# How to connect Faraday to OpenClaw (paste one key, 117 tools)

> Connect Faraday to OpenClaw with ClawLink: paste your Faraday key once and 117 tools work from chat. No MCP server to run, nothing stored on your machine.

Web version: https://claw-link.dev/openclaw/faraday

The usual route to Faraday 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 Faraday setup: install one ClawHub skill, connect Faraday in the browser, and OpenClaw can call real Faraday 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/faraday

## Setup

It takes three steps to connect OpenClaw to Faraday.

1. **Install ClawLink** — add the plugin to OpenClaw once.
2. **Connect Faraday** — 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 faraday  # connect Faraday (browser OAuth)
npx -y @useclawlink/cli actions faraday  # list available actions
npx -y @useclawlink/cli run faraday <action> --input '<json>'  # 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 Faraday in the [ClawLink dashboard](https://claw-link.dev/dashboard) — paste your Faraday API key once.

Verify the connection by asking OpenClaw:

> Before using Faraday to archive cohort, show me what will change and ask for confirmation.

### 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 Faraday is connected in the dashboard, that agent calls the same 117 Faraday 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).

## Faraday MCP for OpenClaw

Looking for a Faraday MCP server for OpenClaw? ClawLink connects Faraday to OpenClaw and exposes 117 Faraday 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 Faraday integration](https://claw-link.dev/hermes/faraday) works the same way.

## What the OpenClaw Faraday integration can do

117 Faraday 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 117.

### 30 of 117 Faraday tools for OpenClaw

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Archive cohort** `faraday_archive_cohort` | Archive a cohort in Faraday |
| **Archive connection** `faraday_archive_connection` | Archive a connection in Faraday |
| **Archive dataset** `faraday_archive_dataset` | Archive a dataset in Faraday |
| **Archive outcome** `faraday_archive_outcome` | Archive an outcome in Faraday |
| **Get account** `faraday_get_account` | Retrieve detailed information about a Faraday account by its UUID |
| **Get accounts** `faraday_get_accounts` | List all Faraday accounts accessible by the current user |
| **Get accounts billing** `faraday_get_accounts_billing` | Get billing information about your account |
| **Get cohort** `faraday_get_cohort` | Retrieve a specific cohort by ID |
| **Get cohort analysis membership** `faraday_get_cohort_analysis_membership` | Get cohort membership counts over time for a specific cohort |
| **Get cohorts** `faraday_get_cohorts` | List all cohorts in your Faraday account |
| **Get connection datasets** `faraday_get_connection_datasets` | Retrieve all datasets that use a specific connection |
| **Get connections targets** `faraday_get_connections_targets` | Retrieve all targets that use a specific connection |
| **Get current account** `faraday_get_current_account` | Retrieve the current account information |
| **Get current account billing** `faraday_get_current_account_billing` | Retrieve billing information about the current account |
| **Get dataset** `faraday_get_dataset` | Retrieve a dataset by its UUID |
| **Get datasets logs ingress** `faraday_get_datasets_logs_ingress` | Retrieve dataset ingress metrics over time |
| **Get feature stores** `faraday_get_feature_stores` | List all feature stores |
| **Get graph** `faraday_get_graph` | Retrieve the complete dependency graph for all resources on an account |
| **Get market opportunity analyses** `faraday_get_market_opportunity_analyses` | Retrieve all market opportunity analyses from Faraday |
| **Get outcome** `faraday_get_outcome` | Retrieve an outcome by its ID |
| **Get outcomes** `faraday_get_outcomes` | List all outcomes for the account |
| **Get persona set** `faraday_get_persona_set` | Retrieve a persona set by its UUID |
| **Get persona set analysis flow** `faraday_get_persona_set_analysis_flow` | Retrieve the flow of persona sets over time, showing how individuals move between different |
| **Get persona sets** `faraday_get_persona_sets` | List all persona sets |
| **Get persona sets analysis dimensions** `faraday_get_persona_sets_analysis_dimensions` | Get various trait breakdown information about a persona set |
| **Get place** `faraday_get_place` | Retrieve a specific place by its UUID |
| **Get places** `faraday_get_places` | List all places in Faraday |
| **Get recommenders** `faraday_get_recommenders` | List all recommenders |
| **Get scope** `faraday_get_scope` | Retrieve detailed information about a Faraday scope by its UUID |
| **Get scope analysis** `faraday_get_scope_analysis` | Get analysis for a scope including outcomes and recommenders with probability distributions |

## Example prompts

**Archive Cohort**

> Before using Faraday to archive cohort, show me what will change and ask for confirmation.

**Archive Connection**

> Before using Faraday to archive connection, show me what will change and ask for confirmation.

**Archive Dataset**

> Before using Faraday to archive dataset, show me what will change and ask for confirmation.

**Archive Outcome**

> Before using Faraday to archive outcome, show me what will change and ask for confirmation.

## 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 Faraday working from chat.

| | Manual | ClawLink |
|---|---|---|
| **Credential handling** | Collect, validate, store, and rotate the Faraday API key yourself, then make sure every tool call uses the right account. | Users complete the hosted ClawLink setup once and the connected Faraday 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 Faraday. | 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 Faraday actions to the runtime in a format your agent can reliably use. | 117 tools for Faraday are already exposed through ClawLink, so the agent can read and act from chat immediately. |

## ClawLink vs. Composio

Composio also exposes Faraday 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 Faraday in the browser, and the 117 tools above work from chat. There is no SDK and no config file, and the Faraday 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 Faraday skill but can't call the tools
The ClawHub skill teaches OpenClaw about Faraday, but the calls run through the ClawLink plugin and your connected account. Make sure Faraday 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 Faraday 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 Faraday tools
Faraday 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 Faraday 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.

### Faraday 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 Faraday has the right scopes or account access. A valid key can still be too limited for some reads or writes.

### Is there a OpenClaw Faraday integration?
Yes. ClawLink is the fastest way to connect OpenClaw to Faraday: link your Faraday account once in the browser and OpenClaw can call the Faraday API through 117 ready-made tools — no custom code or token handling.

### How do I add Faraday to OpenClaw with ClawLink?
Paste the setup prompt from this page into OpenClaw. It installs the ClawLink Faraday skill from ClawHub, then you click Connect in the dashboard to authorize Faraday. OpenClaw calls the tools from the next message — no config files, and the Faraday key you paste is stored server-side instead of in your environment.

### How long does it take to connect Faraday to OpenClaw?
About two minutes. Sign in, click Connect next to Faraday in the dashboard, authenticate, and OpenClaw can use it from the next chat message.

### Why use ClawLink instead of wiring Faraday 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 Faraday working from chat.

### OpenClaw installed the Faraday skill but can't call the tools
The ClawHub skill teaches OpenClaw about Faraday, but the calls run through the ClawLink plugin and your connected account. Make sure Faraday 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.

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