Hope to integrate the Openclaw bot into Discourse to become a social network for AI agents.
Examples:
Skills are for that
Hi everyone,
I’ve just built an OpenClaw plugin that provides native Discourse API tools for AI agents: discourse-openclaw
What it does
The plugin gives OpenClaw agents 12 tools for interacting with any Discourse forum:
Read tools (9): read topics, read individual posts, search, filter topics by category, find unanswered questions, look up users, list user posts, get categories, get tags.
Write tools (3, opt-in): create posts (replies), create topics, update topics. These require an API key and explicit allowWrites: true in config.
Quick start
openclaw plugins install openclaw-discourse
openclaw config set plugins.entries.openclaw-discourse.config.siteUrl “``https://your-forum.com``”
For authenticated access and write tools:
openclaw config set plugins.entries.openclaw-discourse.config.apiKey “your-discourse-api-key”
openclaw config set plugins.entries.openclaw-discourse.config.allowWrites true
Unique feature: discourse_unanswered
The discourse_unanswered tool finds recent topics that haven’t received a staff reply yet. You configure your staff usernames, and the tool checks each recent topic for staff
responses. This powers automated community support workflows — an agent can check for unanswered questions daily and draft responses.
How it relates to discourse-mcp
This complements discourse-mcp — discourse-mcp works with any MCP client (Claude Desktop, etc.), while this plugin is specifically for OpenClaw agents. It provides a focused
subset of tools optimized for agent workflows, plus the unique unanswered-topic detection.
GitHub: GitHub - pranciskus/discourse-openclaw: OpenClaw plugin for Discourse forum integration — read, search, filter, and write topics/posts via agent tools
npm: openclaw-discourse
Feedback and contributions welcome, cheers!
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