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OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that runs on your own devices. It bridges messaging services (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage, and more) to AI coding agents through a centralized gateway.

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Install

Install OpenClaw 
npm install -g openclaw@latest
Then run the onboarding wizard: 
openclaw onboard --install-daemon
OpenClaw requires a larger context window. It is recommended to use a context window of at least 64k tokens. See Context length for more information.

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Usage with Ollama

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Quick setup

ollama launch openclaw
Previously known as Clawdbot. ollama launch clawdbot still works as an alias.
This configures OpenClaw to use Ollama and starts the gateway. If the gateway is already running, no changes need to be made as the gateway will auto-reload the changes. To configure without launching: 
ollama launch openclaw --config
  • qwen3-coder
  • glm-4.7
  • gpt-oss:20b
  • gpt-oss:120b
Cloud models are also available at ollama.com/search?c=cloud.