# How to connect ActiveTrail to OpenClaw (paste one key, 159 tools) > Connect ActiveTrail to OpenClaw with ClawLink: paste your ActiveTrail key once and 159 tools work from chat. No MCP server to run, nothing stored on your machine. Web version: https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/active-trail The usual route to ActiveTrail access for OpenClaw is an MCP server you configure and keep running, plus your own OAuth app or API keys. ClawLink gives OpenClaw a more practical ActiveTrail setup: install one ClawHub skill, connect ActiveTrail in the browser, and OpenClaw can call real ActiveTrail actions from any chat surface with no auth, token refresh, or tool wiring to build yourself. **Start here:** install the ClawLink plugin (`openclaw plugins install clawhub:clawlink-plugin`), pair it in the browser, then connect the app in the ClawLink dashboard. The interactive install prompt is on the web version of this page: https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/active-trail ## Setup It takes three steps to connect OpenClaw to ActiveTrail. 1. **Install ClawLink** — add the plugin to OpenClaw once. 2. **Connect ActiveTrail** — one-click OAuth in the ClawLink dashboard. 3. **Use it from chat** — ask OpenClaw in plain English. **Alternative for any agent (no plugin needed):** if the OpenClaw plugin route isn't available or doesn't work, any AI agent with shell access can use the ClawLink CLI instead: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login # sign in via browser — no API key to paste npx -y @useclawlink/cli connect active-trail # connect ActiveTrail (browser OAuth) npx -y @useclawlink/cli actions active-trail # list available actions npx -y @useclawlink/cli run active-trail --input '' # execute (add --confirm for writes) ``` ### Install by command The setup prompt above does all of this in one paste. By hand, it is one install command plus a browser approval: ```bash openclaw plugins install clawhub:clawlink-plugin ``` Then ask OpenClaw to set up ClawLink. It starts browser pairing and prints an approval link — open it, approve the device, return to the chat, and say `done`. Finally, connect ActiveTrail in the [ClawLink dashboard](https://claw-link.dev/dashboard) — paste your ActiveTrail API key once. Verify the connection by asking OpenClaw: > Use ActiveTrail to add group member and walk me through the result in plain English. ### Using a different agent? The OpenClaw plugin is one client of ClawLink's MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent that can run a shell command pairs with the same ClawLink account through the CLI: ```bash npx -y @useclawlink/cli login ``` `login` opens the same browser approval and stores a credential locally. Once ActiveTrail is connected in the dashboard, that agent calls the same 159 ActiveTrail tools over MCP. Full setup for MCP clients and shell agents: [connect apps to any AI agent](https://claw-link.dev/learn/connect-apps-to-any-ai-agent). ## ActiveTrail MCP for OpenClaw Looking for a ActiveTrail MCP server for OpenClaw? ClawLink connects ActiveTrail to OpenClaw and exposes 159 ActiveTrail tools your agent can call over [MCP](https://claw-link.dev/learn/what-is-an-mcp-server), with [hosted auth](https://claw-link.dev/learn/oauth-for-ai-agents) and nothing to run or maintain yourself. Using Hermes instead? The [Hermes ActiveTrail integration](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/active-trail) works the same way. ## What the OpenClaw ActiveTrail integration can do 159 ActiveTrail tools are ready for OpenClaw once the account is connected. The 30 below are the ones people reach for most; your agent can call all 159. ### 30 of 159 ActiveTrail tools for OpenClaw | Tool | What it does | |---|---| | **Add group member** `active_trail_add_group_member` | Add a member to a group in ActiveTrail | | **Add mailinglist member** `active_trail_add_mailinglist_member` | Add a member to a mailing list in ActiveTrail | | **Contact growth** `active_trail_contact_growth` | Retrieves daily contact growth statistics showing active (subscribed) and inactive | | **Create a new group** `active_trail_create_a_new_group` | Creates a new contact group in ActiveTrail for organizing and segmenting contacts | | **Create campaign** `active_trail_create_campaign` | Create a new email campaign in ActiveTrail | | **Get account balance** `active_trail_get_account_balance` | Retrieve email and SMS credit balance for the account | | **Get account content categories2** `active_trail_get_account_content_categories2` | Retrieve specific category details by ID | | **Get account integrationdata** `active_trail_get_account_integrationdata` | Retrieves the account's ActiveCommerce integration configuration data including mailing list and group associations | | **Get account merge** `active_trail_get_account_merge` | Check if the ActiveTrail account has any pending account merge operations | | **Get all campaign reports** `active_trail_get_all_campaign_reports` | Retrieve a full overview of all campaign reports with comprehensive metrics | | **Get all groups** `active_trail_get_all_groups` | Retrieve the full list of account groups with pagination and filtering | | **Get all sent campaigns** `active_trail_get_all_sent_campaigns` | Retrieve campaigns with optional filtering by date, mailing list, and search criteria | | **Get automation log** `active_trail_get_automation_log` | Track contacts through automation journey by retrieving detailed logs | | **Get automation reports log automation queue** `active_trail_get_automation_reports_log_automation_queue` | Retrieve contacts that did not finish a specific automation | | **Get automation reports sms campaign summary** `active_trail_get_automation_reports_sms_campaign_summary` | Retrieve SMS campaigns' summary reports for a specific automation | | **Get automation reports summary report** `active_trail_get_automation_reports_summary_report` | Retrieve email campaigns' summary reports for a specific automation | | **Get automation trigger types** `active_trail_get_automation_trigger_types` | Retrieve all available start trigger options for automations | | **Get automations** `active_trail_get_automations` | List account automations with filtering and pagination | | **Get automations details** `active_trail_get_automations_details` | Retrieve detailed configuration of a specific automation excluding step-by-step execution | | **Get automations email campaign steps** `active_trail_get_automations_email_campaign_steps` | Retrieve all email campaign steps in an automation workflow | | **Get automations sms campaign steps** `active_trail_get_automations_sms_campaign_steps` | Retrieve all SMS campaign steps in an automation workflow | | **Get campaign bounces** `active_trail_get_campaign_bounces` | Retrieve bounce details by domain for a specific campaign | | **Get campaign clicks** `active_trail_get_campaign_clicks` | Retrieves detailed click-through data for all links in a campaign or optionally for a specific | | **Get campaign design** `active_trail_get_campaign_design` | Retrieve campaign design configuration including visual layout and HTML content | | **Get campaign domains report** `active_trail_get_campaign_domains_report` | Retrieve a report by domain for a specific campaign | | **Get campaign opens** `active_trail_get_campaign_opens` | Retrieve contacts who opened a specific campaign email | | **Get campaign report** `active_trail_get_campaign_report` | Retrieves comprehensive performance metrics for a specific email campaign by its ID | | **Get campaign reports bounced** `active_trail_get_campaign_reports_bounced` | Retrieve bounced email details filtered by bounce type for a specific campaign | | **Get campaign reports complaints** `active_trail_get_campaign_reports_complaints` | Retrieve contacts who reported a specific campaign as spam | | **Get campaign reports email activity** `active_trail_get_campaign_reports_email_activity` | Retrieve all contacts' activity on a specific campaign | ## Example prompts **Add Group Member** > Use ActiveTrail to add group member and walk me through the result in plain English. **Add Mailinglist Member** > Use ActiveTrail to add mailinglist member and walk me through the result in plain English. **Contact Growth** > Use ActiveTrail to contact growth and walk me through the result in plain English. **Create A New Group** > Create it in ActiveTrail for me, then confirm the important fields before you finish. ## ClawLink vs. building it yourself The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for OpenClaw. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want ActiveTrail working from chat. | | Manual | ClawLink | |---|---|---| | **Credential handling** | Collect, validate, store, and rotate the ActiveTrail API key yourself, then make sure every tool call uses the right account. | Users complete the hosted ClawLink setup once and the connected ActiveTrail account becomes available to the agent without you building credential management. | | **Ongoing maintenance** | You own refresh logic, permission debugging, environment config, and every provider-specific edge case for ActiveTrail. | ClawLink handles the repetitive integration plumbing so your team can focus on the workflow instead of the infrastructure. | | **Agent usability** | You still need to expose the right ActiveTrail actions to the runtime in a format your agent can reliably use. | 159 tools for ActiveTrail are already exposed through ClawLink, so the agent can read and act from chat immediately. | ## ClawLink vs. Composio Composio also exposes ActiveTrail to AI agents. It is developer infrastructure: Python and TypeScript SDKs, an MCP server, and a catalog past 1,000 apps, aimed at teams shipping agent products. ClawLink is built for OpenClaw users instead. You install the plugin once, connect ActiveTrail in the browser, and the 159 tools above work from chat. There is no SDK and no config file, and the ActiveTrail key you paste at setup is stored server-side rather than kept in your environment. Choosing between them? Read the full [Composio alternatives](https://claw-link.dev/hub/composio-alternatives) comparison. ### OpenClaw installed the ActiveTrail skill but can't call the tools The ClawHub skill teaches OpenClaw about ActiveTrail, but the calls run through the ClawLink plugin and your connected account. Make sure ActiveTrail is connected in the dashboard, then start a fresh chat so OpenClaw reloads the tool catalog. If OpenClaw runs as a persistent gateway, restart it so the new tools register. ### Connection succeeds but no tools appear Reconnect ActiveTrail from the dashboard, then start a fresh chat if the runtime still has the old tool catalog loaded. ### "Tool schema not loaded yet" error when calling ActiveTrail tools ActiveTrail tool schemas load on demand the first time a tool runs and are cached after that, so this error usually clears on its own: wait a few seconds and retry the same request. If every ActiveTrail call keeps failing with it in a fresh chat, reconnect from the dashboard, and contact support if it still persists — that pattern points to a configuration problem on our side, not something you can fix by reconnecting again. ### ActiveTrail returns 403 or "permission denied" on one action while others work Two usual causes. The connected account may not have access to the specific workspace, inbox, store, or project in the request — check that first. If access looks right, the agent may have sent a placeholder value (like "YOUR_ID" or an example id from documentation) instead of a real one: ask it to run a list or search tool first, then retry the action with a real id from those results. Most failures at this stage are one of these two, not ClawLink bugs. ### API key setup works but results look incomplete Double-check that the API key for ActiveTrail has the right scopes or account access. A valid key can still be too limited for some reads or writes. ### Is there a OpenClaw ActiveTrail integration? Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect OpenClaw to ActiveTrail: link your ActiveTrail account once in the browser and OpenClaw can call the ActiveTrail API through 159 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling. ### How do I add ActiveTrail to OpenClaw with ClawLink? Paste the setup prompt from this page into OpenClaw. It installs the ClawLink ActiveTrail skill from ClawHub, then you click Connect in the dashboard to authorize ActiveTrail. OpenClaw calls the tools from the next message — no config files, and the ActiveTrail key you paste is stored server-side instead of in your environment. ### How long does it take to connect ActiveTrail to OpenClaw? About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to ActiveTrail in the dashboard, authenticate, and OpenClaw can use it from the next chat message. ### Why use ClawLink instead of wiring ActiveTrail up myself? The alternative to ClawLink is usually manual API key setup plus your own token handling, permission troubleshooting, and tool plumbing for OpenClaw. That is fine if you want to build and maintain the integration yourself. Most teams just want ActiveTrail working from chat. ### OpenClaw installed the ActiveTrail skill but can't call the tools The ClawHub skill teaches OpenClaw about ActiveTrail, but the calls run through the ClawLink plugin and your connected account. Make sure ActiveTrail is connected in the dashboard, then start a fresh chat so OpenClaw reloads the tool catalog. If OpenClaw runs as a persistent gateway, restart it so the new tools register. ## Related - [ActiveCampaign tools](https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/activecampaign) — Marketing automation, CRM, and email marketing - [Benchmark Email tools](https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/benchmark-email) — Benchmark Email is a comprehensive email marketing platform offering tools for creating, sending, and analyzing email campaigns. - [Mailchimp](https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/mailchimp) — Create email campaigns and manage audiences