A few weeks ago, our co-founder James Poole quietly shipped something we think is one of the more interesting things we’ve done as a team.
He built a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Renzo, and published a skill to ClawHub, the registry for OpenClaw AI agents. It’s live right now at clawhub.ai/pooleja/renzo. If you’re running an OpenClaw instance, you can install the Renzo skill today and start using it.
Here’s what it does, and more importantly, why we built it.
What’s Working Right Now
The MCP server gives AI agents direct access to Renzo’s product data. Real-time APYs, TVL, ezETH exchange rates, token balances by wallet address, pending withdrawals, claimable status. You can point your agent at a wallet and ask “what Renzo positions do I have?” and get a full breakdown without opening the app.
The withdrawal tracking piece is the one I keep coming back to. Renzo withdrawals have a 7-day cooldown. It’s easy to initiate one and forget about it. With the MCP server, an agent can check where you’re at and remind you the moment your funds are ready to claim. Small thing. But that kind of friction is exactly what makes DeFi feel clunky to most people.
Here’s a screenshot of it in action:
There’s a Three-Phase Plan Here
What James shipped is phase one. Here’s where this is going.
Phase two (in development now): deeper analysis, not just data lookup. Instead of just fetching numbers, the agent can help troubleshoot.
Examples:
- Why is my compound vault position behaving like this?
- What’s actually happening with my funds?
- I received 0.0001 ETH dust in my wallet. Tell me more about it.
The agent explains it, pulling from wallet data and protocol knowledge at the same time. A lot of what hits our support queue today would just get handled automatically.
Phase three (further out, but this is the one we are most excited about): the agent takes action. Depositing, rebalancing, bridging, running a full yield strategy autonomously. The hard part isn’t teaching the bot what to do. It’s doing it securely. You can’t just hand an AI a private key. So before we ship this, we need smart contract-level guardrails: the bot acts within limits you set, you can revoke access anytime. Think Tesla autopilot. You’re still in control. You’re just not manually doing every step.
Why This Matters for Where Renzo is Headed
Our vaults aren’t going anywhere. Some people want a professional manager handling their funds. That product still makes sense.
But there’s a different kind of user we’ve been thinking about. Someone who has a specific strategy in mind. Doesn’t want to wait for us to build a vault product around it. Just wants to run it, on their own terms, with their own setup.
James said it well when he demo’d this:
You can come up with your own strategy that nobody else is doing and have your AI bot figure out how to run it for you.
That’s the direction we’re building toward. Not replacing vaults. Giving people who want more flexibility a different path.
We’ve also been thinking about a strategy hub, something like ClawHub but for on-chain yield strategies. Browse strategies others have posted. Install them. Tweak them. Copy what’s working. That’s further out, but it’s part of the same thread.
Why OpenClaw Specifically
OpenClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant. It’s popular with developers and technically curious people who want a private, customizable agent setup. Most people run it on a dedicated machine, a Raspberry Pi, an old laptop, a spare cloud VM, a Mac Mini, something isolated from their main setup. James runs his on a custom AWS setup.
He named his instance Lorenzo. We like that name.
The ClawHub listing means anyone in that community can give their agent crypto capabilities by installing the Renzo skill. We’re not asking people to adopt a new app. We’re dropping into infrastructure they’re already running.
That’s actually kind of the point. The future of yield isn’t a new dashboard. It’s your AI agent knowing how to find and manage it for you.
The Renzo skill is live now: clawhub.ai/pooleja/renzo
If you install it, let us know what you build with it.
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