's service in milliseconds since the epoch	Read
`ably_get_stats`	Retrieves your application's usage statistics from Ably	Read
`ably_list_channels`	Enumerate all active channels in the Ably application	Read
`ably_list_push_channel_subscriptions`	Retrieves a list of all push notification channel subscriptions	Read
`ably_list_push_channels`	List all channels with at least one subscribed device	Read
`ably_list_registered_push_devices`	List all devices registered for receiving push notifications in your Ably application	Read
`ably_patch_push_device_registration`	Partially update specific attributes of an existing device registration in Ably's push	Read
`ably_publish_batch_messages`	Batch publish messages to multiple channels in parallel	Write
`ably_publish_message_to_channel`	Will allow users to publish a message to a specified Ably channel using a POST request	Write
`ably_publish_push_notification`	Publish a push notification directly to device(s) via Ably's Push Notifications API	Write
`ably_publish_push_notifications_batch`	Batch publish push notifications directly to specific recipients	Write
`ably_register_push_device`	Register a device for receiving push notifications in Ably	Read
`ably_request_access_token`	Request an access token for Ably authentication	Read
`ably_update_push_device`	Update (upsert) a device registration for push notifications in Ably	Write
`ably_unregister_all_push_devices`	Unregister matching devices for push notifications	Read
`ably_unregister_push_device`	Unregister a single device from push notifications in Ably	Read