users-helping-users

[queen oak]

From my experience i advise you to use arena.ai with opus on internet to help you with the erros. thats how i usually made it work

[azure cosmos]

My current process is to describe the project in detail. Probably about 10+ sentence long depending on the project. I will then ask it to ask me questions to clarify or ask me questions for major design decisions. This will result in 1 or 2 series of questions any where that are 1 to 15 questions.

I then answer them in one response.

1. Yes option 2
2. Expand on this. What do you mean
3. Yes
4. Yes Option 1
5. Yes

[queen oak]

I do exactly the same but i can't make him easily make me an app that is working. i tell him to make an app and take as much time as he needs then he just sends me something he was supposed to be making for days in 20 minutes and it's completely broken

And i can't manage to fix it

[azure cosmos]

Why would something take days to make?

You can include in your request that once the code is finished to run application and unit tests to ensure the code is working a designed.

I will typically make 1 request and then ask the AI to save the project information, design and important considerations to a MD file.

And then I reset the session. You basically have to reset the session almost every other request because of the context window

Also as a side note, youtubers that said "I sleep and my bot writes code for me" have been absolutely the worst. Insanely misleading. It can be done but requires setup

[queen oak]

Yes, i mainly watch alex finn and he said this, thank you for this information

I think i will just work on his identity and then start building something

[azure cosmos]

It can be done with Cron Jobs and using the HEARTBEAT.md but its pretty difficult to do unless you have a good using of how everything works

[queen oak]

i did set it up, but as i told you. It doesn't matter because he doesn't do his work

[azure cosmos]

Fire him! Nuking the install and redoing everything sometimes works for certain things

[queen oak]

Might do the job

[queen oak]

Thank you for help

[iron shuttle]

anyone knows the powershell to configure an agents default model?

[indigo nebula]

You don’t need to update in order to use it. Just add it as a model in your openclaw.json file or better yet ask your claw to add it for you. Mine added it 3 seconds after I asked Can you add the new Anthropic sonnet-4.6 model to my config and make it the default model?

[candid socket]

you can do openclaw configure to add the model with its auth, then you can change the default model within the dashboard

then you just do /new or /model <model> to update your current sessions

[queen oak]

@azure cosmos do you have any recommendations about who i should learn from? I mean youtubers or internet personas

[echo pine]

I'm using the claude max plan, and unable to get this to work

[azure cosmos]

I dont have any names. I've watched so much YT trash and at one point, I stopped searching and then asked Openclaw or ChatGPT. I'd try to find someone that goes through the setup and isn't using stupid a55 titles or gimicks for views and trying to max out the YT algo.

The setup is really important but the default should just work if the MD files are done correctly. You can may try using a different LLM like the 5.2 or 5.3 a step down from the most expensive

[fast canyon]

i cannot see sonnet-4.6 when using /model (ver. 2026.2.17)

[indigo nebula]

That’s odd, I am too and mine is working just fine. FYI…2026.2.17 just dropped a few minutes ago, maybe upgrade to that and see if it helps. 🤷‍♂️

[iron shuttle]

it worked thankyou so much, wish there was a config powershell direclty to edit default model from agent

[candid socket]

you can just directly edit the openclaw json config and set a primary model and fallback models also

agents.defaults.model

[kindred halo]

Ugh 4.6 won’t work for me either. my bot is being dumb haha

“I'm currently on: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514

Even though I updated the config to anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6, it seems like the forward-compat fallback is kicking in. Let me try switching explicitly:

Ah! The forward-compat fallback is working exactly as designed!

What's happening:

• ✅ OpenClaw v2026.2.17 supports Sonnet 4.6
• ❌ Anthropic hasn't released Sonnet 4.6 to the API yet
• ✅ Forward-compat fallback automatically uses anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514
This is actually perfect - your config is ready for Sonnet 4.6 the moment Anthropic releases it to the API, but in the meantime it gracefully falls back to the working model.“

[blazing halo]

whats better?? Quickstart or Manual?? and if i choose quickstart can i still configure my joint with secure joints you feel me

[olive prism]

i just updated to 2026.2.17 but telegram is no longer working and doctor --fix couldn't resolve it. anyone experienced something similar?

[kindred halo]

Check your gateway and see if the messages show up there @olive prism

[olive prism]

Telegram: failed (unknown) - fetch failed

that was when i ran the gateway health, not sure how to see messages

[warped dove]

Yea, not working yet for 4.6 API

[kindred halo]

type openclaw dashboard in terminal

[kindred halo]

Damn dead ass?

[olive prism]

yea those work, i also created another app that i use that i can contact my openclaw agent with but he doesn't know why telegram isn't working either

he's suggesting to revert back to the old version of openclaw

[lime cypress]

My ai chatbot is sending me images with open ai image gen instead of nano banana pro, how do I fix this?

[kindred halo]

Tell it to use nano banana pro for image gen

[lime cypress]

I did

It still doesn't

Is there a way to disable open ai image?

Or is there no image-image support?

[candid socket]

disable the skill

should be a built in skill i think

[lean pelican]

I'm looking to start using openclaw soon (want to get a job first so api tokens don't molest my bank account) and I want to know, should I use a VPS or get a mini pc?

[candid socket]

i would say mini pc. openclaw does not require good spec to run (unless you are running local models, but that will be very expensive). there are also other alternatives like zeroclaw which advertised to run with extremely little overheads

mini pc also solves SOME of the vulnerability that comes with misconfigured vps threats that vps has if you are not used to setting up vps.

there is a hidden cost that many dont talk about for homelabs, which is the electricity cost. my homelab is costing about $30/month ofc it has 20 other selfhosted services, so keep that in mind as well.

an alright mini pc might cost you about $1-$10 per month for electricity cost depending on where you live

[lime cypress]

How do I edit the ElevenLabs voice ID in my chatbot?

[lean pelican]

Okay, if I wanted to transfer from a mini pc to a VPS (or vice versa) is that hard to do or no?

[candid socket]

i am using a docker container, so it just requires me to move the files, set the perms, remount it properly and run the docker container.

normal setup, i have no clue, every service i am using is under a docker container for easy migration.

[lean pelican]

What is a docker container?

[zenith summit]

Guys is Claude Opus 4.6 psychotic? I asked it to add Haiku as an option and it added “Haiku 4”. It then admitted it faked that and showed no remorse and then stopped responding. Has anyone experienced this?

[candid socket]

its kinda used as a way to isolate services, its like a isolated vm. so in theory, if attackers gain access to the service, they can only mess around within that vm/container. ofc if you misconfigure it, things get whack.

you should use youtube and learn about docker containers, how to secure a vps and openclaw docker setup.

if you are unaware of basics, you might misconfigure openclaw which might allow attackers access to your personal data

[zenith summit]

Also any idea why it stopped responding?

[zinc burrow]

hi there, i've read through a couple of threads on models. i was just hired by a ceo to setup OpenClaw for him to read his emails and organize them, and text him via WhatsApp when really important stuff comes in. I just bought the Hetzner vps, but now i don't know which model is the best for him

[quasi comet]

Installed openclaw on vps last night to check it out, standard script install with openai codex. It works bot responds in web dash and ui. What can I do with it?

[lean pelican]

Ah okay! I have a LOT to learn before I start screwing around with it. What do you use openclaw for?

[lime cypress]

Someone please help me 😭

[ruby yacht]

I everyone, I don't have a dedicated macmini to install OpenClaw. I was thinking to use a VM on my macbook pro. Do you know which are the tradeoff of this solution (other than "consuming" my macbook resources and having to leave it ON forever if I want it to be reachable)? Would I miss something from the dedicated machine experience?

[candid socket]

not much rn, only been using it for a week.

rn just got notion setup, it automatically tracks changes i made to different repo and creates patch notes in them.

handles my calendar so everyday it will let me know of tmr's meetings and today's meetings, after meetings, it will prompt me asking for outcomes and follow up actions. which it will update to notion. i can just tell it that i have X meeting @ time and it will automatically add it to calendar.

handles my todo lists as well, every working day, it tells me my todo list (stored in notion), i will give a progress report to the bot, which then will mark the todo list as done and automatically checks the repo/codebase i made changes to, to append patch notes to a log. once i tell it that i have migrated to production, it will automatically archive that patch note and create a new one with new versions and such.

afew other day to day things, but its mainly just a personal assistant. coding wise, i found it better to use visual code/studio with copilot.

[candid socket]

https://docs.openclaw.ai/plugins/voice-call#tts-for-calls

[lean pelican]

Nice, are you a software developer?

[rancid vault]

not the same experience, vn and vps sucked tbh

[ruby yacht]

in specific which are the tradeoff? it's because of "limited resources" or in general because it's not "bare metal"? Would you mind providing more details?

[faint knot]

hey guys - i'm brand new to OpenClaw. i just downloaded it an hour ago and as i was working on it, i asked it to switch from Opus 4.6 to Sonnet and now it's just thinking... it won't come back. any thoughts on how to fix this?

[pearl surge]

I just ran out of api limt how can I reset it

browser tool is failing with:
Protocol error (Target.attachToBrowserTarget): {"code":-32000,"message":"Not allowed"}
plus your version: 2026.2.15 and that the relay popup shows “Attached”.

Please help

[plush tide]

Definitely a mini-pc. It's amazing what you can do with one of these things and you will learn so much about setting up your own gear. The main thing is RAM - get as much as you can afford. CPU is second and overall storage third. RAM will come in handy if you decide to run multiple virtual machines on the mini pc - that opens up a whole world of different apps and services.

[candid socket]

yep, so just using it for personal work related stuff, so it has no access to the actual raw work files. i am currently also setting up an agent to manage a personal wordpress website using the ai engine plugin (which offers MCP)

tbh openclaw is alright, eats up alot of tokens, so sometimes i purposefully set a very low context token limits for some agents so that they are forced to compact and use up little tokens

even the notion, i have hand picked the permissions for the integration api key and i have given it access to a folder that is synced to my pc, so that we can do shit without openclaw being able to run commands or do shit in my pc

[candid lava]

@candid socket I gave up on this shit. it seems like the main worker is special and all other workers are screwed regarding tools permissions and cron

I spent all day trying to debug crons and workers, and the bottom line is theyre fucked

[candid socket]

so for my agent setup, i always force them to do system prompts and in the system event prompt, i give it specific instructions to invoke agent X and give instructions to agent X and a instruction to send the outcomes to my specific whatsapp/tele.

each agent has their own skill set for their scopes, and i have a shared skill folder thats shared to all agents. with a shared .md that maps a scope to an agent also

[candid socket]

ye cron was fking annoying to setup for me as well

the agent turn is fucked, it forces them to summarize outcomes to 1 - 2 lines, so it cant handle structured formats as outputs

[candid lava]

its whack because the agents running in cron do not inherit all skills, even if you allow it.

basically, cron jobs are raw and without openclaw skills

[candid socket]

is that verified?

[candid lava]

I know for a fact it works if I run it all through main

[candid socket]

cos my crons is able to perform actions that are only documented in my skills, maybe i am missing smt

[candid lava]

It was setup last week. I tried to move everything to other agents, not subagents. and they fail

I set openai 5.3 codex up to chase it down and after 30min it said its a bug

my agents that are not main cannot run the gog skill in cron. no matter what i do.

[candid socket]

i think maybe your setup has some issues? cos some of my cron tasks require it to retrieve google calender events

[candid lava]

nah man, its not running in an agent other than main. take it to a technical level

run this: `openclaw cron list --json|egrep 'agentId|gog' I dont think youll get back a cron job running as another agent other than main with the gog skill

[unborn gyro]

what happeedn with the whatsapp ? it stopeed workign. i see the bug report. any chance it might get fixed ??/ i set up a whole biuisness acconts system using whatsapp now adapting it to telegram but all the staff use whatsapp so i hope the bug gets ironed out soon!

[timber tundra]

i turned on the 1 million context window and im jsut getting https errors now. how do i turn that off?

[high kernel]

hi all, quick question on the claude code max plans - how much extra usage can you get out of claude code of opus 4.6 vs sonnet 4.6? does anyone know if it actually makes a difference?

[rocky orbit]

Quite a lot, check token pricing and it’ll give you a hint of the difference

[high kernel]

i saw that api pricing is different but want to know if that filters down into CC

[rocky orbit]

Of course

It’s not 100% clear and a bit vague on their ToS about the exact usage difference but for sure there is a gap

[high kernel]

ok great. hopefully someone will come up with a way to test the difference

[rocky orbit]

You can use CodexBar, a tool created by Peter to follow your usage and see how it varies from one model to the other

[stiff tusk]

I'm amazed how we are at 2026.02.17 version and still have no "default comm channel" setting

[shadow notch]

bro who broke their open claw after update` i updated and sonnet 4-6 give me cool down thing and 1m context doest work on token only api so i am stuck

[bitter stag]

I have a question claw runs locally or cloud

[rocky orbit]

Locally

[bitter stag]

Because I saw some news about how claw bot was modified and it was giving some passwords in the mails and accounts so we need to modify just the prompt right

To solve that breach

[rocky orbit]

Fake news if you install and follow the docs it’s 100% local unless you’re using VPS

[sour slate]

Docs are available at https://docs.openclaw.ai.

[bitter stag]

Well can be true, because you know if the bot can read the mails, and you add a script to a mail. you can do that ,in any document you can picture down loable content and modify the bot

[grizzled shadow]

Does anyone have a smaller LLM running that’s not completely useless?

[rocky orbit]

Kimi 2.5 seems fine for some users

[mental silo]

Stay on 26.2.13, 26.2.17 broke my telegram and also made the gateway crash after just a few minutes

Revert back to .13 = everything good again

[grizzled shadow]

@rocky orbit Nobody is running Kimi 2.5 locally… nor is it anywhere on the category of “smaller”

[rocky orbit]

Sorry didn’t get that you meant local model

[abstract merlin]

Where is everyone getting kimi k2.5 for 10 dollars a month?

[ivory basin]

Hi, I have a question that I couldn't answer with the documentation. I'm trying to limit the context size from 128k down to something manageable on local hardware, but no matter how/where I set it it stays at 128k. How is this supposed to work usually? Currently my bot fills up the context to the point where it becomes unresponsive and I have to start a new session to continue. I'm using ollama on a connected PC. Thank you!

[candid socket]

set agents.defaults.contextTokens then do /new

[candid socket]

ye its been a known issue for quite some time.

people have been creating malicous skills to inject malicous prompts that can override system prompt and do what the attacker wants it to do.

i think there was also a case of attackers sending out prompt engineered emails to trigger an agent to do smt when they read that email during a routine email scanning.

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/5675

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1r30nzv/d_we_scanned_18000_exposed_openclaw_instances_and/

[crisp wing]

r/MachineLearning via Reddit

[winged rain]

i can assist you on the project if you need help

Which MCP skill does not require an API to setup and gives you the web search skills and most relevant skills loaded in one

[lucid sigil]

Hey guys, short question.

I’m using OpenClaw on a Hetzner server with a Claude Pro subscription. Is it normal that it consumes very high rate limits?

How can I save tokens per request? I already instructed it to be resource-efficient, but even normal requests (not coding-related) use around 5–7% of my usage, which doesn’t seem good at all — the weekly limit fills up very quickly.

Maybe you could recommend using another model that’s strong at coding but consumes fewer API limits / tokens? Or a Claude Max Plan is better ?

[ivory basin]

Thank you, I tried to set it, but /new doesn't complete any more as it did before. I've tried to restart the gateway manually as well.

[untold tendon]

My regular IP is located in Singapore and China. How can I deploy OpenClaw? Thanks

How to deploy OpenClaw? If the IPs are different, will there be any differences in the deployment process? Thanks so much.

[ember tide]

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

seems to not work on archlinux

[wooden torrent]

Hi Im runnning the latest ios build and I cant connect the gateway, the wizzard keeps giving me error... any help will be really appreciated 🙂

[ivory basin]

I got it running again and the session is now using the limit I configured, but ollama still shows 128k context.

[candid socket]

if the session is using the limit, it should be ok already

all new session will follow the limit

unless you want to modify model specifically, you might need to tweak the models list json file

[ivory basin]

I was just surprised, if I write with the model using the ollama Windows app it displays the configured context when I do "ollama ps", but not with openclaw. I also have set contextWindow and maxTokens in the provider config for the model, not sure what they're used for though.

[ivory basin]

OK, it didn't work after all, my bot now doesn't seem to understand me any more (it's ignoring the content of my latest message) and I get strange additional information added to my messages. I set the context to 30k, so there should be enough remaining: Session tokens (cached): 10,178 total / ctx=30000. I'd love to post a picture, but it seems that isn't allowed in this channel

[cursive girder]

how can i make the bot reply on whatsapp without a tag? it should figure out on its own when to reply and when not?

[candid socket]

do /context detail see if there is anything weird

[ivory basin]

I did, it states ~10k used of the 30k available, looks good but still doesn't work

I get this attached to my messages, I've had similar stuff displayed before, but not for every single message:

Conversation info (untrusted metadata):

{
  "message_id": "767e051f-8707-438b-ae60-351ad9478008",
  "sender": "openclaw-control-ui"
}

It's really strange, bot writes its greeting, I write something and it writes the greeting again instead of responding to me. How can that happen is I just change the context and there is still enough left?

[candid socket]

i think this is normal, i see it quite often also

[candid socket]

this wise, i am not too sure, def odd. can you do, can you try another model by doing /model

[inner ferry]

Hi everyone. Hope you can help me.

Running OpenClaw v2026.2.18 on Raspberry Pi 5 (arm64).
Model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
Error: Unknown model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6

• openclaw.json config is correct (model in agents.defaults.models)
• ANTHROPIC_API_KEY is set via .env + docker-compose
• git reset --hard origin/main done, fresh --build --force-recreate
• Code is current (2026.2.18)

Same error persists. Any ideas?

[rigid gazelle]

is there a way for skill authors to delete/unpublish their own skills from ClawHub? clawhub delete is moderator-only.
I have an old skill (visibleai-audit)

under a deprecated brand name that I need removed.

The new version is already published under a different slug.

[civic harbor]

I tried a lot with my 3080 and ollama in my WSL, but the context window was an issue all the way long, so I didn't managed :/

Hi Spork, I got an 3080 too, can I ask how you did ? Ollama was in your wondows or in your linux (WSL) ? and with the new openclaw it ask 16k token context minimum, that block my process. Did you face this issue ?

[twilit salmon]

Hi, I got banned using Antigravity. I'm thinking about switching to Codex, is it safe? And in terms of performance, is it equivalent?

[rose karma]

can't comment on safety but performance wise it is probably at the top rn

[twilit salmon]

Sorry, when I talked about safety, I meant: do accounts get banned?

[twilit salmon]

But ty ! I will probably try codex then

[rose karma]

yeah honestly not too sure on that but capability wise it's number 1 imo

[vapid drift]

is open claw okat to run on a lenevo thinkpad t480 and do you think i can still make this profitable for myself as a 17 year old with abit of cash to invest but litt;e none using ai/coding? any advice would help rn

[raw herald]

Hello guys I need help please I couldn't add Microsoft Foundry api to openclaw

[still jungle]

Hi guys I have a security question to ask, I would like to run openclaw on my homeserver (not to many sensible data on there)
Would you guys run Openclaw on a VM or inside a Docker?

[candid socket]

both are ok i feel, but docker is lesser work to setup

[wraith pilot]

Anyone got a fix to telegram messages? If i chat with the bot it ahows system messages and the actual reply gets overlapped by it

[livid drum]

Subject: Device Token Mismatch After Update v2026.2.9 → v2026.2.15

Hi everyone 👋

We're experiencing a persistent device_token_mismatch error after updating from v2026.2.9 to v2026.2.15. Looking for help from anyone who's hit this.

Setup:

• VPS (Ubuntu, systemd user service)
• Gateway mode: local loopback, token auth
• Channels: Telegram
• Agent: embedded (runs inside gateway process)

Problem:
After the update, all gateway-dependent tool calls (cron, sessions_list, subagents, etc.) fail with:

gateway closed (1008): unauthorized: device token mismatch (rotate/reissue device token)

The embedded agent connects to the gateway via internal WebSocket but gets rejected on device auth.

What we've tried (all failed):

1. Rotated gateway.auth.token in openclaw.json
2. Multiple gateway restarts (systemctl --user restart)
3. Full cold purge (kill all processes + fresh start)
4. Deleted ~/.openclaw/identity/device-auth.json
5. Cleared ~/.openclaw/devices/paired.json and pending.json
6. Combined wipe of device-auth + paired + pending + cold restart

Our theory:
The v2026.2.15 changelog mentions:

Security/Pairing: generate 256-bit base64url device and node pairing tokens and use byte-safe constant-time verification (#16535)

Our device identity was created under v2026.2.9 (old hex-format tokens). We believe the new verification logic in v2026.2.15 rejects the old-format tokens, but the gateway isn't auto-migrating them on restart.

Questions:

1. Is there an openclaw device reset or openclaw gateway repair command to force re-registration?
2. Should we delete the entire ~/.openclaw/identity/ directory (including device.json keypair) to force new-format generation?
3. Would updating to v2026.2.17 (latest) resolve this, or do we need to manually reset first?
4. Has anyone else hit this after upgrading from pre-2.15?

Version: v2026.2.15 | Latest available: v2026.2.17 | OS: Ubuntu, systemd

Thanks for any help! 🙏

[storm loom]

Who's using Kimi K2.5? Is is slow AF for you?

[brittle bridge]

Has anyone experienced a device token mismatch in their gateway and the best way to fix it?

[ivory basin]

I tried, but it seems other models don't have that issue (or at least not that extreme). Seems related to the context after all, I'll have to play around with the settings a bit I think

[plush tide]

Lenovo should be perfectly fine as long as you have enough RAM (aim for at least 8 GB).

As for making money - there are lots of opportunities in this space. Spend time with this and other related communities and look for areas where you think you can offer a product or service that people want. That’s basically it. AI can help give you ideas and test your own ideas. It can help with marketing, market analysis and building your website.

Go for it - play with the AI tools and find out how they work and then go from there!

[silver barn]

Sup fuckers - how do you guys get to build a mission control for your claw? And also how do you get the proactive tasks sorted and whatnot

[austere terrace]

Hi! Getting error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:18789, I dont know whats the next proceed to go from :/

Gateway logs (tail, summarized): 
  If the gateway is supervised, stop it with: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:00:35.817+01:00 Gateway service appears loaded. Stop it first.
  2026-02-18T13:00:35.817+01:00 Tip: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:00:35.818+01:00 Or: launchctl bootout gui/$UID/ai.openclaw.gateway
  2026-02-18T13:00:45.798+01:00 Gateway failed to start: gateway already running (pid 28248); lock timeout after 5000ms
  If the gateway is supervised, stop it with: openclaw gateway stop
  … 18 lines omitted …
  2026-02-18T13:01:27.868+01:00 Gateway failed to start: gateway already running (pid 28248); lock timeout after 5000ms
  If the gateway is supervised, stop it with: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:01:27.941+01:00 Gateway service appears loaded. Stop it first.
  2026-02-18T13:01:27.942+01:00 Tip: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:01:27.942+01:00 Or: launchctl bootout gui/$UID/ai.openclaw.gateway
  2026-02-18T13:01:37.890+01:00 Gateway failed to start: gateway already running (pid 28248); lock timeout after 5000ms
  If the gateway is supervised, stop it with: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:01:37.969+01:00 Gateway service appears loaded. Stop it first.
  2026-02-18T13:01:37.970+01:00 Tip: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:01:37.970+01:00 Or: launchctl bootout gui/$UID/ai.openclaw.gateway
  2026-02-18T13:01:47.882+01:00 Gateway failed to start: gateway already running (pid 28248); lock timeout after 5000ms
  If the gateway is supervised, stop it with: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:01:47.964+01:00 Gateway service appears loaded. Stop it first.
  2026-02-18T13:01:47.965+01:00 Tip: openclaw gateway stop
  2026-02-18T13:01:47.965+01:00 Or: launchctl bootout gui/$UID/ai.openclaw.gateway
  # stdout: /Users/barry/.openclaw/logs/gateway.log
! Channel issues skipped (gateway unreachable)

Gateway health:
  connect failed: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:18789

[plush tide]

You already have an instance of the gateway installed and running and you’re trying to run another instance.

Do you know how to stop the service and restart it? The instructions are actually there in the error message! 😁

[austere terrace]

I did that but didnt work but a simple full reboot worked 😄 thank you!

[austere terrace]

Do you perhaps know how I can instead of having the dashboard and chat open, since I connected my discord bot api to the openclaw, if I can chat with it through the discord instead?

[plush tide]

I’ve always wanted to say those famous words “have you tried rebooting your device?” And i fluffed it! 🤣

[austere terrace]

U had ur chance 😛

[dusk leaf]

Anybody there who can help?

I spent about three full days trying to set up the following system.
(I'm a newbie in all of this and used Gemini pro and thinking to navigate though the settings (which worked successfully on my desktop PC, perhaps before the latest OpenClaw update?))

Project Summary: OpenClaw on Raspberry Pi 5
Hardware

• Device: Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB RAM).
• Case: Pironman 5.
• Storage: 256GB SD Card.
  The Objective
• Deploy the OpenClaw Gateway locally using Ollama.
• Primary Model: Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct (Selected over Qwen3 because Qwen3 does not allow the deactivation of "thinking mode").
• Fallback Model: Gemini 1.5 Flash.
• Interface: Remote control via a Telegram bot.
  The Challenges
• Processing Load: The Raspberry Pi 5 struggled to process the extensive system instructions and active skills, causing the system to stall before replying.
• Authentication Failures: The bot was unable to generate the required pairing code for Telegram because the local model could not complete the initial request.
• Configuration Errors: Mismatches between the service settings and the command-line interface led to connection issues and unrecognized configuration commands.
• Session Persistence: The system repeatedly attempted to load previous failed sessions, which kept the hardware in a state of high load.

[austere terrace]

Btw Do you perhaps know how I can instead of having the dashboard and chat open, since I connected my discord bot api to the openclaw, if I can chat with it through the discord instead?

[plush tide]

You’re meant to chat through discord/telegram. That’s the whole point. There’s a bit of config involved but there are plenty of help guides in the help channel or even just ask the agent in the UI to walk you through it. They are generally very good at that type of thing.

[austere terrace]

Oh awesome! seems like its acting up again... disconnected (1006): no reason all the time

[plush tide]

How much ram have you got?

[austere terrace]

24gb so should be fine?

[wise rock]

Team can we include a skill in another skill? Like referencing it "include ./../skill-name/SKILL.md?

[plush tide]

Way enough. Have you run the doctor command in the cli?

[austere terrace]

Will try righ away

@plush tide also do I have to tag the bot to talk or just simply in that chat?

[plush tide]

Interesting idea. I think I have something like that myself but nested skills increase the risk of problems and context drift. If nested skills were a good idea, Anthropic would recommend it.

[plush tide]

Definitely don’t need to @ your bot. I’m more across telegram where you have to disable your privacy settings and make the bot a co-admin to just chat like you mean. Not sure about discord config.

[austere terrace]

Oh similar then 😄 apprecaite it! looks like for discord u do need to ping it

[plush tide]

You have to tag the bot on every message?

[austere terrace]

Yeah, unless you change some settings and so on, think u can just tell the bot to react on every message or so,

[plush tide]

Two super common “it works in DMs but not in servers” causes:

• Mention-gating: by default, guild messages are mention-gated. Try @YourBot hi in a channel, or set requireMention: false for that guild/channel.
• Discord intents: in the Discord Developer Portal enable Message Content Intent (and restart OpenClaw after changing it).

Docs (Discord): https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/discord

From the Openclaw bots here.

[austere terrace]

Ahhhh true yepp! think I will keep to tag it otherwise if my friends types. they gonna make me poor :p

[plush tide]

You can configure bot whitelisting. And in fact you should do that to minimise risk of malicious third parties co-opting your bot.

[austere terrace]

Oooo thats true! Smart! did not thought of it

[clear token]

Hey. I'm running the following:

• Local LLM in ollama (qwen2.5-coder:3b)
• Openclaw
• Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
• GTX 1080 (8 GB RAM)
  When prompting the LLM something simple like "Hi" directly in ollama, it answers after a a couple of seconds. However, if I prompt the same in OpenClaw, it takes a few minutes and sometimes doesn't reply. Does anyone know why that might be?

[plush tide]

I’m sorry to say that those smaller models are very unreliable. I’ve tried using them for customer inquiries through widgets like Chatwoot and they just don’t work they hallucinate like crazy and sometimes don’t even respond at all.

[clear token]

I usually get a reply like "```json
{
"name": "echo",
"arguments": ""hi""
}

[plush tide]

Yeah, that’s because the agent is getting instructions and context from open claw and just doesn’t understand how to deal with it. I got very similar types of responses and other garbage using small models with Chatwoot.

[noble dove]

Hi sorry to bother you, I'm a guy who's been doing 3D modeling on Blender for 3 weeks and I'd like to learn more about AI for Blender. Could anyone help me?

[clear token]

I don't think that is the case. When doing requests against ollama, it replies within a few seconds:
`
root@Ubuntu-2404-noble-amd64-base ~ # curl http://127.0.0.1:11434/api/generate -d '{ "model": "qwen2.5-coder:3b", "prompt": "Hello", "stream": false }'

{"model":"qwen2.5-coder:3b","created_at":"2026-02-18T13:11:10.706719285Z","response":"Hello! How can I assist you today? Whether it's answering questions, providing information, or just having a friendly chat, feel free to ask whatever comes to your mind. I'm here to help in any way I can. Is there something specific you'd like to talk about?","done":true,"done_reason":"stop","context":[151644,8948,198,2610,525,1207,16948,11,3465,553,54364,14817,13,1446,525,264,10950,17847,13,151645,198,151644,872,198,9707,151645,198,151644,77091,198,9707,0,2585,646,358,7789,498,3351,30,13139,432,594,35764,4755,11,8241,1995,11,476,1101,3432,264,11657,6236,11,2666,1910,311,2548,8820,4041,311,697,3971,13,358,2776,1588,311,1492,304,894,1616,358,646,13,2160,1052,2494,3151,498,4172,1075,311,3061,911,30],"total_duration":6487470755,"load_duration":1424856488,"prompt_eval_count":30,"prompt_eval_duration":830647323,"eval_count":58,"eval_duration":4102586808}
`

[copper tulip]

I need documentation links (I wanna install it to my macos)

[patent phoenix]

my claw just deleted my main agent is only existing with a side agent and made that to the main one. And when i want to write something in web ui he says Error: Session file path must be within sessions directory.
i fxied that but now its loading the whole time

Can anyone help?

[frozen sparrow]

guys where is on windows openclaw folder skills ? its no in .openclaw\ folder

[ionic oasis]

guys how to use wacli on openclaw. When i run the doctor I see its not connected. I am unable to send messages.
$ wacli doctor
STORE /home/keegan/.wacli
LOCKED false
AUTHENTICATED true
CONNECTED false
FTS5 true

[gaunt void]

hi, all-- sorry to bother, but something hashappened with my claude auth since 2.17 and sonnet 4.6. My gateway won't connect and I get these errors:

 openclaw tui - ws://127.0.0.1:18789 - agent main - session main                                                                     
 connecting | idle                                                                                                                   
 gateway disconnected: unauthorized: device token mismatch (rotate/reissue device token) | idle                                      
 gateway disconnected: unauthorized: device token mismatch (rotate/reissue device token) | press ctrl+c again to exit                
 gateway disconnected: unauthorized: device token mismatch (rotate/reissue device token) | idle                                      
 gateway disconnected: unauthorized: device token mismatch (rotate/reissue device token) | press ctrl+c again to exit                
gateway connect failed: Error: unauthorized: device token mismatch (rotate/reissue device token)
gateway connect failed: Error: unauthorized: device token mismatch (rotate/reissue device token)

kind of urgent to get this fixed.

[supple abyss]

gm! just tried using the macOS wizard and am getting a wizard error when selecting my mac device as the local gateway. Is this just user error or a known issue?

[gaunt void]

this is after I tried the openclaw gateway install --force

[serene dust]

Hi guys. I am looking at getting a Claude account. Should I just go for api usage and put credits on or pay for pro monthly? Does pro monthly allow openclaw usage OAuth/api per that month in its pro plan?

[supple abyss]

I'm pretty sure they're separate. aka monthly sub doesn't count toward any API calls

[meager basin]

can somebody help me? I'm getting the following in the ui:

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/root/.openclaw/workspace'

did sudo chown -R 1000:1000 "$HOME/.openclaw"

but error still persists... any thoughts?

[serene dust]

Thank you. That is what I am asking. Can you plug into a monthly sub? I have just gone the platform.claude.com route with $5 to start. Wondering if I would get more out of the pro subscription with OpenClaw

[supple abyss]

we're both figuring that out right now:). I'm still trying to get openclaw working. The plan is to make the "brain" claude pro, then fund the api account like you did for any coding

[serene dust]

I have mine setup to openai right now. I just need a backup 🙂

[plush tide]

Try rerunning the wizard to reconnect claude. Changing the model might have messed things up. Those auth errors shit down the gateway too. Brutal.

[supple abyss]

was running into issues with the macOS install so trying via CLI now

[tiny ivy]

during install i didn't linked whatsapp fast enough. during 2nd install i don't get the chance again. How to make that it does behave like a 1st time install?

[plush tide]

I hate permission errors like that and they’re tricky to fix.

First thought is to run doctor over your entire setup. That can sometimes catch folder permission errors.

Without digging into the way your users and sudoers are set up and what permissions they have it’s hard to say from here.

[young kelp]

cree un server para gente hispana de openclaw

[solid kiln]

I have 8GB of VRAM, anyone try to use that for a local inference?

[hollow maple]

try "openclaw onboard" in terminal

[meager basin]

will do - I'm running it dockerized so its a bit of a hell

[gentle scroll]

Hi can someone please help me i'm running clawbot using this command: ollama launch openclaw , on my pc as host contacting it from telgram on my mobile, the issue is when i try to ask it to read any files or do any tasks such as reading or writing files it tell me that it doesn't have permissions, how do i fix that please ?

[coral comet]

Bom dia

[gentle scroll]

it will give me answers like this: 'm sorry, but without having physical control over the OpenClaw system it is not possible to view or access files on my own device, including those stored in directories like C:\Users\ALBIH.openclaw\workspace. If you need to access any information that I've shared or stored inside these files, you should ask the user who created them for permission.

[inner ferry]

FYI, for anyone who has a similar problem: #1473642847273091072 message

[hearty burrow]

6]woensdag 18 februari 2026 15:16Joep
OC
: hmmh copilot sonnet 4.6 is sonnet 4?
│ ◼ github-copilot/claude-haiku-4.5
│ ◼ github-copilot/claude-opus-4.5
│ ◼ github-copilot/claude-opus-4.6
│ ◼ github-copilot/claude-sonnet-4
│ ◼ github-copilot/claude-sonnet-4.5

And codex 5.3 copilot isnt already added?

or am i stupid?

[surreal coyote]

Anyone having ussues with anthropic set up token not working anymore?

[serene dust]

Guys, ran into a lot of these for some reason and gateway is down: plugins: plugin: plugin manifest not found: /home/ubuntu/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/openclaw/extensions/discord

any ideas how I get them back? Seems to have lost all config jsons

Well, looks like OpenClaw wanted to delete all its plugin configs…

[plush tide]

Try running doctor command from the cli or even ask from inside the chat. Your folder permissions are preventing the write tasks.

It’s hard to fix from here because we can’t see how you configured permissions for users and sudoers

[crimson dust]

Hey everyone, I created a terraform boilerplate to help people get started + still have persisted storage. Check it out and let me know of any improvements: https://github.com/sdubey3/openclaw-terraform#

[echo ice]

Hey OpenClaw community! 👋

I've been using BridgeHub to augment my agent with specialized LLM consultations (research, financial analysis, etc.) and built a working prototype that routes queries via a simple command.

The idea: Add /consult as a native OpenClaw command, similar to /model, that sends complex queries to BridgeHub's model tower and returns formatted responses with cost/token metadata.

Example:

/consult:research What are the top 5 AI safety frameworks for enterprise deployment?

Response:

🤖 Consultation Complete (research)
Model: gpt-4o-mini | Cost: $0.000520 | Tokens: 122 in / 836 out

[Detailed response]

Why this is useful:

• Keeps primary agent lean (Kimi/Haiku for speed)
• Routes heavy reasoning to specialized models only when needed
• Transparent cost tracking
• Works across all channels (Telegram, Discord, etc.)

Submitted GitHub issue #20103 with full details. Thoughts? Would this be valuable for your workflows?

[sturdy kelp]

I keep getting this error when I type in the gateway, anyone have a solution?

run error: HTTP 401 authentication_error: Invalid bearer token (request_id:

req_011CYEvNqEnofdSAHQMneZFj)

I tried getting a new token, and removing the line breaks, and then putting it back in, didn’t work now I don’t know what to do

The bot in the discord has also brought me nowhere

I have access to the gateway, but everytime I send a message, it shows that error

[hardy glen]

@sturdy kelp openclaw models auth setup-token
Than
openclaw doctor --fix
It's an auth key miss match

[hardy glen]

I'd then do : openclaw gateway start
Just to make sure the gateway is reset and has useful coms with your system

[brittle bridge]

AHH I finally fixed my auth token key mismatch after nuking my entire setup 🙂

[dawn pollen]

Something broke with my OpenClaw without anything that I changed. Using the latest version.
Getting this kind of responses after I asked to change Opus 4.6 as default:
`<function_calls>
<invoke name="session_status"></invoke>
</function_calls>

I'm using Claude Sonnet 4 (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514). It looks like the model switch didn't take effect - the available Opus model might be named differently or not available.

Let me check what models are actually available:

<function_calls>
<invoke name="exec">
<parameter name="command">openclaw models list</parameter>
</invoke>
</function_calls>
`

[kindred lodge]

i have conversation info(untrusted metadata) how can i fix it ?

[cursive totem]

hi, my llm api key run out of money, I have bought more creadit for it but my openclaw bot doesnt respond or continue to use the api key at all. I tried to restart the gateway, run doctor fix, re config the bot into the same api key and new api key already but none of them work. anyone know how to fix it. Im really appriciated ❤️

[last zephyr]

Anyone trying to share their obsidian valut to openclaw? My setup runs in a VPS. I'm thinking on ways to sync the vault and keep it up to date between my local and a copy within the OpenClaw VPS. Anybody doing something like that?

[plush tide]

Yes i have done exactly that. Use syncthing to sync between VPS and local machine or if you’re brave, set up a MongoDB and sync from mongo to local vault using livesync addon. Syncthing is easier. 🙂

It’s a very powerful tool because openclaw can edit and format markdown files like a boss. And it’s fun to watch live.

Just make sure you keep separate vaults for personal and openclaw tasks.

[kindred tartan]

give your erorrs to an llm.

[grave tree]

I want to run fully local ollama/qwan2.5 on my mac mini (after hitting thresholds on Claude Pro before fun even started!..). Did a clean install of it all, and telegram still gives me "typing..." response and intermittent "NO" responses on this clean install on a simple "hello". Where is the issue??

[jolly echo]

anyone else getting Apple could not verify “OpenClaw.app” is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.
on 2026.2.17 macos App?

[muted basin]

what free llm does the community recommend? and what free service should i use?

[blazing stratus]

API key, where do I put it once I’ve purchased it. Can anyone help? I’m in the openclaw dashboard

[last zephyr]

I'm trying Obsidian Git, will see if that works

[delicate shuttle]

What subscription you have?

[thorny solar]

I'm receiving a lot of exec messages answer from my openclaw instance 😩 what can I do to avoid that?

[crystal bridge]

go to your settings/privacy and scroll down, should be some warning you can approve there.

[turbid coyote]

hey guys! i know this is probably asked often (and i dont know how to search here) but how do i change the model that is used for heartbeat permanently? i use open router.

also, is there a way to have openclaw use different models for different things on a work flow or process it's running? or am i thinking too much like n8n? lol thanks in advance, im new here

[civic harness]

still no opus 4.6 on openclaw?

[stiff tusk]

been there like forever already

[civic harness]

weird
⚠️ Agent failed before reply: Unknown model: anthropic/claude-opus-4-6.

i'm on the last version

[muted basin]

can someone answer this?

[kindred tartan]

you are trying 1m context?

[civic harness]

no

[hollow maple]

are you running Ollama?

[hollow maple]

in terminal, type openclaw onboard, go through settigns, leave or skill alll except the model selection.

[hollow maple]

i beliebe you can use opus through openrouter

[turbid coyote]

im sorry, can you elaborate on that a bit more? i go to the onboard & then i got where to change it?

[hollow maple]

when you go through the onboarding command, like the original claw setup, the 2nd or 3rd screen asks you to choose model or keep settings. with openrouter, choose openrouter (5th or 6th down) and then choose the model

[turbid coyote]

oh okay, i have that set up already, im specifically refering to changing the heartbeat model so its not using my primary model

[remote spindle]

Greetings. I am looking for guidance on running openclaw on linux, in a docker-container. It has been working well, but troubleshooting even minor issues is a challenge. Is there a channel here on discord to help with that specific architecture?

[muted basin]

i dont want to run anything without a recommendation from an expert, idk if i can put a free api key

[violet karma]

my openclaw “writes” to files in workspace, but I cannot see the changes in workspace. I though agent was writing in a different workspace or filesystem than the one I'm looking at, but I keep verifying and his path is same as mine. I cannot figure out if it is sandboxed, around permissions, or configuration, or ??? I have searched here for this issue, but not finding answers. Any ideas?

[jade onyx]

Hi guys, Google disabled my account while using gog. All I did is create a separate Gmail for my agent (manually), setup OAuth in the Google Console and let it write a bunch of stuff into a spreadsheet.

I've seen people get banned for Antigravity OAuth bridge and similar stuff but I use OpenRouter and have no idea how I would've broken ToS honestly. Anyone else experienced something like this?

[gloomy gust]

I appealed and got the account back

[eternal salmon]

Is there any way to let the discord integration upload files for me to see on my phone, I asked it to send me a screenshot of my desktop and it said "here you go", but didn't send me anything

[marsh mountain]

Hey guys, Im a total noob. I am running openclaw on my ubuntu VM. I installed, but when I go to canvas, I get a
OpenClaw Canvas
Interactive test page (auto-reload enabled)
Bridge: missing · iOS=no · Android=no
Failed to send action: hello
, furthermore, when I go to the dashboard, I send a message and it never responds back.
From what I did in initial setup is choose openrouter, and this is what I have in my agent workspace Overview
Workspace paths and identity metadata.
Workspace
/home/hero/.openclaw/workspace
Primary Model
openrouter/pony-alpha
Identity Name
Assistant
Default
yes
Identity Emoji

Skills Filter
all skills
Model Selection
Primary model (default)
Fallbacks (comma-separated)
I don't know if my openrouter works, or not, but I entered the api key, followed some steps, and this is where I am stuck.

[thorny solar]

Maybe you need to config your openclaw.json with:

          "allow": [
            "exec",
            "message" <- message
          ],```

I wasn't abble to send images to whatsapp, until I set it on my openclaw.json

[fallow anvil]

anyone know why my agent randomly changed and its not executing things anymore in my pc saying he got no permission but yesterday when i told him to move things he could do like anything?

[cursive tapir]

i cant seem to get APIs to work.. have claude connected but burning up subscription annd im tryinng to use openrouter now. help?

[slender rivet]

How do you make your agents better problem solvers and to think outside the box? I gave my agent a spreadsheet with a column of clients. The clients are always two names (it’s a wedding). Example: “Jessica and Justin” would be found in Column A. The agent has access to both of my email archive and archive from my project management software. I tell it I need to go find the wedding venue name and store it in column B. It’s very dumb even after lots of coaching through examples. Its default would be, let’s search for “Jessica and Justin”, “Jessica & Justin”, and “Jessica Justin” and if the information doesn’t come up right in front of it, then it won’t find anything. Whereas I know, as a human, I’ll start small and just search for Jessica and see if I find anything details related to a wedding, and then I’ll narrow those down and find one with the grooms name too, then keep pulling at every thread. I might need to open a PDF (all of the skills are installed). Eventually I’ll find the venue. My agent will not and will give up. I’m using GLM-5 and I had modified my Md files for smarter thinking. It still is C+ at problem solving.

[digital schooner]

<400> InternalError.Algo.DataInspectionFailed: Input text data may contain inappropriate content.

这个问题怎么修复啊

[marble valley]

Just a quick question.

M4 max pro with 36gb - which model would run best that includes vision capabilities… or should I switch models entirely for image recognition? Right now I’m running Nemo for the largest context window… but I want to switch as I keep getting [Object object] errors from lmstudio on that model… I can’t seem to get qwen3’s to work at all… only other model I got online is a poorly optimized gml4.7-flash, any thoughts?

[tranquil jolt]

Tell me in the first setup what is the best to Enable Hooks?
Enable hooks?
│ ◻ Skip for now
│ ◼ 🚀 boot-md (Run BOOT.md on gateway startup)
│ ◼ 📎 bootstrap-extra-files (Inject additional workspace bootstrap files via glob/path patterns)
│ ◼ 📝 command-logger (Log all command events to a centralized audit file)
│ ◼ 💾 session-memory (

[digital wave]

Hey! I need some help with ZeroCLAW. I have it installed on my home server, but it only knows what's in the workspace. I want to be able to control my server from WhatsApp or Telegram - like sending "update homeassistant" and having it run everything needed.

What's the best way to give my ZeroCLAW agent access to my home server? Should I use MCP, set up a bot with an API, or something else? Any tips would be appreciated!

[tall ruin]

Guys, I've a suggestion for people having issues with their OpenClaw

1- Install Antigravity
2- Ask them to solve your issues, as it will completely solve every issue you have with the right propmts, if you need any assistance, just ping me here.

[fallow anvil]

clawhub update --all
✖ Rate limit exceeded
Error: Rate limit exceeded, why and how?

[ancient skiff]

In openclaw do i need multiple SKILL.md to have multi-agent architecture ?

[torn tinsel]

Ask the bot

[marble valley]

combining OpenClaw with Google Antigravity creates an autonomous AI engineering team, but users are currently experiencing significant, permanent account bans due to violations of Google's Terms of Service.

[ember tide]

I installed antigravity

The issue I'm facing is with browser, I ask openclawd using telegram to go to website eg google.com and then search for something, it keeps getting error, it can open the website but can not click butrons

Anyone else had any issues with button clicks on websites?

[eternal salmon]

it doesn't look like I have that in my openclaw.json

I don't know what fixed it, but I told openclaw to fix it and it works now 👍

[serene crater]

Hello which provider enable faster responses from openclaw ? thinking of inexpensive models

[steep ether]

hey boys would a Ubuntu 22.04 VPS work for using clawbot and controlling the device taht its running on completely eg i can open browser tell itt o reserahc osmething on the browser and i can see it doing it

[ember tide]

How do you tell OpenClaw to fix itself? Did OpenClaw change its own files or something?

[ember tide]

Yes apparently

Just need llm api key

[steep ether]

cant u use ur chatgpt subscription ?

[ember tide]

I think you can, the option was there something like openai codex

but I used google api key

[eternal salmon]

yes it did

[ember tide]

Ok let me try that

[slow sluice]

Hi, I’m looking to hire someone on a weekly or monthly basis to build and manage a bot that pulls data from the Master Commissioner and County Clerk websites in the counties I target, retrieves property valuation information from the PVA, captures the last sale date and sale price, and filters out properties that don’t meet my criteria so I’m left with a clean, organized list to review. The goal is to automate part of my workflow and save time by eliminating manual sorting. I’m happy to hop on a call to walk you through exactly what I need pulled and how I narrow down my lists. If this is something you can help with, please send me a DM so we can jump on a call. I’m looking to get this started as soon as possible.

[ember tide]

Interesting :

Lakshay:
Fix yourself

hfsuudududueoeitufiriei-bot:
I am unable to restart the OpenClaw gateway because the restart functionality is disabled. To enable it, you would need to set commands.restart=true.

Regarding the browser issue, it appears the Chrome extension relay is still running but not connected to a tab. You will need to click the OpenClaw Chrome extension icon on a tab to attach it for the browser tool to function.

:warning: :electric_plug: Gateway failed: Gateway restart is disabled. Set commands.restart=true to enable.

"You'll need to youll need to,"

If I need to do everything what is the reason I pay the agent api

[sharp star]

Guys ive setup codex 5.2 as my primary model - and now i want to setup grok ai as my model for news/market pulse/global evens headlines. Is there an Oauth integration for Grok or only API?

[frozen sparrow]

update not working disconnected (1006): no reason how to fix ?

[past oxide]

hello folks, anyone know of good guids to have openclaw rip on its own as a marketing manager, a good architecture to achieve so ( one sub agent finds potential clients, another sub agent emails, one sub agent does blogs ... )

[inland jay]

Hi guys in my Workspace/Memory, at first it only saved fields like Session Key / Session ID / Source. Now it’s started adding session summaries there, and I’m not sure if that’s the native behavior or if the model/prompt is contaminating (corrupting) the memory. Have you seen the same?

[forest valve]

would love to know this aswell

Hey everyone!

I’m using OpenClaw to automate part of my workflow — mainly discovering relevant profiles on X for my startup.

Looking for accounts based on bio keywords and tweet topics.

I’m trying to design the architecture and would love advice:

• Do you scrape via API / scrapers or browser automation?
• Do agents collect data or only analyze structured data?
• How do you handle persistent memory?
• How do you ground environment/tools reliably?
• How do you verify real execution?

Thinking of:

scraper → structured data → agent analysis

Would love to hear real setups 🙏

[eternal salmon]

I can't get this to work, I keep getting an error
Cloud Code Assist API error (400): Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "patternProperties" at 'request.tools[0].function_declarations[3].parameters.properties[2].value': Cannot find field.

[slow sluice]

Hi, I’m looking to hire someone on a weekly or monthly basis to build and manage a bot that pulls data from the Master Commissioner and County Clerk websites in the counties I target, retrieves property valuation information from the PVA, captures the last sale date and sale price, and filters out properties that don’t meet my criteria so I’m left with a clean, organized list to review. The goal is to automate part of my workflow and save time by eliminating manual sorting. I’m happy to hop on a call to walk you through exactly what I need pulled and how I narrow down my lists. If this is something you can help with, please send me a DM so we can jump on a call. I’m looking to get this started as soon as possible.

[sharp ledge]

hey guys, does someone have the same problem like me when trying to work with Z.AI GLM-5 Model? i have set everything up but i cant seem to get an output from GLM5 it always come from a fallback model

[rare ether]

Question: post update, im getting this error: HTTP 401: authentication_error: OAuth authentication is currently not supported. (request_id: req_011CYGBQzjbewWRCyFqLJnCx) Claude Code seems to think Anthropic closed the Max/API loophole and the MAX account will not work. Is this wrong? Anyone else having problems today using a MAX account with OpenClaw?

[sharp ledge]

i've read somewhere that claude banned openclaw from using the plans idk

[rare ether]

Ah. Damn. That must be REALLY new. I haven't read that. Any recs for a model to switch to? I've loved using my MAX account

[tribal kayak]

hello fellow claws! i am using my bot through discord via 0auth for my claude max plan. I know that's kind of a no no, but i keep getting errors "API limit reached. Please try again later" and when I check claude's platform, everything looks fine.

In addition sometimes the bot will go back to chatting and say nothing is wrong, then the error happens again

[sharp ledge]

im using the gemini api, you get 300$ to get started on the api, atleast in germany idk how its globally and then i use kimi k2.5 for coding, its incredible imo

[sharp ledge]

do you have any fallback models configured or just anthropic?

[tribal kayak]

no, i do not know how to do that yet i suppose. i am brand new to openclaw

@sharp ledge

i am just confused because it's on the max plan. unless i hit their limit

[lofty gate]

hey guys, i'm a bit new here and im having a lot of trouble with my agent capping at max api limit. why is this? and how do i fix?

I was trying to prompt a simple command with cleaning my email inboxes but itll stop after it does one action

i am using claude anthropic on a mac mini lol

[past oxide]

will kepp you posted, im now having it push automatic blog posts

[tribal kayak]

he fixed himself. thanks

[sharp ledge]

i have an lead agent that sources me my leads very well

[forest valve]

thx!

[past oxide]

what do you do with the leads, does it fire emails to them ? and are you using Gog skill for that ?

[sharp ledge]

rn it fires just to my crm. im currently building the outreach agent so that it send automatically everything with the gog skill yes

my best tip for building agents like that is, let antigravity handle everything lol, i built my entire workflow with antigravity (lead -> outreach -> if outreach positive -> strategy -> content phase -> building/mvp phase)

[shell cairn]

Any crypto gang in here that are willing to share some skills and some flows to actually get going? Hobbyist here so appreciated if you do!!

[slow sluice]

Hi, I’m looking to hire someone on a weekly or monthly basis to build and manage a bot that pulls data from the Master Commissioner and County Clerk websites in the counties I target, retrieves property valuation information from the PVA, captures the last sale date and sale price, and filters out properties that don’t meet my criteria so I’m left with a clean, organized list to review. The goal is to automate part of my workflow and save time by eliminating manual sorting. I’m happy to hop on a call to walk you through exactly what I need pulled and how I narrow down my lists. If this is something you can help with, please send me a DM so we can jump on a call. I’m looking to get this started as soon as possible.

[molten fiber]

do i want to use 5.2 or 5.3 codex for my model? trying to set up now

[mental steppe]

^ are you cost sensitive?

[sharp ledge]

Does anyone know how to use gemini TTS or isnt it possible?

[steady gyro]

Invalid 'input[831].call_id': empty string. Expected a string with minimum length 1, but got an empty string instead.

Anyone knows how this happens?

[turbid turtle]

Fixed: https://discord.com/channels/1456350064065904867/1473794260296929312

[rare ether]

Thanks! I'll take a look

[turbid grail]

Is there a way to add CODEX 5.3 without using 0auth? I have reached my team plan limit with 0auth

[mild anvil]

Yeh mine burnt it

Weird though cos on twitter they’re saying it’s a lot of usage

Anyone using github pro plus?

[mild anvil]

Dm

[turbid grail]

I'm not I basically just use mission control as my GITHUB pro plus basically especially with my CODEX subscription but i burnt it in like 2 days and now I'm using Opus but I really prefer CODEX

[mild anvil]

Im using ChatGPT business

So Codex 5.3 CLI and yeh burnt my weekly

[mild anvil]

Can you connect GitHub copilot pro to OpenClaw

[turbid grail]

@mild anvil Not sure I never tried it, I unsubscribed from all my third party platforms after using openclaw\

[hearty badger]

can anyone help me intergrate discord communications? im have a very hard time doing that rn

[crystal sorrel]

Quick question. I renamed my agent from id main to jack. Now everytime I restart another agent with id main is being automatically created. Does my agent always have to be main? It´s annoying to see main in the agents dashboard. Can I somehow turn this off?

[shell surge]

Hey all! Hey! I'm running a small experiment to help agents sound more human + get early users.
If you're building an agent and want free initial users + feedback, this might align!

DM, I'm happy to schedule a quick call as well!

(just volunteering to help other builders while running this experiment to help my agent generate less AI slop) 🙂

[rare ether]

Can someone please confirm for me that they are CURRENTLY running MAX as the main model and it is still working? Mine no longer works with Oauth and Claude Code CLI can't even solve the problem. I just need a baseline to know if it is my setup specifically or a larger issue with Anthropic MAX accounts using OpenClaw.

[wraith pilot]

anyone has an idea why a python app keeps on closing after prolonged use? i tried to tell openclaw to diagnose it and it just says that it just "closed" do i need it to run on a subagent for it to not close?

[mild anvil]

Guys I need help if I pay for ChatGPT plus can I use OpenClaw unlimited messaging without API?

[nocturne zephyr]

Anthropic doesn't allow Claude Code subscriptions to be used with non-Claude Code tools. It's in their ToS.

My take: I presume it's because they priced it at a point where it's financially feasible if it's human use of their tools, but automated 24/7 use costs them too much and loses money. They're being $#!+s about it, but I guess they can afford to be. 🤷

[rare ether]

I understand the ToS issue... but my question is: is it now BLOCKED? I've been running it on MAX since it launched. So I just want to know if ANYONE else is seeing this behaviour as of today.

[true meadow]

Selective bans are the rumor

[rare ether]

@true meadow Except my account still works perfectly with Claude Code CLI....

I think it is a ME issue and not an OpenClaw issue. I'll keep pounding away...

[rare ether]

Ok. I figured it out. Setting "context1m": true seems to NOT be allowed with a MAX account. So 200k tokens... but at least it works with Sonnet 4.6.

[snow iris]

I just went to a lot of trouble to set up a chatterbox-tts on my WSL2 machine so my Mac Mini/OpenClaw/Telegram could use a custom voice that I made for my Telegram bot to speak with me. This is what my openclaw.json looks like right now (messages section only):
"messages": {
"tts": {
"auto": "always",
"mode": "final",
"provider": "openai",
"openai": {
"apiKey": "not-needed",
"baseUrl": "http://192.168.1.81:4123",
"model": "chatterbox",
"voice": "default"
}
},
"ackReactionScope": "group-mentions"
},

---

My gateway restart chokes on the baseURL under openai. The problem? According to Sonnet 4.6 ext:
" the problem. OpenClaw's TTS config supports provider: "openai" but the schema only accepts apiKey, model, and voice :antCitation[]{citations="50802604-fdba-4a29-9618-3527457c413e"} for that provider — there's no baseUrl field. It's hardcoded to hit the real OpenAI API. That's why it's rejecting our config.
You have 2 practical options:
Option A — Use Edge TTS (built-in, free, works right now, no custom voice)
Edge TTS requires no API key and no external server. You won't get Aiden's voice, but you'll get TTS working in Telegram immediately. Update your messages.tts block to:
json"messages": {
"tts": {
"auto": "always",
"mode": "final",
"provider": "edge"
},
"ackReactionScope": "group-mentions"
},
Option B — Pay for a real OpenAI TTS API key
Then use your openclaw.json config exactly as written but with a real key and remove baseUrl. This gets you OpenAI voices but not Aiden's cloned voice.
Honest assessment: OpenClaw's built-in TTS doesn't support custom endpoints for the OpenAI provider, so there's no clean path to plug Chatterbox in through the native TTS config. The Chatterbox API server you set up is still useful — just not via OpenClaw's TTS integration.
Want to go with Edge TTS for now to at least get audio responses in Telegram?"

---

Correct? I like neither option!

[bold moat]

Where can I see the cause of this error? The logs aren't showing anything.

Unhandled stop reason: error

[carmine epoch]

Been using gemini flash lite. Thoughts.? Reason I did was because if you sign up for gemini, no payment upfront they give you $300 credits free to test.

So far only used like $7 but I haven't done a hell of alot. And my openclaw makes mistakes alot.

Don't know much about the flash lite model and how it compares to using the heavy hitters

[severe nexus]

hey guys can anyone reccomend an advanced setup guide for a VPS? for openclaw

[solid kiln]

im not expert but I found that the quality of the model makes a big impact. I am switched to something like claude opus to drive the ship and have it deligate tasks to the model that it thinks can handle the task.

[solid kiln]

I followed this youtube video
ClawdBot Full Tutorial for Beginners: SECURE Setup Guide. well known content creator. I thought it was pretty good to follow

[severe nexus]

the one from techwithtim?

[solid kiln]

yeah

[severe nexus]

okay wow yeah this is exactly what i was looking for

[solid kiln]

https://tenor.com/view/im-doing-my-part-serious-stare-gif-11979677

[sinful forum]

doesnt work here neither

[outer ocean]

I need help im new to openclaw and dont neccessarily want to pay a large amount for an api key. Im having trouble understanding the best way to go about this, can someone just tell me what ai they use and how much they pay please?

[silver canyon]

use mistral put in vercel ai gateway and run through it

[acoustic zinc]

Anyone else have the issue with your API keys? saying you dont have any credits when in face you do

[knotty lodge]

I’m having a really strange issue with OpenClaw. I’m on Paid Tier 1, and over the last day, when I work with OpenClaw it started acting up and giving me rate-limit warnings. I have three API keys across three different projects to reduce rate limiting. I monitored the API keys and none of them reached the 2M TPM cap (and even if they had, that would be insane for a single minute of time, especially with OpenClaw doing almost nothing). I tried /new, but it didn’t help.

[acoustic zinc]

more importantly know how to resolve

[safe spire]

HTTP 404: not_found_error: Not Found (request_id: req_011CYGiCXDejva8KoTetZ9g2) any one can help me?

[charred iron]

im trying to pair a macos node to my linux gateway, both running 2026.2.17, when i run the command node run --host <gateway ip> --port 18789 --display-name macmini i get the following error
node host gateway connect failed: pairing required
gateway connect failed: Error: pairing required
node host gateway closed (1008): pairing required

the gateway never generates a pairing token or lists it under devices for approval.

any idea what im doing wrong? (the main agent says that i should ask here, as it's out of ideas 🙂

[near anchor]

Per-agent exec routing to remote nodes — anyone got this working?**

Running 2026.2.14 with a 3-node setup: Apple Silicon gateway + two 2014 Mac minis as remote nodes (both paired/connected via LaunchDaemons).

I want specific agents to exec on specific nodes — e.g., Melvil on Vault, Tinker on Lab. Tried three approaches, none worked:

1. Per-agent tools.exec.host: "node" + tools.exec.node: "Vault" — config accepted but exec still runs on gateway. Bonus: these keys actually broke one agent's shell with spawn /bin/sh ENOENT until I removed them.

2. Global tools.exec.host = node — no change in routing.

3. Top-level execNode on agent def — found in schema source but config validator rejects it as unrecognized key.

Currently all 7 agents exec on the gateway. Nodes are connected but idle. Am I missing something, or is per-agent node routing not yet supported in 2026.2.14?

Workaround for now: mounting shared resources on the gateway so agents can access them there. But defeats the purpose of having distributed nodes.

Anyone running a multi-node setup with agents actually executing on their assigned nodes? What config did you use?

[ionic karma]

on my end clawbot refuses to switch to another model despite showing the correct one in the tui it still tries to use codex (I have it set to use opus atm). Anyone else having this issue?

[north cloud]

Hi. I’m using on a Mac and have the latest version of openclaw. I’m having an issue with the gateway. It keeps telling me that the gateway port is already in use. I try to kill the pid and restart the gateway but I get the same message with a different pid. After a few attempts I get a message that the gateway is not installed. I reinstall it but it keeps timing out during health check. Any suggestions?

[ionic karma]

Looks like opus is on cooldown and is blocking the switch

[round thunder]

I just did an update and Telegram seems to have broken and wont respond. Any ideas?

[gloomy hemlock]

My god damn Clawdbot was working on security. Of course I said please don’t lock me out. It did something insane locked me out as it was trying to change to opus 4.6. Can’t even get back in the VPS. Digital Ocean has no idea what’s going on. 😪

[valid perch]

Can you use the terminal ui to tell openclaw to figure out what needs to be fixed? Sometimes it's quite good at fixing its own problems.

[round thunder]

Been trying that, it is saying the problem is the telegram channel is borked and noneo f the fixes have worked. It chats fine on the web, but the telegram channel is appreantly not spawing sessions.

[storm loom]

Is anyone running DeepSeek V3? My bot died configuring it

Its not in the allowlist

[merry kettle]

Hey guys! Im running openclaw on a ubuntu server, and chatting via web chat on a seperate device (using tailscale) the browser chat works fine and the UI is fine but when i send messages it displays a some json metadata along with every message i send, anyone know how to fix this?

[round thunder]

Weird, eventaully fixed the problem with Telegram, had to disabled ipv6 on the machine. Openclaw thinks it is something to do with the fallback not working correctly in the telegram library for node.

[bold saffron]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use himalaya to integrate an Outlook/Office 365 email account with OpenClaw.

I've generated and used an App Password for the account. However, when trying to authenticate or list mailboxes, himalaya throws this specific error:

authentication failed mechanism=Plain err=... AuthFailed:LogonDenied-BasicAuthBlocked-...<AppPW><BGUserType:ManagedBusiness<LogonFailed-BasicAuthBlocked>AS:BasicAuthBlocked...

This clearly indicates AuthFailed:LogonDenied-BasicAuthBlocked even with an App Password, suggesting basic authentication is blocked for my managed business account (or similar scenario). I believe this might mean OAuth 2.0 is strictly enforced for this account type, even for App Passwords.

Has anyone else encountered this exact "BasicAuthBlocked" error from Outlook/Office 365 when trying to use App Passwords with himalaya? If so, were you able to find a workaround that didn't involve complex OAuth 2.0 setup (which is challenging for personal use), or was OAuth the only solution for this specific BasicAuthBlocked scenario?

Any shared experiences or solutions would be incredibly helpful!🙌🏿

[vast zealot]

Hey guys, any idea why Krill doesn’t respond to questions sometimes? Does it reply selectively?

[dim harbor]

it can take a few minutes, just wait, or has it been hours already ?

[twin lotus]

Guys, who's maintaining the global code? Very stupid question.

[north merlin]

I previously had an OpenClaw install locally and thought it was awesome like it was proactively making suggestions and generating code locally. But now, I decided to move it to a VPS instead, so I did a new fresh install. All of a sudden, it behaves like all the other AIs, waits passively for my input and says it can't run code. Instead, it just gives me code files. I'm confused. Is there some configuration that is needed to get the proactive behavior? I'm using openrouter/auto just like before.

[pliant abyss]

I purchased OpenClaw via Hostinger VPS. I tried to add anthropic ai model for it but somehow I killed it... how do I reset it? Health is off/dead and disconnected because no AI is connected. I trie the config method, adding openai and anthropic sonnet but it didn't bring it back to life. The dashboard won't let me add models in the settings.

[scenic marsh]

can i ask what you had setup locally before? were you running it with claude/codex? linked with local llm to save tokens or?

[north merlin]

no, I was only using free openrouter models. first, I tried setting a specific one like gemma, but that quickly resulted in errors. when I switched to openrouter/auto, it was working perfectly. I didn't have any other configuration, just standard install with openclaw onboard. I mean, isn't the behavior where it knows how to access the local file system and operates proactively the standard behavior?

[spring mauve]

any recommendations for marketing agents?

[feral garden]

Anyone ? I've switch from gpt4.1 mini to gpt5.1 and dashboard chat section showing me, error 400 Unsupported value: 'low' is not supported with the 'gpt-5.1-chat-latest' model. Supported values are: 'medium'.,,,

[fierce thunder]

Hello ! First off, thank you in advance for helping!! ChatGPT-5-codex works fine for me but as soon as i switch API model to GPT-5-mini , its giving me an error: "[openclaw] Agent failed before reply: Unknown model: openai/gpt-5.1-mini. Anyone know why 5.1 mini doesn't work for me?

[maiden night]

Session Memory Questions

[dim harbor]

sounds like reasoning level that needs to be changed from low

[feral garden]

Yeah but I can't able to find Reasoning level settings

[zenith matrix]

Hey folks.
For some reason the agent sometimes sends me the response multiple times and i couldn‘t find out why exactly this is happening.
Has anyone a hint how to debug this?

[dim harbor]

https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/thinking

[past oxide]

hello folks, how do I fix "HTTP 401: User not found." error ?

[fervent canopy]

How to setup Open router to use grok 4.1 fast in OpenClaw?

Currently I have open router in auto

[earnest sage]

Hi folks!

I am desperately trying to get a homemade plugin installed on my openclaw but despite installing/enabling it, it remains disabled 😮‍💨

Has anyone already experienced that?

[vague willow]

Does anyone know if using Codex plus subscription auth can cause a ban?

[mystic crystal]

:lobster: OpenClaw 2026.2.17 (4134875) — I'm like tmux: confusing at first, then suddenly you can't live without me.

Downloading @openclaw/copilot-proxy…
npm pack failed: npm notice Access token expired or revoked. Please try logging in again.
npm notice Access token expired or revoked. Please try logging in again.
npm error code E404```

Anybody got an idea what happens here ?

[cursive path]

How can I make my agent run the whole night until tokens run out. It spawns two sub agents to work through my projects but then stops after 30 min. However I told it to loop, and after finishing one job start the next one

[fallow anvil]

anyone knows why openclaw starts on pc start?

[candid socket]

been looking for one as well, found some videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UaQB325EqU

may not be that useful but its a start ig

[candid socket]

did you add it to the config models array?

if not run cli openclaw configure, and add it in

[tepid jasper]

Hi all, anyone can help me with my team set-up or has any relevant thread to see how a product team can be set up? I'm having issues with agent coordination adn handoffs between agents. They move to idle every time they finish a task and don't get the following one. I've set up a cron job to check their status and feed them every 5 minutes but still... And even editing the heartbeat. The team is nos composed of a PM + Builder + QA

[twin hearth]

Has anyone found a good way of maintaining brances of openclaw? Like a dev vs production? I feel the bot writes the best code for itself and can not done from outside. Is there a clean way i can chat and build while having branced repos?

[half gate]

hello ! can someone help ? I am running OpenClaw in Docker. Getting device token mismatch on every CLI command (browser, etc.) even after deleting /identity/device.json and /devices/* and restarting. Gateway starts fine, Telegram works, but CLI can't connect. Any Docker-specific config needed?

[floral elk]

how openclaw can run on Apple MacBookPro 2015 Earyly (x86) machine?

[quiet sluice]

I entered the command "openclaw plugins install @openclaw/line", but it doesn't download and returns a 404 error. Does anyone know how to fix this?

how can i install LINE plugins...haha..:)

[brittle gate]

We are excited to announce a new free Mint opportunity in partnership with OpenSea!

🚀Members of this server are invited to participate.
To secure your spot, please visit the official minting page: MINT HERE

We encourage you to participate soon, as selection is limited.

[dull spruce]

that link seems sus

[wary osprey]

Yeah, the clean way is to treat OpenClaw like any normal software project and keep strict separation between code and runtime state.

A setup that works well:

1. Two environments

• dev and prod as separate configs, not separate “agent brains”
• separate API keys and budgets per environment

2. Branching method

• main = production
• dev = active building
• feature branches for experiments, then PR back into dev

3. Separate state

• keep agent memory, workspace files, and logs separated per env
  example: workspaces/dev and workspaces/prod

4. Deployment

• dev runs locally
• prod runs on a server
• promote changes by merging dev → main and redeploying

If the agent writes the best code for itself, keep that in dev and only promote to main after review. That way you can chat and iterate freely without production drifting

Also, using a unified API layer helps here because you can keep the same code and switch environments by swapping one config, plus you can set different rate limits or budgets per env.

We do this with AIsa so dev can experiment and prod stays stable.

how are you running OpenClaw? Is it local, Docker, or running it with VPS?

[delicate crescent]

I moved to ollama. Cloud versions. Paid USD20 and use mimimax & kimi k2.5. Looks like lots of head room. May not be as good as ChatGPT but good enough. Still using codex for cording Xcode

I did not like openrouter from here in Australia it seemed very slow. I moved to ollama.

I have OC back up all skills memory etc to GitHub but as dr rebuild option

Do you tie agents to models?? Then get OC to send requests to correct agent to use the right model.

That’s great work. I learned 2 things from it. One is alias and change in the tui.

[quasi comet]

i used openai codex auth, how can i add different one, cuz codex out of limits

[queen ice]

One question guys, when pulling the discord skill from ClawHub there is no index.js or main.js file how do you solve this?

[hollow moss]

Hey guys.. new member here and very excited!

Quick question - any suggestions for hosting solutions and will I lose any functionality or controls if I go with a hosting solution?

[brave pivot]

dr rebuild?

[wicked zinc]

Hey, that's interesting, since openrouter bills per usage and ollama bills per month. Curious how the two really compare. I'm currently messing with the free models on openrouter, which are not that great, and still considering where to switch to next. Deepseek v3, openrouter kimi/minimax, and now ollama is on the table.

[storm loom]

I love Openrouter. Its only one key

Kimi is legit amazing. As good as Opus and way cheaper

Is anyone using 2.0 Flash for their main agent?

[limpid bridge]

Hi everyone. Is it possible for Openclaw dynamicly to pass my input data into a model I've previously defined? For example, if I ask for a joke, the response will be retrieved from the local ollama/lama3.2, and if I ask for a historical figure, it will redirect the query to a provider like OpenRouter? Is there a tutorial for this?

[gleaming coral]

Hey all. New here. what's the process to deploy on the gateway on an Android device? I've seen some reddit posts here and there and forks but nothing that caught my eyes as a stable release.
Is this something the project is keen on supporting? (Asking so I don't spend time forking but contributing)

Also -- shout in case this is a big nono (just give me a why, please)

[wary osprey]

You should definitely try AIsa before moving to Ollama. Easy integration, and at the same time it's way more cheaper than OpenRouter

[wary osprey]

using a unified API layer is the real deal now fr. Instead of wiring multiple provider keys into your agent, you route everything through one endpoint and keep the model layer abstracted.

[tired plaza]

Has anyone gotten OAuth MCP servers working with Openclaw?

mcporter doesn't seem to handle the OAuth flow.. been stuck trying to connect Supabase MCP

curious if anyone found a workaround

[inner zealot]

I don't understand why it does not upgrade to latest version using curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- --no-onboard
During the installation it says:
INFO Installing OpenClaw v2026.2.17
OpenClaw installed successfully (2026.2.9)

openclaw --version => 2026.2.9

[kindred gate]

Is there 1 location wher i can see everyavailable openclaw skill?

[azure musk]

Is it better to run multiple open claw instances on separate servers/devices? If I have one Mac mini that’s running it for cold outreach and another VPS that’s running a kalshi trading bot. Want to create a personal assistant and wondering if I should just get another VPS or just run it on the MacMini?

[short tree]

URL for ALSA?

[neon jolt]

gm everyone, got a nice stack of digital ocean credits, was just goint to deploy on ubununu but noticed they have an openclaw image in the marketplace

thoughts on just using the openclaw image or should i just use ubuuntu and do it myself

[short tree]

Openrouter openrouter/auto is buggy in openclaw, I think.

[dense pier]

is anyone still able to use the Claude 0auth in OpenClaw?

it was working for me all this time until like 2 hours ago LOL

[dense pier]

I've been using MiniMax2.5

its pretty dope too

[inner zealot]

Solved. Or openclaw solved it. Apprently was some strange cache issue on the machine where it thought it was on another version (and thus sonnet 4.6 refused to work)

[wary osprey]

You can check this doc: https://docs.aisa.one/docs/use-openclaw-with-aisaone

[sturdy kelp]

i keep getting this error, ive tried just about everything and i cant figure it out

HTTP 401 authentication_error: Invalid bearer token (request_id: req_011CYHdg4D9dpbL7pxcHg7iG)

i have the claud subscription

[kindred gate]

Auth0 or API key?

[dense pier]

I'm assuming you're using 0auth as well

[sturdy kelp]

auth0

[kindred gate]

yea

Claude Auth0 will not work with openclaw now

anthropic banned it

going to have to us API keys now

I just found out too

[dense pier]

did it just stopped working like a few hours ago?

cuz it was still fine like 8 hours before LOL

[kindred gate]

yea i believe so

[sturdy kelp]

thanks for clearing that up, would you recommend claude api or something else?

[crisp zinc]

hello Guys, do you know if LiteLLM is supported ? I feel like i did everything right but cannot get Openclaw to run, i get to the web localhost page but it shows offline

[kindred gate]

https://www.gadgetreview.com/30b-fumble-anthropic-kills-1-5m-agent-beast-openai-poaches-creator-in-seconds

[dense pier]

got it thanks mate @kindred gate

[kindred gate]

every API can be expensive AF

[solar forge]

bro same for me idk what they did

[dense pier]

yeah dude

[kindred gate]

ive been looking into some cheap APIs like Kimi and more but i never really chose one

[dense pier]

seems like they found a way to stopped the use of it

[kindred gate]

im using openrouter at the moments

[sturdy kelp]

yea ive seen kimi

[wary osprey]

That 401 usually means the token being sent is not a valid API key for that endpoint. A Claude chat subscription does not automatically give API access. If you are calling Anthropic directly, do not use 'Authorization: Bearer ....' Anthropic expects 'x-api-key: YOUR_KEY' plus the required anthropic-version header. If you are using a router (AIsa, OpenRouter, etc), then you must use that router’s key and endpoint, not your Anthropic key. Also double check your env var is loading and the key is not blank or wrapped in quotes.

[dense pier]

anyways, i still have my Max plan and will use it in my main claude account

[wary osprey]

Not AIsa tho!

[dense pier]

MiniMax is pretty decent

but man, it ain't as smart as Opus4.6

but its 20x cheaper

[kindred gate]

I might get the Ollama 20 USD onw

[solar forge]

have you tried troubleshooting somehow?

[kindred gate]

https://www.gadgetreview.com/30b-fumble-anthropic-kills-1-5m-agent-beast-openai-poaches-creator-in-seconds

[dense pier]

yeah tried to switch to other models to get it to check what happened

[wary osprey]

I will always recommend using a unified API provider like AIsa or OpenRouter

[kindred gate]

Ive seen a skill that reduces tghe amout of tokens used but im not sure how good it is or what it was called

[teal shadow]

Anyone tried to made Oh-My-Opencode (or similar) available for OpenClaw? having a oh-my-openclaw would remove so much friction with pre-cooked agents and some logic into it

[solar forge]

yeah but claude clarified the previous system still works.

[kindred gate]

hmm. I didnt know that

[wary osprey]

but you know there's a way you can get access to Opus 4.6 and it's still 10x cheaper

[kindred gate]

how

[solar forge]

can I dm you bro?

[short tree]

Did OpenAI slow down openclaw progress? Or will it prosper as a foundation?

[kindred gate]

I have no idea. I just found this like 15 mins ago so i need to find more stuff on this

This happened all of a sudden

[storm ember]

My usage is really high, like 150-300k tokens for a simple question. Restarting does not solve it. What else can I do?

[short tree]

I missed it too. Although announced on Saturday.

[kindred gate]

Tokens used depend on how many letters and words you use

[wary osprey]

If you are using Claude directly via Anthropic, you are paying their listed API pricing. Some unified routing providers aggregate models and offer different pricing structures or lower margins, so you can access Opus through them at a lower per-token rate.

For example, AIsa is one of the routers that provides Opus access through a unified endpoint with lower cost per token compared to going direct. Same as OpenRouter

[storm ember]

How much cn is a kg salmon? 89k tokens

[kindred gate]

what providers would those be?

[wary osprey]

Unified routing providers. Providers like AIsa, OpenRouter, Together, etc. They aggregate multiple models behind one endpoint and sometimes operate on thinner margins or different pricing structures. So instead of going directly to Anthropic, you can access Opus through a routing layer. It is not always cheaper in every case, but for certain usage patterns it can reduce cost and simplify multi-model workflows.

[teal shadow]

This is typical of having 3-4-5 context files like memories lolll I have the same on OpenCode. We pay a huge price in context lenght to make it smart. You bet in the future we will have the equivalent of what CPU does with efficiency core and performance core in the sense that memory and context will be a different segment than actual token written by users

[kindred gate]

what is one you would suggest? At the moment i am using free models using OpenROUTER

[storm ember]

😁 So I can better go to another model as well?

[kindred gate]

ohhhh that explains alot. The more you use it the more tokens it will use for the same prompt

because it goes back in chat to see what is being talked about

[storm ember]

Working through your memories

[kindred gate]

??

[wary osprey]

If you are already comfortable with OpenRouter, it is good for experimenting (same as AIsa; lower costs), especially with free models. I would not tell you to switch just for the sake of switching.

but if you are thinking longer term about building more serious agent workflows, I would look at something like AIsa. It is newer, but the advantage is having a unified API layer designed specifically around agent infrastructure rather than just model aggregation. You get single API key access, pay per use, and a better way to manage multiple providers from one endpoint.

I wll always suggest AIsa tho, but OpenRouter too isn't bad

[kindred gate]

what is the website called exactly

when i type in alsa a bunch of random stuff pops up

[wary osprey]

The website is https://aisa.one

You can check it out and see how the unified API works. also have an OpenClaw skill you can integrate directly if you are building on OpenClaw too. On the website go to developer docs to check the instruction docs there.

[wary osprey]

do you think OpenClaw will continue to be open sourced after the collab with OpenAI

[kindred gate]

I vbelieve so

although you never know

take Roblox and guilded for example

[wary osprey]

well, let's continue to hope

[kindred gate]

yup

[sturdy kelp]

so for routing providers, i can access my claude subscription into an api key through them? and its used at a lower cost? trying to understand it

[short tree]

Maybe there’s a open source version. And a ”paid version”.

[kindred gate]

claude gives $5/M inpuy tokens and $25/M output tokens

othersites will reduce this proice depending on where you go

[kindred gate]

hopefully not

[wary osprey]

No, your Claude subscription does not turn into an API key. The subscription is for using Claude through Anthropic’s chat interface.

Routing providers like AIsa or OpenRouter work differently. They give you their own API key and route your requests to models on your behalf. You pay per token usage through the router’s billing system, not through your Claude subscription.

So it is not about converting your subscription but choosing which API layer you want to build on.

In some cases, routing providers can offer competitive or slightly lower effective pricing depending on their margins, batching, or infrastructure. But the bigger advantage is unified access and flexibility

[wary osprey]

we don't want a paid version, we just want to continue enjoying it the way it is now

[sturdy kelp]

that clears up a lot thank you, how expensive will claude get to?

[kindred gate]

and if they comeout with a paid version people that are using it for personal use will mostlikely go to other brandsa

[kindred gate]

depends on your token usage

but it gets there really quick

you use more tokens through the API then through the actual chat

[balmy sail]

hey guys i am new to using openclaw, whats the besst cheap model?

i've been using claude but its expensive lol

[kindred gate]

You can use cheap models or free models

I would suggest looking into openrouter and AISA

[wary osprey]

It all depends on your usage. Claude API is priced per token, so cost scales with how much input and output you generate. For example, Claude Opus is around $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens on standard pricing.

The important thing is how much context you send and how verbose your outputs are.

[wary osprey]

Hey buddy, welcome

[balmy sail]

are those relatively comparable to claude?

[balmy sail]

hey!

[wary osprey]

hahaha, everyone seems to be complaining about Claude being too expensive

[sturdy kelp]

how fast does $5/m and $25/m go? i know its hard to say based off usage but as a beginner what could i expect?

[wary osprey]

will suggest same thing @balmy sail ... You can try Kimi 2.5 on AIsa, it's way more cheaper and best if you're just starting your Agent building journey.

[kindred gate]

they use 1 key and give you access to every model you can think of

it can be GPT

Claude

Deepseek

[balmy sail]

whats the catch?

[balmy sail]

alright

[sturdy kelp]

kimi is on openrouter right?

[kindred gate]

with openrouter you have to pay a 5% fee for the total used however you could keep using free models

Not sure about AISA

[kind drift]

tried this model: https://openrouter.ai/arcee-ai/trinity-large-preview:free why does that not work in openclaw? is it okay just to get an API KEy from openrouter to test the model ?

[wary osprey]

there is not really a hidden catch, but there is a tradeoff model like with any router. You are not calling Anthropic or OpenAI directly, you are calling the routing provider, and they route your request upstream.

the benefit is simplicity. 'One API key, one endpoint, centralized billing, and the ability to switch between GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, etc without rewriting your integration each time.'

The tradeoff is you are trusting the router’s infrastructure and pricing layer instead of going direct.

[sturdy kelp]

what prompts do i put in terminal to connect openrouter api key?

[kindred gate]

you need to enter config

[short tree]

openclaw config

Pick Models

[wary osprey]

with AIsa it is pay per use and designed around agent workflows

[kindred gate]

So no free versions?

[balmy sail]

arent free versions rate limited?

[kindred gate]

not on openrouter

i havent run into them

[wary osprey]

don't have any idea about OpenRouter tho, but if you want to try AIsa you can go through this docs: https://docs.aisa.one/docs/use-openclaw-with-aisaone

[wary osprey]

free versions are mostly rate limited.

[balmy sail]

mhm

[kindred gate]

but there are limited options

so

[wary osprey]

I am not aware of a permanent free tier at the moment, but it is pay-per-use so you only pay for what you consume. Preferably works well once you are building something more serious.

[kindred gate]

i was on the site but i didnt see any free models

[rose geode]

Are there any install guides for setting up OpenClaw with LAN network access?

[kindred gate]

@balmy sail i woulf also suggest looking into Ollama

[balmy sail]

i heard about that it runs on your pc right?

[kindred gate]

yes and no

so you can install the CLI on your computer and use that to access cloud models

That is the only option i know that doesnt need API keys

however it doesnt have claude

[wary osprey]

You get $5 free credits when you sign up. This credit is mainly for you to play around and test AIsa.

[kindred gate]

nvm it does

[dense pier]

after trying the creative writing, I think Kimi 2.5 is also very very near as good as Opus / sonnet

just wanna share it out there with u guys 🙂

[balmy sail]

im looking at Alsa's website right now it seems as though Kimi2.5 is one of the most consistently used for programming.

its also pretty cheap on Alsa 0.1/million

[kindred gate]

opus is however really good Coding

[dense pier]

oh yeah bro

no doubt

[kindred gate]

full working apps within 1 prompt

even games

thats unbeatable

[balmy sail]

Kimi is more expensive on openrouter for some reason... I dont really understand how they can have different prices lol

[kindred gate]

kimi is cheap itself

[kindred gate]

different companies

[daring pivot]

They charge a %fee

[kindred gate]

yea

[balmy sail]

ill probably try out kimi first

[wary osprey]

Wait what? fr

[balmy sail]

yeah 0.13 more it seems

[wary osprey]

you can always explore AIsa's marketplace to see which one is cheaper... Kimi is cheap normally

[kind drift]

so in general is kimi or minimax good enough for openclaw`?

[dense pier]

yes

[kindred gate]

So openrouter is using other providers

everyone has different latencys and prices

[kindred gate]

yes and no

depends on what you need

[wary osprey]

At some point, once you start building for scale, your agents will need to run through an API layer rather than just executing locally on your machine

[kindred gate]

So Ollama has a 20 dollar version which give you more tokens and people have been using it without running out. but you can always get a better option or if you can find something that reduces the tokens used then it gets better

[balmy sail]

hey guys out of curiosity what are AI agents generally used for?

[kind drift]

am i naiv or would openclaw be smart enough to check for new emails every 30 mins and analyse those mails to generate a woocommerce order via mcp/restapi/openclaw skill`? in general a typical email reads like this one:
Subject: order for tommorrow
4x apples
5x onions

[kindred gate]

research

[kindred gate]

yes

[balmy sail]

but doesnt like chatgpt on your phone do research well too?

[kindred gate]

yes

everything has different reasons

people use claude for deeper web searches or coding

Kimi is good for creativity and reasoning

[haughty elbow]

Just curious if you all spend income on ai for openclaw or something of that nature? im wondering how much you all spend daily if at all?

[kindred gate]

you dont need to spend 1000s

you can spend 30 bucks and it will be enough

[noble umbra]

Hey, is there a way to set Opus-high ONLY for my main session? My agent told me that I could change the default but that it would apply for subagents, and I want to keep subagents on sonnet. Am I missing something obvious? Right now I have sonnet as default so manually change my main session to opus whenever it resets

[haughty elbow]

what model do you spend 30 bucks on if i may ask?

[wary osprey]

Yes, Kimi or MiniMax can be good enough for OpenClaw, especially for early stage agents and cost sensitive workflows. If you are doing basic automation, Q&A, or lightweight tool calls, they work fine and are cheap per token.

The thing is, as you build more serious agents, you will eventually want flexibility to switch models depending on the task (cheap model for routine steps, stronger model for hard reasoning). That is where using a unified API layer helps, because you can route multiple models through one key and one endpoint instead of rewiring your stack each time. OpenClaw already supports router style providers like OpenRouter, and you can apply the same idea with AIsa for better scaling.

[kindred gate]

Kimi has cheap APIs. even if you use it everyday for an hour you could go upto 30 USD \

maybe more

or like i said Ollama has a 20 USD version

[frigid rain]

What did you think of the combo gpt 5.3 xhigh (the mind) + glm 5 (tasks)

[kindred gate]

but Ollama has limited uses

[haughty elbow]

yeah i noticed you said that but which model api to start with? kimi or ollama?

[balmy sail]

is that per month? or daily? Im also having a hard time understanding these pricings like 0..1/million but then 3/million for output. What does this look like in terms of like chatting and project creation?

[kindred gate]

do you have a budget or are you open to free models to learn

[wary osprey]

agents are used when you want software that can think through a task, use APIs or tools, and complete something end-to-end. For example, instead of asking for a summary, an agent could gather sources, compare them, generate a report, and send it to you automatically.

[kindred gate]

it is per million tokens. you can use 1 million tokens in a year or a month. it depends on how much you will use openclaw

[haughty elbow]

I dont have a budget in mind, but ive tried locall but that hasent worked out for me due to my not so great hardware. Im fine with free as long as it gets the job done.

[kindred gate]

did you use Ollama?

I use cloud models on Ollama

[haughty elbow]

I try but as i said my hardware isint great locally.

[last notch]

Yes, totally. I ask my agent to set different models for different tasks and even different thinking types. Just ask your agent and he will adjust the config.

[balmy sail]

for example: how long does it take you to go throuh one million tokens?

[kindred gate]

tokens depend on how many workds and letters you use in your message and how much memory openclaw has

[balmy sail]

mhm...

[kindred gate]

you shouls search how do AI tokens work for a better understanding

[kindred gate]

dont download models use cloud ones. THey are limited but good for early testing or use openrouter

[azure musk]

I’m just gonna spin up another Hetzner vps does oauth for Claude still work on a VPS if I’m also running it on my Mac mini

[haughty elbow]

Ill look into it then.

[noble umbra]

huh okay, I guess it was confused the first time around. Will try it again

[last notch]

Hello guys, help me please. I'm feeling paranoid. Yesterday when I asked Openclaw to update himself, it updated to 2026.2.18, which actually doesn't exist. Then there were two conflicting versions, and then my Anthropic key fell off. In the morning I managed to fix everything, but since then, each of my requests uses tons of tokens. I'm using Anthropic subscriptions, and the tokens are flowing away like never before. I'm curious: is this a change in Anthropic policy, or is it some malicious bug I caught? Amy thoughts on Oauth anthropic token limits usage lately?

[wary osprey]

Kimi is strong in cost-to-performance ratio, but it is not always positioned as a frontier reasoning model.

[kindred gate]

it has good creativity

visual coding, complex reasoning, and agentic workflows

[wary osprey]

@haughty elbow The only thing I’d add is that once you move beyond testing, it helps to think about which API layer you want to standardize on. because using a unified provider can make switching models later much easier without refactoring your stack

[kindred gate]

you sound like a guy whos marketing AISA 😂

[worthy plover]

I am stuck with permission issues on my raspberry pi. It doesn't have all the access it needs to work on system. Telegram has the elevated permissions but still can't install docker as example.

Message I get:

Okay, I have read the configuration file. Here's what I can confirm:

• tools.elevated.enabled is set to true.
• tools.elevated.allowFrom includes both telegram and webchat, and both list "agent:main:main" as an allowed session.

Based on this, the configuration appears to be correct for allowing elevated permissions from both Telegram and webchat for the agent:main:main session.

Since the configuration seems correct, and the user is in the sudo group, the issue might be related to how OpenClaw is determining the user's permissions.

I am not able to do much more without access to internal tools for diagnostics. I will need your help. Since there are no obvious errors in the configuration, and the user has sudo privileges, the issue might be with how OpenClaw is determining the user's permissions.

[wary osprey]

1 million tokens might sounds huge, but it depends on your usage. roughly speaking 1 million tokens is about 750,000 words of English text.

examples

• If your agent sends and receives around 2,000 tokens per interaction, that is 500 interactions before you hit 1 million tokens.

• If each interaction averages 5,000 tokens because of long context or verbose outputs, that is only 200 interactions.

• If you are building an agent that loops frequently or processes documents, you can burn through 1 million tokens very fast. for small experiments, it might last weeks. for production workflows, it could finish in hours depending on traffic

[balmy sail]

yeah those are similar numbers to what i saw online.

Thanks so much for your guys help

[kindred gate]

NP

[wary osprey]

You welcome mate

[kindred gate]

HMM

no idea man

might have to search it up

[sharp sorrel]

What is a good memory system for openclaw, does anyone have any good recommendations?

[wary osprey]

looks like it means the client is detecting metadata in the conversation that it cannot verify or trust.

what you should check...

• are you using any custom providers or routing layers in your config?
• did you manually modify provider settings or headers?
• are you running the latest version of the web UI / OSX companion app?
  this sometimes appear when a custom provider is not fully configured or when the client cannot validate the metadata signature. you can also try updating the app or resetting the provider config

[plain epoch]

it also occurs when sending from discord...?

[wary osprey]

It depends on what kind of memory you’re looking for. if you just mean conversational context, the built-in message history is usually enough for short-term memory, as long as your model context window can handle it.

but if you’re building agents that need long-term recall or document retrieval, then you’ll want a vector store. most common options are things like Supabase + pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or even local Chroma if you’re experimenting.

If you need structured memory (like storing state, user profiles, task progress), then a regular database layer alongside your agent is usually better than trying to cram everything into embeddings.

[sharp sorrel]

What is the best place to learn about this stuff

[signal valve]

ive had similar issues asking my openclaw to update itself. it misconfigures, and i had to put some notes in Soul.md

[wary osprey]

If you’re starting from scratch start with...

1. LLM fundamentals: understand how tokens, context windows, embeddings, and prompt construction work. The OpenAI and Anthropic docs are actually very clear for fundamentals.

2. RAG + memory systems: also ook into 'Retrieval Augmented Generation' and how vector databases work. Supabase pgvector docs or Pinecone’s intro guides are good for practical understanding.

3. Agent frameworks: oonce you understand memory and tool-calling, then you can check out OpenClaw docs to see how agents are structured

[signal valve]

hello, just wondering if anyone thoughts on implementing a mission control? i see a few githubs, like openclaw-deck, clawtrol. just want a simple way to view what the agent is doing, and would like to add a couple specialized sub-agents and not get lost. Thanks

[full juniper]

has anyone set kimi k2.5 to be used for free on their OpenClaw?

[turbid grail]

Yo I need some help for real I’ve tried every AI in my arsenal to fix this issue and a million prompts. I’m creating a paperwork app to help with PDF paperwork and when you crop PDF template it will look one way and then when you go to print it it looks totally different. https://freeimage.host/i/q2b9Cb4
https://freeimage.host/i/q2b9HWN

[signal valve]

seems like clawtrol uses a kanban to manage coordination of agents and openclaw-deck uses a multi-column chat to talk to different agents, which would u prefer?

[rancid fjord]

is there anyway to back up openclaw and then restore on new hardware? moving from a proxmox container to an ubuntu server. I would rather not start over as i have a lot configured and running.

[shrewd phoenix]

I have worked on this problem I am having for hours on end trying to use Anthropic (and likely other) models. I can successfully use Kimi-k2.5, but even after providing my API Key and having the correct config file, this is the problem I am having using Anthropic models through the dashboard or tui:

Anthropic models return HTTP 404 when used through OpenClaw TUI/dashboard
Description:
Anthropic models fail with HTTP 404 not_found_error: Not Found when used through the TUI or dashboard, but work perfectly when called directly via the Anthropic API or through the OpenClaw gateway using PowerShell.
All workspace files (SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, MEMORY.md, TOOLS.md, USER.md, etc.) have been emptied, yet OpenClaw still injects a 12,501 character hardcoded system prompt into every Anthropic request. This appears to be what Anthropic is rejecting.

[young nebula]

I have the ChatGPT plus plan but I get a 429 error when trying to use codex saying quota exceeded but on the website it says I have 100% of my 5 hour usage remaining

[shrewd phoenix]

Are you trying to use Codex via the API or the web interface?

[young nebula]

Well I have an API key

[shrewd phoenix]

the plus plan and API use are separate things

[young nebula]

So how can I get openclaw to use the plus plan?

[shrewd phoenix]

I have plus too but if I want to use codex I have to go through the web

I haven't gotten that set up yet but I've been told you can have it interact on the web

[young nebula]

Oh well that’s useless. Just wasted $20

[shrewd phoenix]

I'm saying openclaw can still do it

for you

[young nebula]

I can’t get openclaw to do stuff on the web

[shrewd phoenix]

you don't have a Brave Browser key?

that's worked for me

[young nebula]

No I do

[shrewd phoenix]

maybe you can use something like Cursor too, which is free

[lean orchid]

Have someone installed openclaw on android?

[shrewd phoenix]

and maybe openclaw can focus the cursor window with codex and interface with it

[shrewd phoenix]

maybe try having openclaw copy and read codex output on cursor and then paste commands into it?

[young nebula]

What’s cursor

[shrewd phoenix]

I'm sure there is an easy solution for you I can get back to you when I talk to my friend who has it working

[shrewd phoenix]

it's an IDE

[young nebula]

Ok let me know

[hearty holly]

Is there a way to request iOS preview app? I searched discord but didn’t anything specific

[solar forge]

I figured out how to fix Claude Max Sub issues with Openclaw @dense pier

[thick jewel]

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm running OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi (Linux) and created a custom skill called ossi-garmin. The skill shows as eligible in the Control UI under Workspace Skills, but the agent completely ignores it in chat.

Setup:

• Raspberry Pi, Ubuntu/Linux
• OpenClaw 2026.2.14
• Model: google/gemini-2.5-flash
• Skill location: ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/ossi-garmin/SKILL.md

SKILL.md frontmatter:

---
name: ossi-garmin
description: Reads Garmin fitness data from a JSON file and sends a WhatsApp summary.
user-invocable: true
metadata: {"openclaw": {"always": true}}
---

Problem:
When I ask the agent "Which skills do you have?", it only lists the 5 bundled skills (healthcheck, skill-creator, video-frames, wacli, weather) — never ossi-garmin.

openclaw skills list shows it as ✓ ready and openclaw skills info ossi-garmin shows 📦 ossi-garmin ✓ Ready.

I've tried:

• Renaming file to SKILL.md ✓
• Adding always: true to metadata ✓
• Moving skill to workspace/skills/ ✓
• Full reboot ✓
• New chat sessions ✓

Is this a known issue with Gemini models not picking up custom skills from the system prompt? Any help appreciated! 🙏

[little blade]

Google Key

[neon jolt]

All setup, pretty easy. One main thing though, you have to manually disable the first-run onboarding script in the Ubuntu bash profiles, or it will keep triggering the setup wizard every time you SSH in for a tunnel.

just used the openclaw image, updated it, and did the above

[lapis sand]

Hi guys, after update my oauth claude max stop working and I can't fix it

Do u know how to fix it?

[haughty elbow]

how well are free models or apis for openclaw compared to paid ones, for example openrouter free models.

[vague wave]

Hey this might be sily but how do I get the bowser TUI back?

[azure musk]

Why is openrouter so much more shit then codex and claude does anyone have a guide on proper configuration?

[solid kiln]

its free mate. By far the best thing I did was buy a subscription to a top tier model. connect it to openclaw then just ask it for help

[final lark]

Is it a nonstarter to try to run an agent with only a local model on a mac mini? I've been trying a few models and none seem to have any awareness. qwen2.5-coder outright said "NO" to the wake up message

[twilit moat]

Did OpenClaw remove two way support for Whatsapp Communication? I can't seem to send messages to OpenClaw from WhatsApp.

[final lark]

Hey this might be sily but how do I get

[thorn iris]

I’ve had my bot for about 3 weeks. And I feel like he sucks. I’ve downloaded what I feel like everything that it needs. It can’t even browse the web.

Should I just start over and create a new one?

Seems like others are doing really cool projects and mine can’t do anything but send me files on teaching me how to do things.

[tiny rose]

For auto server restart, in the docs it shows two places for "restart", in tools and gateway. Do I need both?

[vague wave]

so are people using Oauth still?

[true blaze]

yo um i'm trying to set up openclaw (In terminal, then I'll move to discord) but it keeps saying (no output), any solutions?

[celest frost]

which minimax model is best and what coding plan is best bang for buck?

[ashen plaza]

whats peoples experience using imessage? Should i just skip it and go straight to slack/telegram?

[grave tree]

Why am I getting API rate limit reached messages on my fully local Mac mini 16GB setup with ollama/qwen2.5-coder:7b setup? Have tried aligning 32k context for ollama with qwen, and testing the 14b model does not help either. Thoughts?? Suggestions??

[lusty dove]

⚠️ API rate limit reached. Please try again later.

[tranquil copper]

can someone help me resolve this issue

getting this when sending message via discord

l_r00t_l

— 00:17
hi @openclaw-bot
openclaw-bot

APP
— 00:17
⚠️ Agent failed before reply: No API key found for provider "glm-5". Auth store: /home/node/.openclaw/agents/main/agent/auth-profiles.json (agentDir: /home/node/.openclaw/agents/main/agent). Configure auth for this agent (openclaw agents add <id>) or copy auth-profiles.json from the main agentDir.
Logs: openclaw logs --follow

Hey l_r00t_l! What's up? 👋

[cyan hamlet]

anyone know how to get the testflight companion app?

[true blaze]

I'm trying to set up openclaw in Teams, but keep getting Error: spawn EINVAL

[vague wave]

using slack

it is nice but buggy

had to go back to gateway dashboard to fix minor bugs

[narrow sleet]

I'm thinking about changing my oAtuth to a Api key in my configuration if I do that will it break my current agent? Otherwise it looks like I'll be waiting till the end of the month to finish my project.

[narrow sleet]

Yeah I'm still using oauth and I was getting along fine until I started working on a larger project last night.

[rapid palm]

Is anyone using voice call with Telnyx?

I can make and recieve calls then it stops working

[celest sand]

Any way to use Gemini subscription in Openclaw?

[rapid palm]

OpenClaw Voice Call Issues (2026.02.17)
The Problem: Outbound calls via openclaw voicecall and Gateway RPC are failing due to port conflicts and stuck call states.

Key Issues

Port 3334 Conflict: openclaw voicecall fails with EADDRINUSE because the Gateway (PID 26433) often holds the port. Even after openclaw gateway stop, the port remains bound until the PID is manually killed.

Stuck Call State: When the port is free, the CLI reports Error: Maximum concurrent calls (1) reached. However, there is no way to clear this:

status requires a --call-id.

list is not a valid command.

No logs exist in ~/.openclaw/logs/voice-call*.jsonl to find a call-id.

RPC Failures: voicecall.initiate via Gateway returns a generic "unknown error." Logs show a "duplicate plugin id" warning, suggesting a conflict between the CLI and Gateway instances.

Questions for the Community

How do you resolve the "Maximum concurrent calls (1) reached" error when no call-id or logs are available?

Is there a config setting to change the webhook port (3334) to avoid Gateway/CLI conflicts?

Where can call-id history be found if the standard JSONL logs are missing? #support

[violet pilot]

for some reason my browser relay keeps disconnecting now all of a sudden. it was fine a couple days ago, but now it detaches on every website i attach it to and try to run some tasks. i just don't get it.

[south cloud]

has anybody watching this channel used either/both LM Studio and Oobabooga to run LLMs locally?

[wide sand]

is it standard practice to share skills across agents or should you not?

[quick fulcrum]

Telegram and Discord collab

[sly whale]

Is okay to share skills from Clawhub , can copy the morkdown and give it to your agent in your messaging app

[vague wave]

Why is my slack app double replying:
Q
APP Just now
Yep, loud and clear! 👍 (edited)
12:54
Yep, loud and clear! 👍

[abstract escarp]

Running OpenClaw 2026.2.17 on Linux. Sub-agents fail to spawn with error: gateway closed (1008): pairing required (loopback target ws://127.0.0.1:18789). Gateway is running with bind: loopback, auth.mode: token. Main agent works fine via Telegram. Sub-agent sessions never come online. Any fix?

[fallow panther]

Can somebody tell me why I get HTTP 401: User not found when using Openrouter?!

[fallen warren]

same issue this morning i just restart gateway, unload then load model and it was ok

hope that work for you

[thorny solar]

How can I revoke access after acept a pairing code on whatsapp or telegram? There's no reference to that on the help of the pairing command.

[hollow shore]

Im new here, please bare with me, been using Claude and I have been getting this error FailoverError: ⚠️ API rate limit reached. Please try again later."

[rose geode]

any idea how to get rid of this untrusted metadate error?

[unborn remnant]

you have to get more credits at claude

[hollow shore]

I have 20 dollars to spend

[spare wasp]

Hi, I'm new here. Is there a way to inject my own skills, for example, to complete tasks in a CRM I have?

[unborn remnant]

Did you get a reply from claude that you have to adjust your limits? I had 75 EUR on it and the same issue. After I adjustet the setting it was up and running

[inner gust]

20 is not enough

[unborn remnant]

for the first couple of question it is. If you use sonnet it is enough to try it out.

[spare wasp]

can someone help me?

[hollow shore]

How do i do this on claude?

[unborn remnant]

got to https://console.claude.ai/ and than scroll on the left side all the way down to limits and settings.

[clear gull]

Hello 👋 im new here. How do I get access to TestFlight iOS app ? Please advise. Thank you 🙏

[unborn remnant]

I tried to screenshot it for you, but console seems not to open here at the moment.

[warm cedar]

Hey! Requesting iOS TestFlight access. I'm running a full OpenClaw setup — VPS gateway (2026.2.17) on Hostinger with a paired MacBook Pro node, Telegram channel, the works. Would love to pair my iPhone as a node for Talk Mode and Voice Wake on the go. Is there any way to get TestFlight access to the iOS app? Thanks!

[royal anvil]

Anyone know much it would cost to set up openclaw and use it daily ?

[teal shadow]

Team, what is the name of the npm package or service that allow me to generate beautiful doc pages like this one https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform

From a markdown repo you know

[teal shadow]

Depends on your Cron situation, for me the API keys was a lot, I prefer to use the auth with Codex

[unborn remnant]

first get it up and running. I used a very old PC and put Virtual Box on it to run Linux. That is free and save. than you need anthropic or openAI API Key to get your first answers. And if you don't want or can't run a local model (witch would be on a very expensive computer) you have to spend 5-15 EUR a day - depending on your usage of models and usecases.

[royal anvil]

I already have a gpt plus subscription

[teal shadow]

Then you will have a good time with OpenClaw

It shouldnt throttle too much

[royal anvil]

What if I use a VPS

[royal anvil]

Are there any other costs I’d have to worry about you think?

[austere birch]

Does anyone have a solution to my browser extension/relay not working? Tried everything under the sun but still not working. When I am on the OpenClaw Browser Relay page (the one that shows you the relay port), the extension works (comes on and stays on). On any other page, it just shows the red exclamation mark).

[civic harbor]

HI guys, to link OUTLOOK mail box to openclaw is it a big deal ? What skill / process should I use pls?

[teal shadow]

No friend its pretty much free going from there

other (optional) costs would be like

bigger Exa web search key if you run out of their free service

better whisper engine if you want to voice chat with it

things like that

[unborn remnant]

Than you can run it there.

[hollow shore]

Would you recommend using Linux, or can this be done on a windows machine?

[unborn remnant]

But you will have to pay for the server and for the compute and the ram ++++

[teal shadow]

I use WSL personally with TMUX and I detach that session after.

[royal anvil]

Oh alright okay thank you!

[hollow shore]

wsl? or wsl2?

[royal anvil]

Yeah true, costs like $10 CAD a month for a decent one I think

[teal shadow]

its compatible with wsl2 no worry

[unborn remnant]

I didn't get it up running on my old pc. But when I instaled Linux on Windows 10 it runs super smooth - amazing. It is easy! I never ever did anything bevore with linux. If I can do it - you can do it 😄

[proud ether]

Bot randomly crashed on me when I attempted to test sub agents, just not responding (nothing to do with API keys), now I am running into gateway errors. Being completely different and borderline useless, anyone came across similar issues.
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling but just keep fucking it up

[unborn remnant]

I had a similar problem. I ran into Rate Limits because all the subagents prompted and burned Tokens. After I killed the session it was working again. But your issue sounds slightly diffrent.

[proud ether]

Yeah, I now crash when attempting to launch in tui, 'gateway connect failed: Error: pairing required'
right after I have configured the bot?

[unborn remnant]

is it working?

[proud ether]

works in browser just not in terminal.

Lot slower in browser...

[surreal coyote]

Has anyone seen this error with antigravity models?

Cloud Code Assist API error (400): Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "patternProperties" at 'request.tools[0].function_declarations[3].parameters.properties[2].value': Cannot find field.

Would appreciate any help

[wide sand]

i meant for them to share the skills on the backend of things

[wispy sapphire]

Hi there, Im not a builder, Im a principal designer looking to create content and wanted to tinker with open claw safely. I have been looking for a good guide to install on a mac mini and or talk to someone about how and what I only give it access too. Im afraid.

Given that, I want it to generate content in videos possibly, ai prompts etc. The things Im learning is that OpenClaw will use alot of credits etc and not sure how to set this all up where it doesnt eat up everything.

Not only that, I think I can manage the setup process but after that Im lost. What skills would you recommend that are safe, and that I could potentially get it to do for me that would help my workload.

Thank you in advance helpful humans.

[bold cradle]

14:05:32 Embedded agent failed before reply: All models failed (2): openai/gpt-5.1-codex: 401 Incorrect API key provided: sk-xxxx.... You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys. (auth) | openai/gpt-5.2-chat-latest: 401 Incorrect API key provided: sk-xxxx.... You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys. (auth)

any reason i keep getting this? I havent been able to use the dahsboard once

[hollow shore]

Cant change the settings

[finite condor]

Is there a best practice on writing a skill that would basically be a wrapper for an api doc? So that claw can then use the api itself?

Whatever I tried usually fails miserably beyond hello world -_-

[rancid fjord]

anyone know a valid way to back up a system so you can "import" it into a new install? ive been at this all bloody day.

[thorny solar]

Can anybody help me?

[south cloud]

I'm still playing with other aspects of openclaw to learn what's under the hood and haven't set up whatsapp or telegram yet, (so take this with a gain of salt) delete the options from your openclaw.json

then restart openclaw with the edited openclaw.json. That should disable them

[noble umbra]

Has anyone got their agent to use codex as its main model?

I'm killing my anthropic tokens, but have tons of codex tokens

[twilit ether]

Is there any doctors I can hire to help me get my agent out of a coma? He’s 9 days old and he’s broken bad.

I destroyed my open claw Mac Mini setup. I’m $1100 in API credits.

-every time I turn on the Mac app, a log bomb detonates a 500mb log in minutes
-web app won’t connect
-agent moved to new session and forgot who he was
-agent can’t control the Mac anymore
-Claude cowork can’t figure it out

I need an expert to rescue us.

[spare wasp]

Is there a way to inject skills for specific API tasks? For example, a mutation that does something, and pass it to the bot as a skill?

[vocal ingot]

hi, im using openclaw with ollama cloud llms. does someone know how i can get qwen3 vl to analyze pictures on telegram? i told openclaw to build a skill with minimax, but it didnt work...

[short tree]

I usually tell openclaw that specific API documentation is a skill.

[balmy sail]

hey guys can someone help me out i got an APi key from Aisa, and I want to use Kimi 2.5, when i install openclaw, which model do i select? custom provider?

[wide sand]

how are yall handling the issue with editing skills? openclaw agent says he updates them but he really doesnt then that hard work gets lost

[young nebula]

So my bot got stupid overnight somehow. Like it keeps lying to me saying it swaps to another model when it doesn’t and can’t pull basic info from an api request that it used to be able to

[prisma scaffold]

does anyone know what gemini model i gotta use now

its telling me it doesnt support the 2.5-flash-preview-09-2025

[dull spruce]

try google/gemini-3-flash-preview

[wary sapphire]

If I wanted to use openclaw on 1 main pc and then have 3 raspberry pis connected are subagents the best way for the main computer to use the raspberry pis and divide up work?

[dull spruce]

divide it into 3rds 😛

[smoky torrent]

Just got things setup today on a Mac mini. Pretty much a newbie here but does it feel normal to consume 50k token when I just message my assistant in telegram and ask « say two words » and it responds « hi there ». Not sure at all what’s happening behind the scenes but that seems a bit much?

[wary sapphire]

But with sub agents?

[wary sapphire]

yep

its doing a lot behind the sceen

[smoky torrent]

At a high level do you know what?

[wary sapphire]

Its loading the whole soul file and possible running tool calls.

[dull spruce]

it's all black magic

run a /compact

[smoky torrent]

What does this do ?

[wary sapphire]

Anyone here running subagents and know how much they help / work

I just want my bot to be able to do more

[dull spruce]

i mean, if I told you it compacts things, would you believe me?

it summarizes your running memory, stores short term to long term, etc

i like running my bot on a vm so I can snapshot it frequently

[smoky torrent]

How much are y’all spending weekly to do something useful?

[dull spruce]

i think you can do a "/compact (prompt)" too... so you can tell it what to compact and offload

[dull spruce]

100 bucks?

I had about a day of heavy usage that ended up not bearing fruit, so I'm not sure what the burn rate would be once I get things to a point where I dont need to train it anymore

I actually don't like to look at my spend

Dont like to look at credit card statements either

Or birthday cards

[smoky torrent]

Is there a channel where people showcase their use cases?

[dull spruce]

https://discord.com/channels/1456350064065904867/1456609488202105005

[smoky torrent]

Lololol

Sorry

[dull spruce]

water is wet too

[flat raven]

Anyone here have a solid way to connect and leave my Mac mini as a headless operator? I want to leave it and control it from my Mac book but it’s so difficult, I’ve tried LAN, tailscale and just constant gate way errors

[dull spruce]

its on a private network right?

[flat raven]

Correct

[dull spruce]

can't you just screenshare?

or once you configure the node web page to allow you to browse on the LAN, you'll generate a request

listed under openclaw devices list

you'll see your machine in that list as pending.... then openclaw devices approve request_ID

[unborn pilot]

This maybe https://medium.com/@rentierdigital/anthropic-just-killed-my-200-month-openclaw-setup-so-i-rebuilt-it-for-15-9cab6814c556?sk=05828df7b5984db386142478b04a4860

[craggy matrix]

anybody swapped from claude sub to openai sub and found their experience worse? bot doesnt operate the same.. doesnt print out 'thinking' less interactive ect.. is this just a difference in models or am i doing something wrong, i always comms though disc if that changes anything

[urban sluice]

how do people deal with their clawd hitting captchas for many taskss. is there a skill to solve captchas lmao

[vagrant grove]

I broke my homie

I added my openai oauth this morning with openclaw configure. It nuked my other providers and also turned my agent into a chatbot that can't execute anything 😭 I spent all day trying to figure out why I'm now asking for mercy from you fine people

[graceful dock]

Hey guys I’m getting this error: “gateway connect failed: Error: pairing required”. Does anyone know how to fix it?

[signal jasper]

someone know how to turn on the chrome extension automatically without actuall clicking on it?

[tired plaza]

anybody know of a "best practices" list being maintained anywhere related to memory, agent task queues, agent separation, etc.?

[craggy matrix]

this happened to me yesterday, i had to do a full reinstall

[steady seal]

Hi guys. I in am in the process of setting up the main "Orchestrator" agent that will just have the task of forwarding messages to the correct agents

Is there some example of the md files for this

[vagrant grove]

What did you "save" and what was the extent of the reinstall I guess.

Just need to mentally prepare and don't wanna really start over as much as I can help it

[craggy matrix]

i did save alll my 'clawd' and agent .md files. i used codex to help me wipe all existing file paths and processers from the machine. then i startedd againt from scratch and loaded in all their md files as i remade all my 'agents' it was a process andd im not exactly happy with the transition from anthropic to openai its not at all the same from my experience so far.. trying to fix it though

[inland knot]

Does anyone know how to let openclaw take control of a user window? Ik about relay extension but it’s so slow and useless for me since you have to manually press “on” every time you want it to work on a tab.

[vagrant grove]

Ugh yeah I finally feel like I got it where I wanted it and had things setup and boom all broken in an instant.

The funny thing is every other time it's labotamized itself I've been able to bring it back but this time is something special.

[craggy matrix]

yea man 100% i thought it was dead a few times over the last few weeks but was always able to fix it. nothing i did yesterday worked. i would be like 'ok go run this script' and it would say 'ok' and id be like... 'did you do it ?' 'no' 'why' 'yes sorry i should have' 'do it' 'ok' ect ect... let me know if you find a fix or anysort ill do the same

[vagrant grove]

And it makes no sense on what even happened

I will definitely dm you or tag you here if I find anything

Sorta praying for a changelog update now I'm not the only one

[carmine epoch]

Any way to change the gui colors for the web gateway dashboard from red highlights to something else?

[hollow sparrow]

I mainly want to use Claw for emailing clients and coding, do yall suggest I install it on my macbook or in a VPS?

[proven holly]

Out of curiosity, I have a bunch of mods I am creating via skills. I think they'd be great as default parts of the application/interface. Anyone know how I might submit those for consideration?

[wild briar]

I keep getting ⚠️ API rate limit reached. Please try again later. I am running Kimi2.5 through Ollama. I haven't even used Openclaw in the last 24 hours. Does anyone know how to fix this

[drowsy gorge]

Anyone having any issues of bulk messages coming through at the end of task? No streaming throughout the process? Can see in realtime on desktop but in telegram they all come through at once at the end

[drowsy gorge]

It should have its own instance/machine imo

[brave trench]

In Windows Powershell, when I trype "wsl" then enter and it takes me to the Linux side, how do I retrieve the Openclaw terminal or communicate with Openclaw? It doesn't recognize any of the commands??

[wary sapphire]

Has anyone gotten subagents working well? I have 1 main pc and then 3 raspberry pi 5s wih 16gb of ram and I want the main guy to manage the other ones with subagents. I think that this is the best way

[gloomy pulsar]

I was asked how I wanted to hatch my bot and I put “hatch in tui” and now it sways gateway connect failed error: pairing required can anyone help me fix this ?

[golden wharf]

Dogg why does this container image have to get in my way so badly?

[celest frost]

can someone help me change my clawdbot from my open ai api to minimax

[odd trout]

anyone willing to share their soul? 🤣

working to get a more refined assistant type running for me.

[storm loom]

Bros, I need a solution for reading X posts/articles. What do you have for me?

[tender sedge]

Try looking at the agents auth-profiles.json file and check if the auth is configured for the specific agent

[desert ibex]

is having high ram would help to make the ai work faster or no?

or internet speed?

[tender sedge]

hey guys, has anyone managed to correctly configure agent-to-agent communications? The trouble i am having now is that: Agent A communicates directly with Agent B, but for that Agent A uses Agent B main session. In that case, the user's communication with Agent B gets mixed with Agent A and Agent B comms.
I want the agents to have DMs just as workers in a company would

[trim carbon]

Is anyone here running a multi‑agent setup? What’s the best way to approach multi‑agent scoping. Can this be done on a single install/instance, or is it easier to spin up separate VMs? Since a single instance shares core components like identity, memory, and tools, it seems like it could get overly complicated if everything runs together. If I can simply spin up additional VMs and keep each agent isolated, then introduce them to each other as needed, that feels cleaner. But is that separation achievable within a single instance? Thoughts? PS. I can see https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/multi-agent but in practice how good is that? Feel like VM isolation would be cleanest...

[upbeat pelican]

Hey everyone! I have been running into an issue. So I use vercel API but it comes up with I need to buy more credits. Whats a free api that everyone is using?

[storm loom]

Netlify or Fly.io

[stark hawk]

Anyone getting the security error that says to use wss:// for the gateway URL after the upgrade to 2026.2.19-2? It happens when trying to use bind to lan. I know the security risk but my setup isn't connected to the Internet. I cannot find any info on how to change to use wss://

[viral trout]

I’m having trouble getting started can someone help?

[fickle skiff]

hey yall very happy to be part of the community, i was wondering if anyone could help me with setting up open claw on mac os through LUME VM

[indigo nebula]

Ask your openclaw to configure it for you but the options are…

1. Easiest & most common: Tailscale + built-in support (strongly recommended)
2. Using a reverse proxy that terminates TLS (nginx, Caddy, Traefik, etc.)
3. Cloudflare Tunnel / Cloudflared

[fickle skiff]

or if there is a guide for that type of setup

[ionic oasis]

Just wanted to check, which models are youll using openclaw with and how much is it costing for a month. Are you hitting usage limits

[pliant abyss]

I'm having problems with setting gpt-5-mini as the default model . I am forced to be on nexos api for some reason. Context: I am on hostinger vps.
any help? Kodee (ai support) is just giving me loops and we haven't solved it.

[zinc burrow]

Hey guys... I'm showing "disconnected (1008): pairing required" in the OpenClaw Gateway Dashboard.... I'm trying to connect through Docker. Tried several updates to the docker-compose.yml and no luck... anyone else run into this issue?

[dry sable]

Ran new update and pairing on agents went down. Ran restart of onboarding, stopped started gateway and still same problem then when agent triaged the gate way won’t start at all now

Says gateway with mode invalid input

[obsidian sparrow]

Anyone getting Gemini 3.1 to work?

[dry sable]

Reset the gateway auth?

[strong epoch]

Set the OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN in your .env with the token dashboard you got, then restart the docker

[dry sable]

Dashboard is down so do in terminal correct?

[dry sable]

Same issue for me but now getting gateway auth mode invalid inputs

[azure cosmos]

Anyone know if Openclaw's WebUI allows Agent's the post images to the web interface that are viewable (not image hosted by a web app or nginx). My agent searched the updates and git, it seems to think it can do it but unable to get it working.

[wary sapphire]

I need this lol

[rough flame]

3.1 gemini anyone?

[dry sable]

Solved issue something with update and security update

[torpid swift]

is openclaw able to shop online? Open a website and add something to a cart? (I would do the checkout myself ;))

[zinc burrow]

and @strong epoch ... i confirmed the OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN was in there and correct in my .env @dry sable, what exactly did you update? docker?

[fervent flame]

anyone know how to fix disconnected (1006) : no reason

[zinc burrow]

Ahhh I fixed it by adding network_mode: host to both the gateway and node in the .yml!

[topaz blade]

Hello nerds! Looking for developers to help implement a few agents. Any body looking for a project?

[misty violet]

Openclaw isn't responding what shall I do

[gaunt rover]

has anyone encountered gateway issue (1008): pairing required

[quiet edge]

Are folks using their ChatGPT subscriptions as oauth or signing up for the OpenAI api? Right now my business subscription gets rate limited harshly with 5.3 codex using oauth login

[frozen sparrow]

after update always this error

09:32:10 [tools] read failed: ENOENT: no such file or directory, access 'C:\Users\User.openclaw\workspace\WORKFLOW_AUTO.md'

[royal oar]

can i make him to use facebook and message others?

[icy cosmos]

Keep hitting API Rate limit , why? how to fix ?
using opus 4.6

it happend with others too

[edgy haven]

Ask claw to create a fallback to openrouter/free
Or set a cooldown limit

[winter birch]

same here

Even with ChatGPT Pro

[lost wind]

Use the CLI to approve your device requests.

[last seal]

so claude being chosen shows the on config -> all settings page:

cant copy paste image

but on the models page I cant see claude beign chosen? why is that?

should show on both

[frozen sparrow]

wtf my openclaw told me my skill isnot enable but in config in skills its enable how to fix it ?

[royal oar]

can i make him to use facebook and message others?

[storm loom]

Signed up to Kimi's basic plan but there's no API or Oauth. Is Openrouter the only source of API?

I ask because Kimi's getting expensive on Openrouter although its amazing

[hexed kindle]

Yet another token burning question:

I know people think OpenClaw eats tokens. What I still don’t understand is why it eats so many.
For context I’m a relatively advanced agentic AI user and software engineer of 13 years. I’ve been using Claude Code since launch. I understand context windows and compaction intimately. I use OpenClaw via the TUI and am constantly aware of my context window usage.

That said, in a relatively short session with no cron jobs, I burned through 40% of my session usage. Yes, I was on Opus 4.6, and I know prompt caching isn’t supported in this setup, but it still seems significantly higher than other approaches.

Am I missing something?

[last seal]

ok so I just clicked on the "raw" button in the config page and followed this instruction to configure xAI grok 4.1 fast: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/discussions/9294

I followed this comment and it works great: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/discussions/9294#discussioncomment-15722209

[storm ember]

i burned 32 million tokens yesterday and disabled auto top-up 😉

[storm loom]

Openclaw is just the platform. The token burn is coming from your agent(s), cron jobs and heartbeats

There are other factors like memory, how config files are saved/indexed and general application bloat

https://x.com/johann_sath/status/2024558974151119029 - follow this. I did

[crisp wing]

@johann_sath via Twitter

Johann Sathianathen (@johann_sath)

using OpenClaw?
︀︀
︀︀setup these 3 cron jobs today:
︀︀
︀︀1. session cleanup (every 72 hours)
︀︀→ deletes bloated session files that slow down your agent
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︀︀2. daily security audit (every morning)
︀︀→ checks firewall, fail2ban, SSH, open ports, docker status
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︀︀3. silent backups (every 2 hours)
︀︀→ git push your workspace so you never lose config/memory

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FxTwitter · Feb 19, 2026, 6:57 PM

[storm loom]

I'm not Johann btw

Tip: use cron jobs over heartbeats and switch to a cheap model. Cron doesn't need a heavy duty model

[merry lynx]

Anyone following Tech with Tims setup

I tried to setup that way using this video but Im stuck on this error
when i do
openclaw logs --follow

i get this error :
gateway connect failed: Error: pairing required
Gateway not reachable. Is it running and accessible?

[tall glacier]

Can the openclaw agent be added to whatsapp groups ? And answer queries from group members?

[untold rover]

Hey everyone, been using OpenClaw with the Claude Max plan ($100) for about a month now and it's been incredible, my daily tasks are pretty repetitive and I was never even close to hitting session or weekly limits.

But something changed yesterday. Every small prompt now seems to eat a massive chunk of my usage, and I'm constantly hitting limits to the point where it's basically unusable. I've tried a bunch of things to debug it but nothing has helped.

Anyone else experiencing something similar? Any ideas on what might have changed or how to fix it?

Also considering trying the $100 Kimi K2.5 sub as a fallback, does anyone know if that one works well with OpenClaw?

[storm loom]

Restart the gateway

And it looks like you haven't paired an access point. If you want the easiest route-start with Telegram

Get Telegram working then you can add the others later

[last seal]

Gabriel

[lucid lark]

Hi i am running openclaw in a docker container using docker-compose behind a nginx reverse proxy.

and this is the output of openclaw security audit:

❯ clawdock-shell
node@b7c1edd78c05:/app$ openclaw security audit --deep

🦞 OpenClaw 2026.2.10 (unknown) — I can't fix your code taste, but I can fix your build and your backlog.

OpenClaw security audit
Summary: 0 critical · 1 warn · 1 info
Run deeper: openclaw security audit --deep

WARN
gateway.trusted_proxies_missing Reverse proxy headers are not trusted
  gateway.bind is loopback and gateway.trustedProxies is empty. If you expose the Control UI through a reverse proxy, configure trusted proxies so local-client checks cannot be spoofed.
  Fix: Set gateway.trustedProxies to your proxy IPs or keep the Control UI local-only.

Anybody know a fix?

[full compass]

just spent like 2 hours debugging a "pairing required" error after updating openclaw to 2026.2.19-2 on my ubuntu VPS, figured id share incase anyone else hits this

if you run sudo openclaw update and then get pairing required (1008) when trying to run any CLI command, the issue is that v2026.2.19 changed auth to default to token mode now, and the update running as sudo messes up file ownership + creates root-owned cache files. your CLI ends up with a stale device identity that has the wrong scopes for the new version.
the fix that actually worked:

sudo rm -rf /tmp/jiti
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.openclaw
systemctl --user stop openclaw-gateway.service
rm -rf ~/.openclaw/devices/
rm -rf ~/.openclaw/identity/
openclaw gateway install --force
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user start openclaw-gateway.service

the key thing i was missing were clearing both ~/.openclaw/devices/ AND ~/.openclaw/identity/. just deleting one of them dosent work because the CLI keeps reconnecting with its old device identity that has outdated scopes, and the gateway rejects the scope upgrade with "pairing required".

also heads up -- the systemctl --user unavailable: Failed to connect to bus error you see right after sudo openclaw update is normal and harmless - I hope? sudo cant access your user dbus session, thats just how linux works. you restart the gateway yourself afterwords as your normal user.
protip: always run openclaw gateway install --force after updating. the systemd unit doesnt auto-update and will still point to the old version's entry point, which causes MODULE_NOT_FOUND crashes.

I guess the fact that my assistant-partner-wingman does not have access to root contributes to this?

[tight radish]

has anyone found a workaround to continue using the claude max subscription with open claw?

I keep getting 401 authentication errors. I know of friends who don't have that issue.

The proxy solution doesn't allow you to use any tools such as web search and similar which makes it unusable.

Anyone has had any success?

[jolly lion]

{
"message_id": "d7adc8c1-fdb8-417b-b0e4-ed629f08c751",
"sender": "openclaw-control-ui"
}

I keep getting this message from my agent and he can't do any tasks. How do I fix this?

[unique pebble]

2026.2.19-2

[shut dagger]

what do you use Claude or COdex or nay other?

[hexed kindle]

Did some more digging into this, it's almost certainly because Anthropic doesn't support prompt caching via the Claude Max subscription.

That's why it seems to use so much more for similar usage compared to Claude Code.

[terse dragon]

Hey guys, anyone seen error like this: "Context overflow: prompt too large for the model. Try /reset (or /new) to start a fresh session, or use a larger-context model. " I tried to change model and runed doctor, with --fix, updated, same problem.

[hexed kindle]

You need to compact

[jolly lion]

Openclaw and Ollama

[viscid gust]

help me ....

[shut dagger]

in telegram you should have bot command
/compact

[potent flare]

How can I install the Apple Watch app? I already have Lumiere on my iPhone

[elder stone]

Hi, on 2026.2.19-2 version I am getting duplicate Slack replies for short messages plus slack-stream: failed to stop stream: missing_recipient_team_id errors even with streaming disabled and Agents off — anyone else seeing this?

[magic cedar]

Keep maxing out my budget on this thing how guys running this api keys monthly subscriptions how ?

[robust pewter]

same question deposited 20$ on openAi api
in 1 day 15$ are out

[magic cedar]

This can’t be the answer unless we all gotta be rich to use this

[hard bear]

Is anyone running llm locally?

Is anyone using minimax

[magic cedar]

Are using it to code for you… I need to to connect to my cursor and it told me this I can't access your cursor directly — I'm a text-based AI assistant. However, I can help you with:

1. Ollama model: qwen3:8b (local, no API costs)
2. iMessage: Live and working
3. Gateway: Stable and running
4. File operations: Read/write/edit files
5. System commands: Run terminal commands
6. Model interactions: Use Ollama

[magic cedar]

I’m using ollama locally but it’s junk I’m looking to a better way to run this

[robust pewter]

I guess to use local you need to have such a nice pc,cuz while prompting ur pc will be so laggy

[compact hawk]

anyone using antigravity having problems now? just today it doesnt work anymore

[hard bear]

What gpu do u have and what agent are you running?

I tried it with my laptop and some of the replies make it sound like it needs help

[magic cedar]

I’m running it on my Mac mini and it’s so slow like 5-10mim to replay to a text I gave it a task to check my code files and it crashed this is without a api key the moment I use the api things a instant but costly

[hard bear]

Yes

Do you know what mode you are running?

[magic cedar]

I don’t actually what mode should I be in ?

[hard bear]

I’m on the same boat

[wary osprey]

Yeah, this happens more than people expect.

even in short sessions, OpenClaw can stack tokens from hidden steps; planning, tool calls, retries, and sometimes reloading workspace context. If you’re on Opus and caching isn’t supported, that can also spike usage.

btw, are you running subagents or heavy tools like browser/search?

[wary osprey]

A few things to check:

1. Are retries enabled?
2. Any background tasks or cron jobs running?
3. Large tool outputs being injected back into context?

Agents can multiply calls even in short sessions. It’s also worth setting hard per-session token limits while testing

[hexed kindle]

Honestly it was a very simple session. Planning a crm. Sonnet subagent did 1 search. No code writing.

In Claude code I'll frequently ask 10 subagents to research the web, analyze my 300,000 line codebase, debate each other via agent teams.

Convinced this is a prompt caching thing.

[ornate hill]

Hi! Any idea how to add my OC discord bot to this server? I need to find someone who can click a special link for me, correct? Is that generally approved of, or will I just get banned for being annoying? 😅

[wary osprey]

A lot of people don’t realize how fast retries + tool outputs + subagents stack usage.

Monthly subscriptions might feel manageable at first, but once you scale workflows, it gets unpredictable.

most builders deal with this by:

1. Setting hard token caps during testing
2. Splitting models (cheap for planning, premium for final outputs)
3. Using a unified routing layer so they can monitor usage across models in one place instead of juggling separate API keys

this makes budget behavior much easier to control.

if you’re exploring unified routing, AIsa integrates cleanly with OpenClaw and makes model switching and usage tracking much easier

[wary osprey]

You could try logging raw request payload size to confirm whether the context is being retransmitted fully each turn.

[potent flare]

what is the problem?

[rocky girder]

are there any good tutorials for running openclaw on a jetsen orin nano super? i tried the default installation, using my antrhopic api key, and using a local 7b model, but i kept running into "gateway connect failed : error pairing required"

[lilac dock]

Hi everyone — I’m looking for some help with OpenClaw on macOS.

I’ve installed it twice on my Mac mini. It has been able to perform very basic tasks, but I haven’t managed to get it to properly access the email account I created for it, nor interact with apps like Google Chrome or other applications on the system.

Right now it feels like it can only handle extremely simple actions. I assume this is due to incorrect configuration on my side, but it’s becoming a bit frustrating.

Is there a clear, up-to-date, and beginner-friendly guide specifically for setting it up on a Mac mini (macOS) so it can actually perform the kinds of tasks people say it can do?

Any advice or recommended setup guides would be really appreciated. Thanks!

[void tiger]

This agent announcement bug is a...bugger. It is suggesting I downgrade to 2026.2.17.

Is that what people are doing to sort this out?

[ember oak]

Where can I post a concerning find for the devs to investigate

[lucid elk]

what are the finds?

[ember oak]

It’s a report from my agent regarding a prompt injection attempt

[quasi ore]

Anyone know how to send image? I have my local image, claw is trying to send to me. But I got file directory error instead

[wary osprey]

Post on #report and tag mod

[vernal star]

I have this set up as well, and my bot is the opposite of clever. It just tries one thing, fails and gives up. One thing I did was made sure the "heartbeat" was running, so it does a bit of something on its own terms.

[candid socket]

what model?

[vernal star]

gpt-4o

[candid socket]

i tried that model, and its extremely bad. i switched to gpt-5-mini

another one that was fairly decent is grok code fast 1 or even haiku 4.5

i tried gpt 4.1 and 4o, both were terrible and required many re-prompts

[rocky girder]

trying to set up openclaw on an orin and i keep running into gateway connect failed: error pairing required. any ideas?

tried asking in help but the bot randomly stopped responding lol

[candid socket]

did you approve your device?

i think the cli is smt like openclaw device list then openclaw approve <id>

[rocky girder]

well thats the thing, i've got no idea

i selected hatch in tui

and it started spamming after that the error i mentioned above

[candid socket]

ye just run openclaw device list, check if there is a pending device, then approve it

[rocky girder]

aight

[compact hawk]

its giving
⚠️ Agent failed before reply: All models failed (4): google-antigravity/gemini-3-flash: Cloud Code Assist API error (403): Verify your account to continue. (auth) | google-antigravity/claude-opus-4-5-thinking: No available auth profile for google-antigravity (all in cooldown or unavailable). (rate_limit) | google-antigravity/gemini-3-pro-high: No available auth profile for google-antigravity (all in cooldown or unavailable). (rate_limit) | google-antigravity/gemini-3-pro-low: No available auth profile for google-antigravity (all in cooldown or unavailable). (rate_limit).
Logs: openclaw logs --follow

i heard its because of the 3.1 release

but openclaw doesnt support 3.1 yet?

[dull spruce]

it looks like you're rate limited

can you go to aistudio and check your stats?

[compact hawk]

i checked its not, havent used it for like 16h. my friend has the same problem

antigravity oauth thing