Most home server setups hit the same wall eventually: your machine is running perfectly at home, but you have no easy way to access it from outside your network. The "standard" solutions—port forwarding, dynamic DNS, or a VPN—all require meaningful configuration work, technical knowledge, and potential exposure of your home IP.
ClawBridge was designed with this problem in mind from the start. You shouldn't need network engineering skills to check on your AI agent from a café.
The Problem: Home Servers Are Islands
A typical OpenClaw setup runs on a machine inside your home network. That machine is behind a router doing NAT—it has no public IP of its own. To reach it from the outside world, you'd normally need to:
- Port forward a port on your router to the machine's local IP.
- Handle dynamic IP (most residential ISPs change your IP periodically)—requiring dynamic DNS.
- Secure the exposed port to prevent unauthorized access.
- Or configure a VPN server at home that you connect to before accessing anything.
Each of these has real friction: router admin access, configuration files, certificate management. It's a lot just to check whether your agent is still running.
The Solution: ClawBridge Stealth Mode via Cloudflare Tunnel
When you install ClawBridge, it automatically establishes a Cloudflare Tunnel—an outbound-only encrypted connection from your machine to Cloudflare's global network. This tunnel:
- Requires no port forwarding — the connection initiates outward from your machine, so your router doesn't need to be touched.
- Requires no VPN — you access the ClawBridge dashboard via a regular HTTPS URL.
- Exposes no home IP — traffic is proxied through Cloudflare. Your actual IP address remains hidden.
- Is encrypted end-to-end — all data between your phone and ClawBridge travels over TLS.
What It Looks Like in Practice
After installation, your terminal prints something like:
🚀 ClawBridge Dashboard Live
🌐 https://warm-breeze.trycloudflare.com
🔑 Access Key: cb_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Open that URL on any device with a browser—phone, tablet, friend's laptop—enter your Access Key, and you're in. No VPN app. No configuration. The URL works instantly from any network in the world.
Persistent Access with Your Own Tunnel Token
The default Quick Tunnel URL is temporary—it changes each time ClawBridge restarts. For a stable, permanent URL, you can bring your own Cloudflare Tunnel Token. This requires a free Cloudflare account and gives you a fixed subdomain (e.g., clawbridge.yourdomain.com) that never changes, accessible with the same zero-config security model.
Security Summary
| Concern | How ClawBridge Handles It | |---|---| | Home IP exposure | Hidden behind Cloudflare proxy | | Unauthorized access | Random Access Key required | | Data in transit | HTTPS / TLS encrypted | | Port exposure | None — outbound tunnel only | | VPN required | No |
ClawBridge is free and open source (MIT License) — install it in seconds, own it forever.
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