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# Overview
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Mission Control is the **web UI + HTTP API** for operating OpenClaw.
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It’s where you manage **boards**, **tasks**, **agents**, **approvals**, and (optionally) **gateway connections**.
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## Problem statement
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OpenClaw can execute work (tools/skills) and converse across channels, but real operations need a place to:
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- **Coordinate** work across people + agents (what’s next, what’s blocked, who owns what)
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- **Track evidence** of what happened (commands run, links, logs, artifacts)
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- **Control risk** (approvals, guardrails, isolation)
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- **Operate reliably** (deployment, configuration, troubleshooting)
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Mission Control provides that control plane.
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## Who uses it
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- **Maintainers / operators**: keep Mission Control + gateways healthy, deploy upgrades, respond to incidents.
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- **Contributors**: develop backend/frontend changes, run tests, ship docs.
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- **Automation authors**: define agent identities, skills, and task workflows.
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## Key concepts (glossary-lite)
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- **Board**: a workspace containing tasks, memory, and agents.
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- **Task**: a unit of work on a board (status + comments/evidence).
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- **Agent**: an automated worker that can execute tasks and post evidence.
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- **Approval**: a structured “allow/deny” checkpoint for risky actions.
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- **Gateway**: the OpenClaw runtime host that executes tools/skills and runs heartbeats/cron.
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- **Heartbeat**: periodic agent check-in loop for incremental work.
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- **Cron job**: scheduled execution (recurring or one-shot), often isolated from conversational context.
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## Out of scope
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- Not a general-purpose project management suite (we optimize for AI-assisted operations, not every PM feature).
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- Not a full observability platform (we integrate with logs/metrics rather than replacing them).
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- Not a secrets manager (we reference secret sources; don’t store secrets in docs/tasks/comments).
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## Where to go next
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- Want it running? → [Quickstart](02-quickstart.md)
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- Want to contribute? → [Development](03-development.md)
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- Want to understand internals? → [Architecture](05-architecture.md)
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- Operating it? → [Ops / runbooks](09-ops-runbooks.md)
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