How to Build AI Agents with OpenClaw and Venice API

Venice now has official skills on OpenClaw, making it easy to build private AI agents with access to 30+ models, web search, audio, and media generation—all with zero data retention.

What You Get

venice-ai Skill

The core Venice skill unlocks the full text and audio platform:

30+ models including frontier models (Claude Opus 4.5, GPT-5.2)
Venice's uncensored model — no guardrails, no content restrictions
Built-in web search with citations
Text-to-speech — 60+ voices
Audio transcription
Embeddings for RAG applications

Private inference. OpenAI-compatible drop-in.

venice-ai-media Skill

Add visual capabilities to your agent:

Image generation — Flux, nano-banana, and more
Video from image — Sora, WAN 2.6, Runway Gen4
Video-to-video transformations
Image upscaling and AI editing

Pricing starts at $0.01/image, $0.10/video. No content restrictions.

Getting Started

Step 1: Get your Venice API key

Go to venice.ai and generate an API key from your account settings.

Step 2: Configure your OpenClaw agent

Add the Venice skills to your agent configuration. Both skills are OpenAI-compatible, so existing code works with minimal changes.

Step 3: Start building

Your agent now has access to Venice's full platform with zero data retention.

Why Venice + OpenClaw

Private by default — No logs, no training on your prompts, no metadata
Model variety — Access frontier and uncensored models in one place
Drop-in replacement — OpenAI-compatible API means easy migration