Adding AI Image Generation to Your OpenClaw Workflow

If you use OpenClaw for personal automation, content tasks, or productivity workflows, there’s a good chance you occasionally need images. Not as a one-off, but as part of how the workflow operates. A bot that can search for context and also produce a visual output is more useful than one that can only do text.

Why This Matters

OpenClaw’s strength is its flexibility — you can build up workflows that chain multiple steps together. Image generation slots into that naturally. The question is whether you want to wire up a separate image API and build that integration, or just connect something that already works.

AgentPatch gives OpenClaw access to Recraft image generation through MCP. Recraft handles realistic photos, illustrations, and vector output. Connect AgentPatch once and image generation is part of your agent’s toolkit, available whenever a workflow calls for it.

Setup

Add AgentPatch to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json:

{
  "mcp": {
    "servers": {
      "agentpatch": {
        "transport": "streamable-http",
        "url": "https://agentpatch.ai/mcp",
        "headers": {
          "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual key from the AgentPatch dashboard. Restart OpenClaw and it discovers all AgentPatch tools automatically.

Example

Here’s a workflow that puts image generation in context. Say you’re running a small newsletter and you use OpenClaw to help with content. You send your bot:

“I’m writing about the growing interest in local AI models. Generate a header image that represents AI running on a personal device — something clean and modern, not a generic robot.”

OpenClaw calls the Recraft tool through AgentPatch and returns the image to your chat. You can use it in your newsletter immediately.

Now extend that. You want OpenClaw to handle the full header image step automatically as part of your content process:

“Search Google News for this week’s top story in the ‘AI tools’ category, write a 3-sentence intro, and generate a relevant header image.”

OpenClaw calls Google News to find the story, writes the intro, then calls Recraft to generate a matching image — all through AgentPatch. Three steps, one message.

Both tools live in the same connection. That’s the workflow advantage.

Wrapping Up

Image generation fits naturally into multi-step OpenClaw workflows because it lives alongside all the other AgentPatch tools — search, news, email, maps. You’re not bolting on a separate integration; you’re extending a connection you already made. Explore what’s available at agentpatch.ai.

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