Choose a plugin
Choose Google Meet when you need meeting creation, Google API artifacts, or a Twilio phone path. Choose Teams or Zoom for direct browser guest participation on those platforms. The Teams and Zoom plugins do not create meetings, dial in, call the vendor API, or capture audio/video recordings.
Choose a mode
The three plugins share the same modes:
Use
transcribe when the agent only needs meeting text. Use agent for normal OpenClaw reasoning and tools. Use bidi when low-latency direct voice is more important than routing each turn through the regular agent.
The bounded live transcript remains available only in transcribe mode. In all
three modes, browser joins also persist completed caption rows and a derived
summary to the shared state database. Leaving the meeting finalizes visible
captions and writes the summary; use openclaw transcripts
to list, inspect, or export it. This durable notes path does not change the live
agent-consult transcript or create an audio/video recording.
Automatic notes are on by default. Set transcripts.enabled: false to disable
durable notes globally. An explicitly selected transcribe session retains its
bounded live-caption tail without writing durable rows. Caption availability
still depends on the meeting platform, account, language, and host policy.
Prepare Chrome and audio
Chrome can run on the Gateway host or on a paired node. A remote Chrome node must allowbrowser.proxy plus the platform command:
For
agent or bidi mode through Chrome, run Chrome on macOS and install the shared audio dependencies on that same host:
agent mode, or a realtime voice provider for bidi mode. The platform guides contain the provider and audio-command options.
Install or disable plugins
Install Google Meet separately; it is enabled by default after installation. Teams meetings and Zoom are included with OpenClaw and enabled by default:Verify and join
Treat any failed setup check as a blocker for that transport and mode. For an observe-only smoke test, select
transcribe mode and confirm that status reports an in-call session before expecting caption text.
For talk-back smoke tests, verified speech requires more than bytes accepted by the playback command. The shared command-pair bridge correlates a bounded waveform fingerprint from the current output generation with audio returning on the BlackHole microphone capture path; Google Meet, Teams, and Zoom do not report speechOutputVerified: true when only the output-byte counter advances or unrelated participant audio is present.
Handle platform policy prompts
Browser automation handles the normal guest-name, prejoin camera and microphone, join, in-call, and leave controls. It does not bypass platform or organizer policy.- Google Meet may require Google sign-in, host admission, or a browser permission decision.
- Microsoft Teams may require tenant sign-in, email verification, or organizer admission.
- Zoom may require authentication, email verification, a passcode, CAPTCHA completion, or host admission; an account can also disable browser join.
manualAction, complete its reported step in the same OpenClaw Chrome profile before retrying. Repeatedly opening new tabs does not resolve an account, tenant, lobby, or CAPTCHA gate.
Only join meetings where the operator is authorized to add an agent. Tell participants when local policy or consent rules require disclosure of automated participation, transcription, or synthesized speech.