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The services command helps you discover and explore available services that can be included in your OpenClaw stack.

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Subcommands

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list

List all available services with descriptions, categories, and maturity status. 
create-better-openclaw services list [options]

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Options

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--category
string
Filter services by category (e.g., database, ai, proxy, monitoring).
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--json
boolean
default:"false"
Output results as JSON for programmatic use.

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Examples

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List all services

create-better-openclaw services list
Output: 
Available Services (42):

  🗄️  Database
    postgres                 PostgreSQL relational database
    redis                    Redis in-memory data store
    mongodb                  MongoDB NoSQL database
    mysql                    MySQL relational database

  🤖 AI
    qdrant                   Qdrant vector database for embeddings
    ollama                   Ollama local LLM runtime
    llamacpp                 llama.cpp inference engine [beta]
    vllm                     vLLM high-throughput inference [beta]

  🔄 Proxy
    caddy                    Caddy reverse proxy with auto-SSL
    traefik                  Traefik reverse proxy
    nginx                    NGINX web server and reverse proxy

  📊 Monitoring
    prometheus               Prometheus metrics collection
    grafana                  Grafana visualization and dashboards
    loki                     Loki log aggregation [beta]

  ...

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Filter by category

create-better-openclaw services list --category database
Output: 
Available Services (6):

  🗄️  Database
    postgres                 PostgreSQL relational database
    redis                    Redis in-memory data store
    mongodb                  MongoDB NoSQL database
    mysql                    MySQL relational database
    mariadb                  MariaDB relational database
    cockroachdb              CockroachDB distributed SQL [beta]

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JSON output

create-better-openclaw services list --json
Output: 
{
  "services": [
    {
      "id": "postgres",
      "name": "PostgreSQL",
      "description": "PostgreSQL relational database",
      "category": "database",
      "icon": "🗄️",
      "image": "postgres:16-alpine",
      "maturity": "stable"
    },
    {
      "id": "qdrant",
      "name": "Qdrant",
      "description": "Qdrant vector database for embeddings",
      "category": "ai",
      "icon": "🤖",
      "image": "qdrant/qdrant:latest",
      "maturity": "stable"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    {"id": "database", "label": "Database", "icon": "🗄️"},
    {"id": "ai", "label": "AI", "icon": "🤖"},
    {"id": "proxy", "label": "Proxy", "icon": "🔄"},
    {"id": "monitoring", "label": "Monitoring", "icon": "📊"}
  ],
  "total": 42
}

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Service maturity levels

Services are tagged with maturity indicators:
  • stable - Production-ready, well-tested (default, no tag shown)
  • beta - Functional but may have rough edges
  • alpha - Experimental, not recommended for production

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Available categories

Common service categories include:
  • database - Relational and NoSQL databases
  • ai - AI inference engines and vector databases
  • proxy - Reverse proxies and load balancers
  • monitoring - Observability and monitoring tools
  • cache - Caching layers
  • queue - Message queues and task brokers
  • storage - Object storage and file systems
  • tools - Development and utility tools

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