How to Build AI Agents with OpenClaw and Venice API

Venice.ai

February 3, 2026

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