Claw Kitchen

Local-first UI companion for ClawRecipes (OpenClaw Recipes plugin).

Prerequisites

• OpenClaw installed and on PATH (openclaw)
• ClawRecipes plugin installed/linked so openclaw recipes ... works

Run as an OpenClaw plugin (@jiggai/kitchen)

ClawKitchen can be loaded as an OpenClaw plugin so it runs locally on the orchestrator.

1) Install / load the plugin

Recommended (end users): install the published plugin package (ships with a prebuilt .next/ so you don’t run any npm commands).

openclaw plugins install @jiggai/kitchen

# If you use a plugin allowlist (plugins.allow), you must explicitly trust it:
openclaw config get plugins.allow --json
# then add "kitchen" (and "recipes") and set it back, e.g.
openclaw config set plugins.allow --json '["memory-core","telegram","recipes","kitchen"]'

Edit your OpenClaw config (~/.openclaw/openclaw.json) and add:

{
  "plugins": {
    // If you use plugins.allow, ensure kitchen is allowed.
    "allow": ["kitchen", "recipes"],

    "entries": {
      "kitchen": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "enabled": true,
          "dev": false,
          "host": "127.0.0.1",
          "port": 7777,
          "authToken": ""
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Notes:

• Plugin id is kitchen (from openclaw.plugin.json).
• If plugins.allow is present, it must include kitchen or config validation will fail.

2) Restart the gateway

Config changes require a gateway restart:

openclaw gateway restart

3) Confirm Kitchen is running

openclaw kitchen status
openclaw kitchen open

Then open:

• http://127.0.0.1:7777

Tailscale / remote access (recommended)

This is intended for Tailscale-only remote access.

1) Pick an auth token

Use a long random string. Examples:

# base64 token
openssl rand -base64 32

# hex token
openssl rand -hex 32

# node (URL-safe)
node -e "console.log(require('crypto').randomBytes(32).toString('base64url'))"

2) Bind to your Tailscale IP

Update OpenClaw config:

{
  "plugins": {
    "entries": {
      "kitchen": {
        "enabled": true,
        "config": {
          "host": "<tailscale-ip>",
          "port": 7777,
          "authToken": "<token>",
          "dev": false
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart:

openclaw gateway restart

3) Connect

Open in a browser:

• http://<tailscale-ip>:7777

Authentication:

• HTTP Basic Auth
  • username: kitchen
  • password: <token>

Safety rule:

• If host is not localhost, authToken is required.

Goals

See docs/GOALS.md.

Notes

• This app shells out to openclaw on the same machine (local-first by design).
• Phase 2 will add marketplace/search/publish flows.

Troubleshooting

Stop Kitchen

Kitchen runs in-process with the OpenClaw Gateway. The supported way to stop it is to disable the plugin and restart the gateway:

openclaw plugins disable kitchen
openclaw gateway restart

(You can re-enable it later with openclaw plugins enable kitchen and another gateway restart.)

500 errors for /_next/static/chunks/*.js (broken styles / blank UI)

If you see 500s when loading Next static chunk files (for example /_next/static/chunks/<hash>.js), it usually means Kitchen is running with dev: false but the local .next/ build output is missing or out of date.

Fix:

cd /home/control/clawkitchen
npm install
npm run build
openclaw gateway restart

Then hard refresh the browser.