users-helping-users

[prisma inlet]

Ok so how do we set up gpt 5.4 with openclaw exactly

With the codex auth

[pallid wraith]

@bronze kraken solved for the new installer bug:

🦞🤖 OFFICIAL OPENCLAW TROUBLESHOOTING THREAD
Got OpenClaw issues ? Let's help each other.
I'll go first.
The latest version of OpenClaw as of today 3.2.2026 has been BRUTAL.
Installer doesn't even finish.
If the installer crashes, and doesn't open your gateway, type this in terminal:
openclaw dashboard --no-open
Does your Chrome Extension (Browser Relay) not work? Your OpenClaw says it doesn't have access to the internet or web capabilities?
Or it says something like "I don't have access to a browser or web search tools in my current setup."
Here's what you can do:
RDP into your machine or open the terminal on the VPS and edit your config with this command:
nano ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json
Find this line:
"tools": {
"profile": "messaging"
}
Change "messaging" to "full"
Save (Ctrl+O, Enter, Ctrl+X)
Kill the old gateway and restart:
kill $(pgrep -f openclaw-gateway)
sleep 2
openclaw gateway
That's it. The "messaging" profile only includes chat tools.
Changing to "full" gives the agent access to browser, bash, files, and everything else.

[gusty crypt]

hello guys I just got my vps but during the quick setup wizard it failed with this error " Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable: Command failed: systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gateway.service

[olive basin]

You’re right to question it — fallback is happening because openai-codex/gpt-5.4 is configured but currently marked missing
on your gateway, so the resolver gets “model not found” and drops to fallback #1 (gpt-5.3-codex).

I just checked the live catalog: no gpt-5.4 entry is available yet for your current auth/provider route, so this is most
likely rollout lag/account availability, not your config being broken.

How to fix?

[bleak mauve]

every two weeks, my openclaw system becomes entirely useless... like it actually jsut becomes incompetent. Sometimes it magically seems to work again. it always coincides with a model switch and then it takes a full 2-3 days to get things back to working correctly. am I the only one? It has to be user error right?

[pearl mist]

Hopefully someone can help me out here. I have been getting my butt kicked with trying to get openclaw and ollama working together. I decided to remove everything and start fresh but now it seems like my ISP is blocking the openclaw site. i was able to disable some stuff to get to the site but i think there is still some blocking going on as i can not fully access everything and when trying to complete the onboarding i get some errors. I tried to post a screenshot but wasnt able to for some reason.

◇ Enable hooks?
│ Skip for now
Config overwrite: /home/talos/.openclaw/openclaw.json (sha256 af91d1e2ea48b170671d559816ec9b94b56c5e14dd12774a497c37babdabba38 -> 4c2bc24083ae22ae892e0a8e879b66ab99f37e6528d6bccf92504495e2ff62a5, backup=/home/talos/.openclaw/openclaw.json.bak)
│
◇ Gateway service runtime ────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ QuickStart uses Node for the Gateway service (stable + supported). │
│ │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable: Command failed: systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gateway.service

[bleak mauve]

ollama has 100% bricked my system twice now. wont ever touch it again

[pearl mist]

Maybe thats what happened here

[unborn ether]

It's my guess, OpenClaw's dependencies @mariozechner/pi-*** is updated to support GPT-5.4 but OpenClaw 2026.3.2 is using old version. "Stay tuned" is my opinion.

[swift willow]

Finally got things working correctly locally M4 Mac

[naive yacht]

Can anyone recommend me an article, tutorial or video that explains the OpenClaw architecture at a high level? I am not talking about "This is how you install OpenClaw. This is how you use SSH" and so forth. That sort of tutorial is a dime/dozen. Because I have been beating my head against their documentation page and I still have no idea how permissions, scopes, workspaces, profiles, agents, subagents etc work. How are tools and skills different? Does one depend on the other? That sort of thing. I think if I had a better general understanding of all the different components of openclaw, then maybe the docs website would make more sense. I wonder if anyone has put together a good explanation in text or video form. Any suggestions?

[swift willow]

Qwen 3.5

[median sand]

One-click deployment is still more convenient.

[naive yacht]

They say Comcast and Xfinity block them for some reason: https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/faq#i-can’t-access-docs-openclaw-ai-ssl-error-what-now (you'll have to read that on github if you can't visit the url)

I had the same error about systemctl is-enabled. I made my own service file from the advice of an LLM and that got me past the error. Someone else reported the same error in the #1459642797895319552 channel recently. I think running openclaw doctor fixed it for them. But do a search in that channel since I might remember it wrong. @gusty crypt I just saw you have the same error.

[pearl mist]

I have Quantum and had read that it could be true but was hoping someone figure out a way past it, i have done the doctor fix but doesn't seem to help. I will look for what you mentioned.

[steep dragon]

hey every1 😄 need some help here (noob alert) - can i run a virtual machine on my pc to run openclaw ?

[median sand]

of course

But the data is isolated.

[steep dragon]

yesterday i got everything right and even got to text over whatsapp, today everything is dead ! im trying to reinstall a VM on ubuntu and start over

thats what i want for now. i only wanna test it first and give controlled data resources to start

testing it on ubuntu 24.4

using openai with my account since i dont have a payed subs on chatgpt, matters ?

[spring ermine]

Yes you can. I'm running mine in Ubuntu VM w. Virtualbox on a windows host. I have the OpenClaw talking to Ollama on the host for local models. Requires some network know-how or AI help & firewall rules

[sudden hamlet]

is codex oauth for gpt 5.4 working?

[spring ermine]

Use OpenAI OAuth

[steep dragon]

thanks

[latent oriole]

anyone getting their claw to use MCP and make actual fund transfers? i have coinbase mcp setup and input API the bot accepted and simulated but when it came to $1 transfer it refused from safety parameters. testnet was successful and confirmed. any ideas?

[hexed barn]

Im trying to setup openclaw but I wanted to know if im better off using a vps or an extra computer I have at home. I have never used terminal so that part is new to me. what is your advice.

[swift willow]

Install Ubuntu and learn Linux no better time to start

[compact creek]

i dont think that exists right? i thought oauth is only for codex in "openclaw config"

[spring ermine]

Possibly you are right, I'm not 100% sure. I'm using OAuth but also only on codex. I haven't tried other models with OAuth.

[compact creek]

ah ok

we may have to wait then

[still shale]

Anyone knows why my local agent (http://127.0.0.1:18789/chat?session) can do all kind of things like fetching an RSS feed, but the EXACT same command, fails when asking it on Discord ?

This is the command/task: "show top 3 news items from this RSS feed https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml"

On my local chat I get output like:
Key headlines from the March 4–6 2026 New York Times feed

Escalating Middle‑East conflict – The United Sta.... etc etc etc

My bot responds to the SAME command with:
I’m unable to fetch that RSS feed from my current environment. However, I can provide you with the usual top headlines from the NYT World news feed based on the most recent data I have:
...
(and then it just makes up the news)

[pearl solstice]

theres sandboxing done so only your gateway has full access. chat channels have access to only whats in the openclaw directory

[still shale]

I tried to give the discord bot more access, to web fetch or, in this case, I added as kill called 'curl-http' which teaches how to get data from internet.

But it doesn't use it

[pearl solstice]

do /elevated and youll see all the options. /elevated full lets it have whatever

[still shale]

I cannot use /elevated in discord ; that will show discord commands, right

[pearl solstice]

yeah its a hard stop limitation by openclaw, you have to manually give it "elevated access"

if its running as a bot, you have access to the slash commands for it

[still shale]

So I ran the /elevated full in my local chat, which responded with "⚙️ Elevated mode set to full (auto-approve). ⚙️ Runtime is direct; sandboxing does not apply."

[trim osprey]

Whats the difference between running your main brain on 5.3 codex and 5.2 general if it was an option? just curious i am going to switch to 5.4 as soon as it get outs. 5.3 codex seems fine as a brain

[spring ermine]

Also try DMs as a temp workaround - seems to get over the "permission" issues

[pearl solstice]

yup. now try your tool calls

[still shale]

checking. tnx already for giving advice.

[pearl solstice]

they should work. for exec actions you can do /exec

[pearl solstice]

happy to help!

Ive got my own issue with heartbeats, no matter what i do i seemingly cant get them to fire. when i do openclaw system heartbeat last it just returns null

any advice is mucho appreciated

[still shale]

heart beats ; They run every 30 minutes right?

[pearl solstice]

theyre supposed to

[still shale]

did you try to set them to 1 minute ?

and then check the log if something happens once every minute

FWIW I start OpenClaw on CLI like this openclaw gateway --verbose

so I can see in real-time the output. So not as a service. Since I'm editing the openclaw.json file about once per 3 minutes and restart the gateway about as often right now while settings things up

[pearl solstice]

idk man, im looking at this, just noticed this also Memory │ 0 files · 0 chunks · dirty · sources memory · plugin memory-core · vector unknown · fts ready · cache on (0)

so i dont have memory or heartbeats working like they should

[gilded gyro]

Hello friends, Im a beginner to this whole openclaw thing. I have a gateway setup with local LLM as primary model (through ollama). I added a SKILL.md for Github from here: https://clawhub.ai/steipete/github
and tried prompting to list my Github account's repos. Heres the output:

I need to find the repositories associated with "User" on GitHub. Let me search for this using the GitHub CLI.

<function=exec>
<parameter=command>
gh repo list User
</parameter>
</function>
</tool_call>

Am I missing something here? Am I not understanding what openclaw can do fully? This response was through the Gateway Dashboard locally

[still shale]

I see a /tool_call but no start of <tool_call>

[hardy horizon]

"I need help. I have a VPS running Docker, and I'm having trouble giving it access to Google Chrome. I also need to install and open Claws Mail on the Docker VPS and enable its access to Chrome."

[gilded gyro]

That seems to be missing in all responses, I tried a few times

[naive summit]

what have you set as your API type? Only one of the openai-compatible api types supports tool calls

[hardy horizon]

"I need help. I have a VPS running Docker, and I'm having trouble giving it access to Google Chrome. I also need to install and open Claws Mail on the Docker VPS and enable its access to Chrome."

[naive summit]

have you tried asking Krill in #1459642797895319552 ? That sounds like a problem it could walk you through easily.

[hardy horizon]

no works i have try

[gilded gyro]

@naive summit I think its set as "openai-completions"

for vLLM

[pearl solstice]

unfortunately local models just arent really capable of the tool calling openclaw needs

[naive summit]

ok, then that is not the issue. Have you checked if the model can do it? If the model wasn't trained for tool use, it might try to spit out something that looks like a tool call but doesn't work.

also check on the ollama side in the logs. tool calls come back as a different message type than chats, so ollama has to handle recognising it as a tool call

and, as Rose Gold said, models that are small enough to run at home rarely are good tool callers. But you should get a successful tool call at least once in a while if that is the issue.

[pearl solstice]

trust me, i fought this battle across like 7 different local models

Unfortunately, anything you can run locally is just going to either send bad tool calls or output malformed json

[gilded gyro]

@naive summit I am running qwen3-coder:30b. Prompting the LLM directly though cannot access Github CLI

Even though ollama's library shows the model with 'tools' ??

[still shale]

run ollama like 'ollama serve' not as a service, so you can see the output directly

maybe helps to find the problem

[pearl solstice]

Honestly i have learned that if youre getting wrong or bad tool calls, it has nothing to do with you and is entirely the model

[naive summit]

btw, I fully expect that in a couple of months, there will be a couple of small models that are better with tools and sacrifice knowledge for that. Unlike the chatbot of old that only created replies and had to know stuff, agents don't need to know as much a they can just google information.

[pearl solstice]

yeah i totally agree, this isnt forever that we live like this.

[naive summit]

another point: what's your quantisation? if it's q4, you have no chance to get correct tool calls. q8 maybe, fp16 could

[heady shell]

Hey, having some problems with this, my openclaw says" I'm still seeing the same tool restrictions in this Discord session, which means I can't pull that live CLMT stock data or execute commands just yet. What's on your mind?"

it says this for any internet request

[gilded gyro]

Honestly I dont know how to find that. That alright I can wait a few months and keep an eye out for those models. Thanks for the assistance!

[slate gulch]

Most likely repeated question, but is anyone with the claude max plan able to run 1m on plan usage? Whether in claude code or openclaw
Cuz i had looked at a bunch of token grapers and dappled in the json but can't seem to get it working

[naive summit]

btw, sorry, Rose Gold, for arguing with Krill in the middle of your help session. I hope t hat wasn't too distracting.

[pearl solstice]

no it wasnt at all i promise

im just annoyed is all with the heartbeat situation

genuinely dont understand why they arent and have never fired

call me a conspiracy theorist but im convinced this is a bug where they need to be manually enabled to have any effect

[naive summit]

yes, it's weird. Usually, when the HEARTBEAT.md is edited, it runs by itself, as that's the default...

[pearl solstice]

Yeah im a bit annoyed. theyre still not firing

[analog venture]

Is openclaw just a pain to onboard in general? It always fails or throws errors?

[naive summit]

not really. it usually is up and running before you realise it...

It's the "set it up to my liking while I have no idea yet how it works" that's the most common culprit for problems.

[analog venture]

I can’t even get the dash board to load lol

[floral ember]

have a gemini window open and post everything you do until it gets you up and running

[naive summit]

That's why I would suggest very strongly to start with 1 AI model, 1 Agent, and 0 channels. Then jump into the web UI and say helo to your agent, see how it ticks and then have it assist you to set up the rest

[naive summit]

dahsboard as in web UI? What's the error?

[pearl solstice]

its working finally henry

im still convinced it had to be explicitly enabled

[naive summit]

great. could you track it down to exactly one setting? Or ist it "working after a thousand changes"?

[analog venture]

i hope it super simple - linux noob here.

Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable

[pearl solstice]

I think, if i had to GUESS WHAT HAPPENED. is in the process of making the occasional bad config change. it got flipped to disable the heartbeat runtime flag

i dont know if its a protective feature or what. but i think its been disabled for a while and had to be explicitly reenabled

So i dont know that it was any one thing

[pearl solstice]

found this in a github issue report for that: // In the systemctl check: const result = await exec("systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gateway.service"); // Exit 4 = not-found = OK, proceed with install if (result.exitCode === 4) { return { installed: false }; } if (result.exitCode !== 0) { return { available: false }; }

or if you dont want to patch it yourself, looks like you can do this: ```# Manually create the unit first
systemctl --user daemon-reload

Then run install

openclaw gateway install```

[naive summit]

that shouldn't stop you from using the dashboard. What that warnings sys is that the one service openclaw knows to register itself as "run always and automatically" program is not available. So you have to find another way to have it started automatically. Or just start it by hand (that#s what I'm doing for other reasons)

[analog venture]

awsome. thats probably works. but i have no idea how you do all that in the terminal lol.

[pearl solstice]

try the second thing first, just paste the whole second block in your terminal

the first thing is either for devs on their own forks or for openclaw to fix

[analog venture]

nah it fails.

Gateway service check failed: Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable: Command failed: systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gateway.service

this is a fresh install of ubuntu. i would have thought it would be pretty straight forward lol

[shrewd hatch]

Hi - I had a crash of the macOS openclaw companion app when I clicked on talk mode. I have and willing to share the .ips file.

[slim mulch]

if someone know how to fix this is going to be highly apretiated (i been trying for hours) https://discord.com/channels/1456350064065904867/1479335861391855769

[full lava]

I there is a complex task my agents will perform them but never report back (via Telegram) that they are done. Is there a way to force them to report back when done?

[last pulsar]

Are they main agent tasks or subagent tasks?

[full lava]

Both... Even the main agent will go silent at times. I have to wake them up it seems and then they say "oh yeah, sorry, finished that hours ago..."

[glossy wadi]

Yes... They're getting too close to human-like 😆

[last pulsar]

Oh so it went to lunch nap.

You can try some of these

Isolated jobs default to delivery.mode = "announce", but if delivery fails (channel auth, invalid target), the job may still report ok internally
Missing delivery.bestEffort: true causes hard failures when delivery targets are unreachable
Gateway crashes or restarts can interrupt job execution without logging (fixed by restart catch-up in v2026.3.3)

Add --best-effort-deliver Flag
Problem: Silent delivery failures
Fix: Add bestEffort: true to delivery config
json

CLI

openclaw cron edit <job-id> --best-effort-deliver

JSON config

{
"delivery": {
"mode": "announce",
"channel": "telegram",
"to": "123456789",
"bestEffort": true
}
}
Why: Prevents job failure when delivery target is temporarily unreachable; logs error instead of hard failure

[glossy wadi]

Does that work also when gateway restarts in a request?

I mean a ask agent to do some config editing and in the middle it has to restart gateway. Then I have to ask if it's ok and then it replays

[tame beacon]

hello how many messages are stored in the openclaw browser? Everything like for example chats in gemini/gpt?

[full lava]

I'll give it a shot. Thx

[worldly crown]

Hi all, newbie user here. I just got openclaw installed last night on a LXC. Everything was working pretty good other than my token usage. Because of that, I decided to try and setup local LM via Ollama. OpenClaw was able to setup Ollama with Mistral model and was working fine. Afterward, I was prompting it to setup some routing rules. I think I accidently prompt it incorrectly because my CPU spiked to 100%. Panic, I decided to restart the LXC. After the restart Ollama is no longer on the LXC. After that, I decided to setup Ollama myself, following the installation guide. Afterward, OpenClaw seems to be able to connect to it but will spike the CPU to 100%. If I run Ollama run <model>, it seems to be running fine and fast. I've tried Mistral, Ministral, and Llama 3.2 All of them seems to have the same behavior. I wanted to see if there are certain things that I am missing or my google skill is not able to find, before I do an "Openclaw / reset" and start over

[main tulip]

Whats wrong with a cpu usage spike, thats kinda expected is it not?

[worldly crown]

the problem is that LLM timesout when using through openclaw. If I chat with the model directly through ollama, everything runs fine

[candid lava]

unless you have 128GB of VRAM youre wasting your time with a local LM

[worldly crown]

even the small models?!?!

[candid lava]

do you want to work with someone who has an iq of 50?

[main tulip]

Yeah stuff isnt designed to be used without specialized hardware

[worldly crown]

lol..I guess small models are that bad huh?

[candid lava]

equate model size to IQ.

[candid lava]

even with 32gb of VRAM on a 5090 the context windows werent big enough and the models were shit.

[main tulip]

Lowk i dont see why having a slow version of like kimi k2.5 is a problem to build stuff with while at work

[candid lava]

stop wasting time

either pay $20-200 a month or go find a way to use your time to generate that income to pay for real LLM

[main tulip]

People just are impatient

[candid lava]

seriously people are trying to use local models like they can just pick up a piece of wood and hit it against another piece of wood

either put some skin in the game or expect you're not going to make fire

if you could somehow use your $500 pc to do magic.. dont you think the companies that are worth billions or trillions would use that money to put you back into the stone ages with openclaw?

[main tulip]

Its all turing complete theres no reason you cant wait

Its what we all did before the 2010s

[candid lava]

oh, right, you're cutting edge and companies cant move that quickly so somehow youre going to use $500 of hardware to make openclaw make you a millionaire

right

[main tulip]

I literally never said that, I just said its possible to run and prompt its not like people who weren’t making money before are going to now

[candid lava]

spend some time, watch peters interviews. he'll tell you himself. stop wasting time with local LLM and use the 256k context LLMs with 100TB of VRAM

[main tulip]

No reason to hate on a man for having a hobby and trying

[candid lava]

im not hating on hobbiest, im hating on those who dont realize this is a hobby and want more than that.

[main tulip]

He said he just did it last night and tried on ollama its not like new ppl know much

[candid lava]

well, they can either read, or get thrown into the water and learn to swim with the sharks

you're a guppy?

[worldly crown]

for more context..was definitely not looking to make money..this is more of "let see what all this hype is about"

[main tulip]

Yeah exactly man

[candid lava]

spend $20 on chatgpt /month and youll see hype

[main tulip]

Have some fun with it

Theres a lot u can do with free tokens

[candid lava]

run a local llm and question why its speaking chinese or russian

[main tulip]

There’s not much utility without dropping loads of cash but the ability to make a PC an assistant is def cool

Just a note for the lxc, make sure that if u use tailscale u still have normal dns set up

Otherwise shit wont resolve right

[worldly crown]

well...LXC is setup on my home server

[main tulip]

Idk what ur lab is like but i had dns issues for like an hour til i realized

[candid lava]

and for the love of god, dont use bind lan. its shit. ive been running it and i hate it

[worldly crown]

so it's on local network

[main tulip]

Yeah thats what i have too

Did u do it as a system daemon with a system user or just off root

[worldly crown]

that I don't know...I follow the installation but install it under a sudo user account

[main tulip]

Ah

I removed root ssh so its only via host lxc attach for root

And custom user for the service

And the ssh-able account is non root obv

So only the claw can access its own shit remotely

Since its own home is obv perms segregated

[worldly crown]

yeah..I've not done any kinda lock down. I am just experimenting so was gonna have it hook up to some dummy google account and see what automation I can do

but after realizing it burning through my initial $5 on claude, I pivot down the rabbit hole of "how do I manage my token cost"

[main tulip]

I’m about to have it try doing some financial analysis on google sheets tmrw

[candid lava]

get chatgpt and use codex for $20/mo

[main tulip]

Ditto that yeah

Api costs are pricey

Idk if the subscriptions are unlimited usage tho

[candid lava]

they arent you have 5 hour windows and 7 day windows but youll get much more than your API costs

you can also set your heartbeats and other things to 5.1-mini which is less usage

[main tulip]

I just heartbeat to gemini flash ngl

[candid lava]

but, you wont spend more than $20/mo unless you put more money in 🙂

[main tulip]

I might have to cop but the education discount was lying to me

Not there anymore for google n shot

[candid lava]

its $20? chipotle costs more

[main tulip]

And no one has a job anymore

Gotta budget

[candid lava]

well you're not the expected user base

[main tulip]

Its open source all uses are valid

Im on fixed income so

[candid lava]

true, you're in the your time is valued less user base

[main tulip]

Gotta see if I can use this to scale it

[candid lava]

i highly doubt you will, but more power to you for trying.

the engine is the llm which youve cheaped out on

[tranquil flame]

just buy a 1 dollar account on z2u

gets u the same thing

[worldly crown]

so follow down the rabbit hole of Chatgpt Plus, I saw this reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1rio15m/openclaw_chatgpt_oauth_ban_risk_following_google/). Maybe there is a risk?

[crisp wing]

r/ChatGPT via Reddit

[candid lava]

nah that user is doing something else

a.) its 4 days old with noone else commenting. b.) openai hired peter (the creator of openclaw) well before that post c.) see a and b.

d.) openai is bleeding accounts left and right because they took a deal with the us gov they arent going to piss of more people right now

[worldly crown]

does Anthropic or Google have similar subscription plan that works with OpenClaw?

[candid lava]

no. anthropic blocked third party (ie openclaw)

[worldly crown]

or is OpenAI the only game in town?

[candid lava]

here's the best part.. with openclaw you can use chatgpt this month for $20 and XYZ next month for $20 if you want?

just type openclaw config

[main tulip]

Kimi has an openclaw dedicated plan but

Id rather just do other stuff

[main tulip]

You can set fallback models in the main config

[candid lava]

time and value. some people would prefer to spend 5 hours screwing with lessor competent LLMs and not end up in a better situation than someone who spent 1 hr on a $20/mo model

[main tulip]

So when you run out of say free Claude for the day u can switch to chatgpt then to google

[worldly crown]

welp..it's 11PM, like some of you. Still need to go finish cleaning up the kitchen and hit the sack. I'll look at subscribing to ChatGPT plus tomorrow and plug it into Openclaw

and maybe set it up as default and fallback to Haiku 3.5 to burn through the rest of my Anthropic credits

[main tulip]

Yeah i got 7$ left of haiku to use

[candid lava]

It’s just difficult to grasp a concept where in the US people use hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars of hardware, with $40-100 of Internet access and think they can spend $0 and somehow obtain the same computing power as the most powerful llms in the world and won’t spend $20.

Noones saying to commit $20 every month for the rest of your life. Spend $20 one time for 30 days

[livid cliff]

hi everyone. I'm pretty new to openclaw. I installed it in a docker container, and set up providers (openrouter and opencode zen), and I linked it to a telegram bot. But now I'm facing issue, where I don't know how to personnalize my telegram agent, how to allow it to search on the internet etc... Is there like a "onboarding tutorial" or something similar that can help people?

I tried to tell my agent to edit it's own AGENT.md file, without success... Thanks in advance to u 😄

[robust raft]

anyone know how to releaes the telegramsession?

[hasty pier]

Everything was working fine and I started randomly getting this error:

Agent failed before reply: OAuth token refresh failed for openai-codex: Failed to refresh OAuth token for openai-codex. Please try again or re-authenticate.

Can anyone help?

[storm loom]

Sounds like the token has expired. You need to re-Oauth

Opus is hands down the best model for OC. Its a shame its so expensive to run

Ran up a $120 bill for one day's use 💀

[grand moss]

is this legit?

[wild pier]

Is it better to run openclaw on docker or directly on windows ?

[true fossil]

Docker is just a layer on top of OS. It is cleaner to run in docker.

[full lava]

Anyone have an agent that repeats itself? This is not only annoying but costs tokens. I’ve told it to stop but it won’t.

Oops. No images. But basically the same message 4 times slightly reworded.

Told it to stop repeating itself. So it said sure thing I won’t report myself …. In 4 variations in 4 messages. LOL.

[austere nacelle]

Hi everyone! I’m currently looking into integrating the Gemini 3.1 Flash-lite model into OpenClaw. Has anyone tried this before or could point me in the right direction? Any tips or guidance on where to start would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[timber dove]

Hey everyone, I’m Tazz, and I’m currently building an AI Agentic Product designed to bridge the gap between "concept" and "shipping solo" using autonomous agents.

To ensure our roadmap hits the mark, I’m looking to chat with two specific types of builders for a 20-minute user interview:

1. The Solo Founder / Indie Builder: Running a one-person Micro-SaaS/product (likely non-technical or self-taught) and using agents to act as your "dev team."

2. The "Army of One" Marketer: A solo growth hire at a startup with zero engineering support, leveraging AI/agents to handle the technical heavy lifting of SEO, social, and reporting.

The Goal: Purely a consultation to understand the "walls" you’re hitting with agentic workflows. No sales pitch—just 20 minutes to talk shop.

DM me if you're open to sharing your perspective!

[hollow night]

The people who say my agent runs 24x7 how on earth do they claim, without prompitng it is the same as anythign else , yes you can set up cron jobs but i cant to figure out how so many youtubers claim hey this runs 24x7 or all night doing the job or am i missing something

[willow crystal]

anyone use larrybrain auto-content-creation before?

[random kayak]

I switched over to deepseek v3.2 via Venice but can’t get it to work. I cleared session tokens and turned thinking mode off. I don’t know what else to try. Anyone have any idea?

[vernal juniper]

I'm stuck and could use a little help. I am trying to get Openclaw to add a persistent rule to its memory files, a command that I can call upon at any point in the future that it will not forget . It's saying it cant do it because my agent doesnt have direct config/file/cron commands in the chat runtime. I updated ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json (agents.list tools allow) and openclaw config get agents.list shows the new tools, but runtime (Telegram + Discord chats + web UI) still uses the old limited set. How do I force a refresh?

I tried restarting my gateway

[stuck lion]

Why can't I post in help?

I've using Hertzner VPS and managed to get up and running using instructions from ChatGPT. It took so many hours that I'm embarrassed to share on here. Himalaya email worked for a short while then stopped.

I got kicked out of kimi cloud model after a tiny bit of use. Then local lama 3.2 failed because of how openclaw configured it. If you change configuration in multiple places I think it will work. I've spent so much time on this that I don't know if I'll pursue.

I'm an accountant with basic tech skills.
I use Claude and chatgpt to write all my code and have built email automations and other programs. I can find my way around Google Cloud platform. Openclaw is tough

[steep dragon]

hey people 😄 when i reach API limit rate means my openai cant respond anymore ?

what should i do ? change from openAI to another model ?

[last pulsar]

Add a fallback to another capable model after your primary one in openclaw.json

[azure cosmos]

Just edit the memory.md yourself or change the LLM model to something else.

[tranquil flame]

yeah and u can export your data from each acc to move to the next

claude has a prompt in its settings

[azure cosmos]

Most of those youtubers are liars have been since day one. "my Openclaw started an fortune 500 company while I slept..." is total bs. People seeking to run Openclaw automatically without direct prompting should add to their HEARTBEAT.md file, use a good LLM model and give the model explicit discretion to make all decisions autonomously but even then you're going to get slop unless you have something well planned out.

[void tangle]

if I have a googlechat channel, how can I have multiple spaces for multiple agents?

[rich heron]

is there a skill in hub that automatically scans my google classroom and summarizes the announcements and assignments that my prof has given me?

[fading blade]

hey i am unable to give system access to clawbot.. how do i fix it

[haughty hedge]

Anyone have a link to download newest mac app? I have an old version and it wont let me upgrade.

[vapid axle]

hello anyone can help me

can't execute exec or shell bash command my openclawn reply a json with the command

[delicate pewter]

For those dealing with the issue: "llama_grammar_init_impl: failed to parse grammar" when running Qwen3.5 tool calling with llama.cpp, there was a breaking change with tools in openclaw@2026.3.2, reverting solved my issue. ( @nimble phoenix ).

npm install -g openclaw@2026.3.1
openclaw gateway restart

[pulsar yacht]

Hello my friends

My openclaw refuses to work with chromium also if I've installed the OpenClaw extension, how can I do?

[vernal juniper]

changing the LLM model will do an automatic refresh of the config?

[azure cosmos]

No. Lower quality models can have issues with tooling or doing the things that you are asking. I've never had issues with a LLM not editing its own MD files unless you have setup some restrictions or it could be a lower quality model

[vernal juniper]

I'm on openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex. I edited the config file myself so the new permissions should be granted. Its just my open chats (discord and telegram) with agent do not recognize the change, still on previous config

[last pulsar]

Revert to an older working version

[pulsar yacht]

of chromium?

[azure cosmos]

Ahh, 5.3 should have no issues

[pulsar yacht]

openclaw browser --browser-profile openclaw status openclaw browser --browser-profile openclaw start openclaw browser --browser-profile openclaw open https://example.com openclaw browser --browser-profile openclaw snapshot

Cause with those commands its working but its not working with the LLM

And I am using a Debian VPS

[azure cosmos]

Restart the gateway. Also, you have the agents and bootstrap MD files in the workplace directory?

[jagged apex]

Has anyone run into this error here? error 400 [] is too short - ‘tools’ error

I get that now if I type anything in discord.

[restive sierra]

the model provider rejects an empty tools: [] instead of just omitting it. /restart or checking their config for any tools that got misconfigured would fix it.

[jagged apex]

I have restarted multiple times. This happened after getting whisper installed and working. Then I upgraded to the latest version and it’s broken. I’m thinking something got overwritten.

I am running in a docker container on a Mac if that makes a difference.

[mighty basalt]

is there any skill which can let me use voice messages on whatsapp?

[restive sierra]

right.. but did you put /restart in the discord chat itself? or just restart openclaw.. If that doesn't fix it though, it's probably the 2026.3.2 update breaking something again. That version's been causing issues for a bunch of people. Might need to check your openclaw.json for a stale or empty tools config that the upgrade left behind.

[jagged apex]

Ok. Thanks. That gives me a place to start looking. Thanks.

[desert gazelle]

I've used the ElevenLabs integration and it somewhat works. I can speak a voice message and it replies in telegram with text and voice but it's not like the OpenAI chat where you cna have a flowing conversation.

[jagged apex]

I put /new in discord chat. Will try /restart.

@restive sierra No luck with /restart. will check openclaw.json. Or restore an older version. I backed up several older ones.

[mighty basalt]

thanks, ill try it out

[restive sierra]

Yeah, you might want to try a roll back with "npm install -g openclaw@2026.2.17" (or whatever version you were on before 3.2) Then "openclaw doctor --fix" to clean up any config issues.

without the " " btw lol

[jagged apex]

Thanks. That’s good advice. If restoring an older json doesn’t work that will be my next step.

[restive sierra]

yea if you run into any error feel free to DM 🙂

[jagged apex]

Will do. Thanks for your help!

[glossy forge]

Do you know if there is a way to make whatsapp channel be read-only and with access to all messages? I want openclaw to make a daily summary of all my private chats

[open saffron]

Okay guys... is this thing suppose to be a struggle the whole way? I've got openclaw up and running but I'm constantly running into one issue or another. I don't even know where to start asking for help anymore. Yesterday the bot was telling me that it couldn't create discord catagories and channels. Today it managed to create a catagory and channel before telling me that all tool calls are now failing. I want to SEE what is actually happening and "openclaw logs --follow" hardly reports anything. When I tell it to do something it starts working on it and then goes silent. I think it's running into a problem or timeout but it doesn't notify me what happened.

[vocal goblet]

I have the same issue I asked to make configs to openclaw.json which always worked but now it told me " tool access in this session/runtime. I currently have messaging/session tools, but no direct shell/exec tool exposed, so I can’t run ls myself here." I am using gpt 5.3-codex. It also disappears in the middle of the task since yesterday. This could be due to new release of gpt 5.4 maybe idk

[open saffron]

Now the tools are working again throws hands in the air

[open saffron]

I feel like I don't have enough visibility into what the system is doing. Is it responses it's getting back from the llm? Is it actually the tool calls failing? Maybe the tool calls are malformed now... I just have no idea.

[hard turret]

Wen GPT 5.4 bois?

[tardy pollen]

We're experiencing a health-monitor: restarting (reason: stale-socket) loop on WhatsApp every ~35 minutes, both on VPS (Docker) and local Mac. The connection appears open but stops receiving events, so no inbound messages get through. Is there a known workaround or configuration to prevent the WhatsApp socket from going stale?

[safe dock]

Whats the best way to replicate the voice chat that other webui platforms have, but with openclaw? I have a local GPU that can do fast whisper, but not sure about the front end with openclaw for that sort of setup. Is it only whats app voice memos?

[desert gazelle]

Weekend

[solid pier]

Tossing this (unofficial) Google Workspaces CLI at OC today to see what we can get into together. This is neat. CLI's tend to be much more token efficient than MCP's. https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

[restive sierra]

I've run into similar stuff. A few things that helped me:

The "goes silent" issue is usually a timeout or a tool call failing without reporting back. Try asking it "what happened with that last task?" sometimes it'll tell you what errored out.

For better visibility, try openclaw status to see what's actually running, and check ~/.openclaw/logs/ for the full session logs. Way more detail than --follow gives you.

The Discord tools can be finicky. If it created a category one day but not the next, it might be a permissions issue on the bot token, not OpenClaw itself. Double check your bot has the right Discord permissions (Manage Channels, etc). Also if you have all the permissions set remind it that it does have access and have it check it's stored key's or tools.md. that /new or compaction is a pain sometimes lol.

If tool calls are "all failing" suddenly, that usually means either the model changed (check your config for the model) or something in the config got corrupted. A quick openclaw doctor --fix might sort it out.

Which model are you running? Some cheaper models are terrible at tool calling and will silently fail or hallucinate tool responses.

[hard turret]

I can expect that this weekend? So I can avoid my wife while doing stuff with GPT 5.4

[umbral shuttle]

Has anyone had this issue and fixed it? I got OpenClaw working on Windows with WSL and the Chrome extension relay is connected, and browser commands work from the CLI, but in the WebChat/dashboard it often just talks back instead of actually using the browser to do the task. I already tried the basic config changes people suggested, but it still acts more like chat than an operator. If someone has seen this before, what was the actual fix?

[open saffron]

Oh? I'll check out the logs directly! the openclaw status command seems to always tell me things are fine. I'm running the kimi-k2.5 model so maybe that is my issue. I really wanted to "give the wheels a spin" so to speak before I invest into the project.

[foggy helm]

Need help restoring node host after openclaw reset on WSL2

OpenClaw 2026.3.2 (85377a2), WSL2 on Windows 11.

Everything was working fine — agent had exec/read/write tools via the node host. Then I ran openclaw reset and now the node won't reconnect properly.

Current state:

openclaw node run shows PATH then hangs (blinking cursor, no error, no "connected" message)
Gateway logs show zero node connection attempts — only WhatsApp/cron/heartbeat activity
~/.openclaw/devices/paired.json is {}
~/.openclaw/devices/pending.json had a request, approved it via openclaw devices approve (local fallback) — no longer shows "pairing required"
~/.openclaw/node.json has nodeId: "fresh"
dangerouslyDisableDeviceAuth: true is set in config
Agent still shows capabilities=none
systemctl --user doesn't work on WSL2 so openclaw node install fails
Doctor flagged stale gateway token, ran gateway install --force but still same behavior
What I need: How do I get the node host reconnected so my agent has exec tools again? Is there a step I'm missing after openclaw reset?

[restive sierra]

Yeah that's very likely your issue. Kimi K2.5 isn't great with tool calling, but i have seen some hit and miss cases. which is why things work sometimes and silently fail other times. The model is trying but it doesn't handle the tool call format reliably.

If you want to test drive without spending much, Claude Sonnet is probably the cheapest model that handles tool calling well. Night and day difference. Once you see it actually working properly you'll know if the investment is worth it.

[foggy helm]

had some error loop about context compaction over and over asked claude to help and nuked my own bot and sent me back 2 weeks trying to recover but keep having this node pairing issue. not a dev or anything so im lost lol

[open saffron]

Geez... so this is what I'm talking about running into things constantly... .openclaw/logs only has two files a commands.log and a config-audit.jsonl. So the logs are elsewhere.

[restive sierra]

Yeah, the actual session logs are in ~/.openclaw/sessions/ not logs/. Or you can check " journalctl --user -u openclaw -f " if your running it as a systemd service.

[wise wasp]

Hi, new here. I have a basic setup via telegram. Other than basic conversations, all other requests, even simple ones like "what is the weather now?" fail to produce a response. There would be a ..typing indicator, and then silence. Is there a way to debug this? The Logs in the gateway dashboard aren't showing any errors.

[open saffron]

I will say... I'm learning a lot of things along the way.

[uncut falcon]

hey goys how to enable gpt-5.4?

[restive sierra]

lol i know thats right... i spent 6 hours getting it setup, running into issue after issue... had to walk away for a day.. came back and had it running in 10 freaking minutes. with openclaw it's a real pain sometimes, but then it freaking awesome other times.

[open saffron]

Also... there isn't a .openclaw/sessions dir.... wth?

[restive sierra]

im double checking on my version.. what version are you running?

[open saffron]

Still new to this and figuring things out. Where would I get claude sonnet from? Best I can tell is that multiple places host modles. Trying to find the pricing.

[open saffron]

I'm running on the latest which might be part of my problem.

And speaking of pricing... I need a cheat sheet for that crap. I have no idea what token use looks like.

[frail flicker]

hi, what model are you using?

[restive sierra]

For Claude Sonnet, you'd get an API key from Anthropic directly: https://console.anthropic.com/ sign up, add billing, and grab your API key. Sonnet is their mid-tier model and it's solid for tool calling.

And yeah, the latest version (3.2) has been causing issues for a few people. If you want to stabilize, you could roll back with npm install -g openclaw@2026.2.17 and then openclaw doctor --fix. That's the version I'm on and it's been rock solid. i refuse to upgrade until i see the issues have been resolved.

[frail flicker]

the newest verison would explain my bot CONSTANTLY chatting for some reason

ill roll back

[open saffron]

Yeah. I'm going to try rolling it back. I signed into the Anthropic site I see where I could create an API key. I cant' find anything about cost except for where I could purchase credits... no idea what a credit equates to.

[restive sierra]

it honestly depends on what your plans are and what you intend to do with your ai agent... figuring that out first makes it easy.. i started with the $20 a month plan from claude.ai.. then upgraded to the $100 a month... so far that's doing well, i just watch my 5 hr sessions limits and the weekly limits.

[frail flicker]

ive heard setting your heartbeat model to a cheap one (like local or a free or dirt cheap model) can help save on api costs but i haven't had much time to try it myself

[restive sierra]

yes.. and you can set it to hourly instead of every 30 mins.. some have disabled it entirely. I prefer to have it hourly.

[frail flicker]

thats a good tip, i think i'll do the same

[open saffron]

I have an idea but still a work in progress

[open saffron]

Rolled back and now getting a config validation failure. acpx plugin not found. Off to research. I'm not sure where plugins are configured or what the acpx does.

[wise wasp]

anthropic

[open saffron]

Oh. acpx sounds important.

[frail flicker]

you may need to rollback the version. my first thought is that it isnt paired to you on tg if you aren't getting a response at all. if you are getting a response, i asked mine to give the weather as well and it said "I don't have access to a direct weather lookup tool right now. The weather skill is configured in this workspace, but I can't currently fetch live data." so it may be the skill not being configured for you. if none of those, version rollback

also, have you already ran openclaw doctor?

[restive sierra]

I think thats what 3.2 added, the acpx plugin to your config and 2.17 doesn't have it. if thats the version you rolled back too Check your ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json for a plugins section and remove the acpx entry. i was able to locate it by ssh into my vm and typing " nano ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json " Then type openclaw gateway restart and it should be clean. if your ssh'ed in

[wise wasp]

hrm, ok. maybe it doesn't have access to real time info? "what is the time now?" is also stuck, but "what's the capital of Australia" got a proper response! the bot says it has web_fetch capabilities though.

thanks! will try to run doctor

[open saffron]

Gateway appears to be back up. I saw doctor removed some things from the json so let's see what else may have broke.

[frail flicker]

worst case you could always try to ask the bot to fix it if it can! good luck!

claude is pretty good at patching itself

[restive sierra]

lol that no lie!

[nimble phoenix]

I solved it without reverting, just trim down the available tools a bit.

[delicate pewter]

But then you can't have the main agent create sessions

[nimble phoenix]

true. but in my setup, I only run permanent sessions anyways.

btw: yesterday the qwen.3.5 models all got updates

I'm downloading the new version atm. might reintroduce some tools afterwards for testing....

https://huggingface.co/collections/unsloth/qwen35

[wanton mason]

⚠️ Agent failed before reply: All models failed (2): openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex: ⚠️ API rate limit reached. Please try again later. (rate_limit) | openai/gpt-5.3-codex: No API key found for provider "openai". You are authenticated with OpenAI Codex OAuth. Use openai-codex/gpt-5.3-codex (OAuth) or set OPENAI_API_KEY to use openai/gpt-5.1-codex. (auth).
Logs: openclaw logs --follow

Any way i can fix this issue?

[terse venture]

Im also getting an API limit reached error. No matter how much I put into my token wallet, it keeps saying "API rate limit reached" - It'll even think for awhile before returning that message

It's using my tokens too....

[open saffron]

@restive sierra Thank you for the help. I'm at least back up and running. I'll have to figure out what I want to do about the model.

[terse venture]

Literally just burned $5 on an "API rate limit reached" response 😥

[wanton mason]

I also waited more than 24 hrs

[restive sierra]

awsome!.. if you need anything else i am more then happy to help.. you can DM me too. 🙂 trust me i have had alot of battle with openclaw and updates.. and issues along the way and so many time i have had to review the docs and find fix's.. but i have learned my lesson about upgrading to soon lol

[wanton mason]

Can u help me with the api issue?

[wary yarrow]

I had to do an onboarding to reset my openAI auth yesterday. That set the default tool profile to messaging, so I changed that back to full. But something else also got hinky with exec ability. Now my bot is seemingly on a different shell and can't access my clawvault installation.

Is there something else I need to reset having to do with shell execs?

[safe edge]

I’m wondering how to get more deterministic behavior with task routing and tool calling, no matter how explicit my prompt files are, the head agent seems to just do whatever. I’m looking into using the official Lobster tool - which doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of attention, and wondering if this is the best option? Lobster appears to be the solution to the high-level problem, but also conflicts with docker sandboxing too, since it must run on the host and requires either poking big holes in sandbox security or writing a wrapper around it to ignore the sandbox status.

In short - how can I get agents to follow directions reliably?! I feel like I’m missing something big here, as with strictly prompt driven instruction it’s unusably disobedient.

[heady shell]

try resitting your sessions with '/reset'

let me know if that works

When i get that issue, it usually fixes it for me.

[merry latch]

im sitting here reading api limit issues, and with have you, i cant even get this installed with the installer lol just an error after error my most recent is " \u25c7 Install Gateway service (recommended)
\u2502 Yes
\u2502
\u25c7 Gateway service runtime
\u2502 Node (recommended)
Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable: Command failed: systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gateway.service"

if im not mistaken, theres supposed to be more options for the gateway service run time, but nothing els shows up,

all i get is "Node"

which in turn says thats systemctl command fails, and kicks me out of the installer, so far great time with openclaw very useful

[sage grail]

Do you have node installed? Try node --version to check

[fallen isle]

This is a big questionmark for me, too. I have been experimenting with hooks hoping to be able to inject instructions on top of the context, only to find out that directions are only injected in the system prompt this way. For that I don't need a hook obviously. Any suggestions on this are greatly appreciated.

[merry latch]

version number 22.22.1

[restive sierra]

hey just saw this... do you still need help?

[sage grail]

Sounds like you've had a few attempts at installing. Been there, done that. What I had to do is remove openclaw completely and start from scratch making sure I got rid of everything...

openclaw gateway stop
openclaw gateway uninstall

systemctl --user disable --now openclaw-gateway.service
rm -f ~/.config/systemd/user/openclaw-gateway.service
systemctl --user daemon-reload

Removes all configs, API keys, and session tokens

rm -rf ~/.openclaw

If they used any specific profiles (like --profile work):

rm -rf ~/.openclaw-*

npm uninstall -g openclaw

Reinstall following current docs in the openclaw repo

[merry latch]

correct lol, im doing this in a ubuntu vm, as far as starting over, i just make a new vm, and delete the old one, is there a better distro for this? or "should" it just work on ubuntu, if so what version is better to use?

[last pulsar]

If you have 1 api rate limited, you literally have to put a side api as a fallback, you can get alibaba code plan, minimax, or kimi code api, or google ai studio trial key as the fallback

[sage grail]

You'll be fine with an Ubuntu VM. I was set up that way before but moved it over to an old gaming rig, also running Ubuntu now, with a 2070 Super so I can use local Ollama LLMs for heartbeats and simple tasks. My suggestion is to go through the normal openclaw install, but if you're able (this was huge for me), select a good LLM like GPT 5.2/3-codex or Sonnet, while you set things up. Keep the installation to the bare minimum. Select your model, select a chat channel, no skills or anything else. Get it up and running and build on from there.

[merry latch]

copy that, ill see how that goes

[umbral shuttle]

Has anyone here actually gotten the full OpenClaw browser setup working on Windows with WSL2, not Mac? I mean the dashboard/WebChat using the Chrome extension relay to control a visible Windows Chrome tab reliably, not just the CLI browser commands. On my setup the relay connects, the tab attaches, and browser commands work from CLI, but in WebChat it often just talks back instead of actually doing the browser task.

[vagrant sigil]

i don't seem to be able to get the telgram plugin to work with attachments. Overnight it decided to blow it all away and go to a python plugin which didn't work either... any clues?

[misty vault]

Has anyone gotten 5.4 working yet, or do I just need to wait?

[misty vault]

I have not, so I just did it directly into powershell windows, and then it works fine.

[rich thicket]

How do you directly into power shell if you don’t mind me asking. I’m also trying to get 5.4 with oath via codex working ,

Just seen this

It’s already available now in Codex with ChatGPT OAuth sign-in. OpenAI’s Codex changelog says that as of March 5, 2026, GPT-5.4 is available everywhere you can use Codex: the Codex app, CLI, IDE extension, and Codex Cloud. The Codex auth docs also confirm that the CLI and IDE extension support “Sign in with ChatGPT” OAuth-style login

[misty vault]

Without going through everything. You basically do all the normal steps outside of WSL2 to get installed. the one liner: "iwr -useb https://openclaw.ai/install.ps1 | iex" more or less works, but you do need to baby it. The key is to restart the shell if it fails.

[serene dust]

Anyone else having issues with 5.3-codex? I’m having to use 5.2 due to 5.3 not fulfilling requests.

5.3 = I’ll run and report back (never reports back)
5.2 = runs and reports no issues

[misty vault]

I've found you have to get the right provider /model for codex to work, and it seems inconsistent on the version. the provider openai and openai-codex are different for some reason

[serene dust]

I use my ChatGPT subscription weekly codex limit. Keep costs down. So I try to avoid OpenAI as to not hit the API

So I use the OpenAI-codex provider with OAuth

[prisma inlet]

Guys i have a question how do I set for the main agent and sub agents different reasoning levels like medium high extra high for gpt 5.3 codex whats the exact model name i have to write for the openclaw bot

[mental condor]

5.4 is broken for me. ask to do something then it goes and never follows up

[serene dust]

Not sure if there is an argument you can use when defining the agents in the json config. Try reasoning arg.

I know it can be done in model.

  "ollama": {
    "baseUrl": "http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1",
    "api": "openai-completions",
    "models": [
      {
        "id": "phi3:mini",
        "name": "Phi-3 Mini",
        "reasoning": false,
        "input": [
          "text"
        ],

[serene dust]

Same for me with 5.3-codex.

“Yes I’ll do that for you and report back”
5 years later

[mental condor]

5.3 codex works perfeclty for me

[serene dust]

On OpenAI-codex provider?

[mental condor]

yes using oauth

[serene dust]

I’m having to use 5.2-codex for that reason

Damn. Just me then

Did you switch mid session? Or use 5.3-codex on a new session/reset

[wanton mason]

Wait leme try

[wanton mason]

Yes i guess

[wanton mason]

Umm i tried it says new session started then again same issue

[mental condor]

i was using 5.3codex and tried 5.4 today and failed so went back

[formal nacelle]

Hey all, how to put properly your bot researching/reading discord/reddit 24/7?

[vocal oriole]

Anyone here who can send me a polymarket invite?

[restive fossil]

I want to setup slack as my main communication channel. I also want to setup skills that use whatsapp to communicate. I never want to communicate with my OC via WhatsApp. Has anyone configured their OpenClaw for this use case?

[graceful ravine]

Hey guys, need help with Discord bot setup

Having an issue where my bot (Genghiz) works perfectly in DMs but won't create sessions from server channel messages.

Bot can read & send in channels ✅
DMs work great ✅
But channel messages don't trigger sessions ❌

Tried: all intents enabled, reinvited with Admin, delivery is open, multiple restarts.

Anyone experienced this? Is it a server-side thing?

[sage grail]

I'm not really understanding your workflow. For me, I have 7 agents, each with their own assigned channel. I communicate with my coordinator (Blake), who divies out the work based on what the task is. The other agents report to their channel with what they did/updates/blockers, etc. I can talk to each agent in their channels but I have to @ them.

Are you wanting something like that?

[graceful ravine]

when i send any message to any channel ith or without mentioning, nothing happens at all.

[meager ocean]

I got this fault now after I tried to add openai codex.
I just told my agent to add it to the models, after that nothing is working.
***- agents.list.0.model: Invalid input ***is the fault I get. Anyone have a quick fix.
openclaw doctor did not fix it

[radiant nymph]

Hey, I just commented on issue #30760 (modelByChannel not inheriting to Discord forum threads). https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/30760

This is a pretty significant blocker for my setup. Is there a way to help get eyes on it, or is there a process for feature request prioritization?

[fiery magnet]

Hi everyone I had openclaw working on a free cloud api for kimi k2.5 through ollama i maxed out the usage and
Have downloaded locally through ollama GLM 4.7-flashq4_K_M on a Mac mini M4 pro 24GB, talking to the agent through openclaw gateway dashboard the agent doesn’t reply to messages, just 3 dots and then says LLM request timed out I’ve spent days trying to figure it out can anybody help. Is the LLM too big for the set up?

[chilly condor]

hey all..keep getting this error here:

⚠️ Agent failed before reply: No API key found for provider "http-127-0-0-1-1234". Auth store: /Users//.openclaw/agents/main/agent/auth-profiles.json (agentDir: /Users//.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

I know it has to do with the endpoint API but im running local so im confused

[chilly condor]

to add to this i am choosing custom provider since im using lm studio and this worked for me previously but not anymore.

FIXED by entering any API code (lol blank just doesnt work anymore)

new error:

Error rendering prompt with jinja template: "No user query found in messages.". This is usually an issue with the model's prompt template. If you are using a popular model, you can try to search the model under lmstudio-community, which wi...

[earnest scaffold]

I am trying openclaw with qwen3.5 on remote ollama PC. I got LLM request timeout error. does anyone try this one yet? Can you please give me the json configure for this setup? thank you

[subtle apex]

Do you guys run openclaw on VPS with docker or plain install? I came to lot of problems with docker lot of setup issues thinking about moving to plain install

[chilly condor]

I'm about to try with docker give me a sec.

[high heron]

VPS

Local is def easier

But I like vps

And it runs 24/7

[subtle apex]

And you run it in docker or plain install on the VPs ?

[high heron]

Plain install on vps

[high heron]

I use OCI btw

[trim pulsar]

I had Claude code set it up. Took 5min. Used tailscale to connect them

[subtle apex]

What is oci

[high heron]

Oracles cloud

It’s free

[chilly condor]

Anyone know how I can give my agent web browsing tools

[subtle apex]

But you still didn’t tell me do you run it in docker on the VPS or just installed it

[fresh grail]

What model are yall using for browser automation?

[nova aspen]

Having an issue with openclaw and dsicord DM. Agent can talk in channels and receive/respond to DM but is unable to start a DM. Is this possible have others done this?

[buoyant pilot]

Hi folks, could I know which UIs are you using? Or it's just pure Telegram and Console?

[high heron]

I just made one

[high heron]

I said I don’t use docker

[high heron]

^^^

[chilly condor]

Do you guys give your agents direct file creation/shell execuation allow?

Trying to get it to remove tavily and install searxng , but it needs allowance..not sure if that's safe lol

[still shale]

hello fellow crabbers, is there a way to see what Openclaw is doing after a request came in from Discord for example ? My CPU is right now at like 40% for about 2 minutes , GPU is 0% (local setup, no remote LLMs used) but I have no idea what is happening 🙂

[chilly condor]

Anyone know how to get two models loaded and not have chat prioritize the newest loaded ?

Also getting a weird no reply error , thing literally started saying NO to me lol

[steep dragon]

which model provides the more tokens??? im gettint no tokens a lot with open AI

[worldly crown]

hello all, I have OpenClaw running in LXC on my home LAN. I want to access its ui/dashboard from another machine (on the same LAN). In the config file, I have the mode set to local and bind to lan. Also added my other machine on allowedOrigins. However, I am still getting "origin not allowed (open the Control UI from the gateway host or allow it in gateway.controlUi.allowedOrigins)" when hitting OpenClaw from the second machine's browser. I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or not.

[thorny cobalt]

im trying to connect my nvidia api to my openclaw but it gives me moonshot/kimi-k2.5: HTTP 401: Invalid Authentication (auth)

[high heron]

prob API problem

[devout linden]

maybe some insights here?

[unique cape]

Been encountering some bugs trying to configure my telegram channel with openclaw

[still shale]

I had it at debug level, now changed to trace.
"logging": {
"level": "trace",
"consoleLevel": "trace",
"consoleStyle": "pretty"
},

[vagrant sigil]

its a complete PITA... taken me a week to get attachments working and i think it was by accident...

[shadow stone]

What's the current best way for my claw to use a browser?

Accurate, and preferably cheap on tokens

[azure cosmos]

Playwright if there isn't any bot detection or if you are going to the same site over and over Selenium

[hexed elbow]

Just setting up on windows to play around...anyone have a vps to use that they would suggest?

[jagged apex]

Thanks for your help today. I got it back up and running. Had to roll back to 2026.3.1 and remove whisper. Will try to add that back later.

[stable cedar]

My OC was successfully parsed the voice input using Whisper on 3/3. But on 3/5, it kept saying it couldn't understand voice. I don't think I had changed version...

I have been successfully using Telegram to communicate with my Claw. When I wanted to add 2nd cellphone, it kept saying the apps that we developed had to setup webhook in order to let 2nd phone to use the app we have developed. But I don't know how to pair the 2nd phone (forgot how to get the first phone paired). And the webhook that my claw developed doesn't initiate any action as what could before. How to resolve it?

[junior ingot]

hey all my openclaw on wsl just starting crashing out of the blue and now it won't work at all anymore, has this happened to anyone else with the new update ?

[steep dragon]

hey buds, is GLM 5 free to use ? i wont get the tokens erorr ???

credits* not toknes

[valid perch]

I don't have an answer to your exact question, but I'm also running OpenClaw in LXC. The virtual machine has sshd enabled, so to connect from a second machine I just forward port 18789 over SSH and the web interface works.

[silent latch]

how do i start traininig and interacting with my bot?

i have the telgram bot father open and its installed on my system, cant figure out how to start coding it

any recommendations on a premade system i can use?

[dusk saddle]

Agent failed before reply: All models failed (2): anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6: Provider anthropic has billing issue (skipping all models) (billing)

how do i fix it i cant get it fixed does anthropic has issues?

[worldly crown]

Yeah. I was hoping to avoid that step. 😔

[cursive ibex]

Hey, has anyone used openclaw for building trading algorithms and has it worked

It is a fun project, but is it possible theoretically

Like if it has been refined should the data be there to build off?

Yeah that’s obviously the basics and openclaw can get all that and save it no problem I’m a database but building from should be easier?

And are there any examples of it being done successfully?

[weak sun]

hey all, is aynone free to support rn?

[still shale]

@azure cosmos i think most ppl aren't asking for some HFT ideas, but just to use openclaw to gather information on stocks, combined with news and then come up some advice like 'hey today this stock looks, based on this and that event which happened <30 minutes> ago.

Basically automating their own manual decision making process.

[weak sun]

theres a couple things i wanna check:

• the mistral api is returning 404
• workspace files arent being created, but were read on startup - soul.md etc are still boilerplate
• i wanna give the ai some tools and control of the workspace it runs in, i.e. WSL. the machine is pretty much isolated from my life, it's a windows arm devkit i bought to mess around with. the ai says it's working, but there's nothing much going on in htop

unfortunately i want my ai to be a lobotomite so i will use mistral. i'm sorry, aspen, but u dont get my bank account

[still shale]

i totally agree. hence I'd suggest to do some virtual trading. Give the bot a virtual budget. Let it "buy" and "sell" as it wants. but nothing is really bought and no money goes anywhere. Then evaluate after an hour, a day or a week what the bot did. Likely it is what you already state ; the bot would have lost x% of the budget.

But once you automated that, you could have not just 1 agent with 1 virtual budget running, you could start 5, 10, 100. With different strategies, more/less risk, directed at certain markets etc, feeding in with different news sources. And see if it would work.

Just setting that up, figuring it out, could be fun to do, if you have time.

I worked on a self driving R/C car with cheap lidars and laser distance sensors. Commercial value: 0. But fun when it worked (and not).

Yeah I see the requests 'hello how do I install Openclaw and make money' everywhere on the interwebs.

[cursive ibex]

Hahahaha so true I wonder what the top answer is

[weak sun]

Hmm fuck okay so

wait i cant post pictures here can i

does anyone get http 400s with mistral models?

[bronze rivet]

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i just switched to gemeni flash 2, and its been having grammatic errors, spelling errors and random jargon. context is at 10% tokens at 102k

out of 669

🧮 Tokens: 102k in / 669 out
📚 Context: 102k/1.0m (10%) · 🧹 Compactions: 2
🧵 Session: agent:main:main • updated just now
⚙️ Runtime: direct · Think: off
🪢 Queue: collect (depth 0)

nvm i think its a case of model mismatch

[tired sonnet]

HI i have a problem my claw can anyone help me with this error?

[gaunt rover]

why is clawhub returing rate limit exceeded everytime i try to install skill

[tired sonnet]

why cant i share images here 🥲

[terse stirrup]

My agent keeps saying tools not found and it literally cant execute any tools at all since I installed the new update not even echo hi when asking it. if somone could help much appreciated

[restive sierra]

Roll it back

[tired sonnet]

can u help running mine? its my first time

[stone sinew]

Does QMD memory work in sandbox mode? How do the sandboxed tools call it?

[nocturne zephyr]

Just a sec...

[tired sonnet]

node.exe : npm error code ENOENT
At line:1 char:1

• & "C:\Program Files\nodejs/node.exe" "C:\Program Files\nodejs/node_mo ...

•   + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (npm error code ENOENT:String) [], RemoteException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError

[nocturne zephyr]

https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools#tool-profiles-base-allowlist <-- Change the profile type from minimal to coding or full.

[restive sierra]

What's up?

[terse stirrup]

Thanks Im gonna follow this

[tired sonnet]

@restive sierra its giving me this

[nocturne zephyr]

I'm fairly sure Krill has seen this. Have you searched #1459642797895319552 or posted there?

[weak sun]

Aspen is fucking dead

[tired sonnet]

no not yet

[steep dragon]

Do we need to pay a model to roll openclaw like. Chatgpt subscription??

[nocturne zephyr]

In order for OpenClaw to work it needs a smart, tool-capable model. Generally that will be a cloud model like OpenAI or Anthropic's models. Yes, those generally cost money.

[steep dragon]

Ok thanks

[restive sierra]

Classic Windows + Node ENOENT. That's PowerShell not finding a file/path that npm is looking for. Usually means.... close PowerShell, reopen
PATH not updated - Node installed but npm isn't in the system PATH yet

Close and reopen PowerShell as Administrator, then run:
node --version
npm --version
If those work, retry the update. If npm isn't found, you might need to reinstall Node.js and make sure "Add to PATH" is checked during install.

[steep dragon]

I have a copilot paued version that came wirh school axcount and a genini from my work, those work as equally ? And can inhave them all added and use them all when one rubs out of tokens?

[nocturne zephyr]

And I'd add...maybe don't run OpenClaw on your daily driver system if you main Windows. I get that it might be difficult to find a second machine, something scavenged, but it's generally safer. But I know that's not always an option.

[tired sonnet]

can u share update and reinstall things?

[restive sierra]

If you must have on windows... Look into adding wsl.. and run it from in there

[tired sonnet]

alright

[restive sierra]

Windows users - strongly recommend running OpenClaw in WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), not native Windows. Saves a ton of headaches with paths, permissions, and Node.

Quick setup:

1. Open PowerShell as Admin
2. wsl --install
3. Restart, open Ubuntu from Start menu
4. Then install OpenClaw inside WSL - it just works

Save yourself the troubleshooting on native Windows edge cases. WSL is like 3 minutes to set up and then everything runs like Linux because it "is" Linux.

That's if you don't have anything else to put it on

[rugged zenith]

Trying to get my Claw Bot fully Operational. Running into hurdles in token access. My tokens run out quickly with the basic Claude plan (API). Is there a good source of tokens other than that?

🫡

[solid mirage]

Start digging into multi agents. Have them use local models. Make specific jobs for the agents. Use the main agent with claude be only the orchestrator. I'm assigning ollama as local model, kimi2.5 as main reasonor when needed. Make a figureitout agent with brave access. Send them to help you with things you do not know how to do

[rugged zenith]

any resources you could link to tackle that 🙏 😎

[solid mirage]

Its buried in my Grok and openclaw at the moment. Im driving right now ill try and remember to send you the guides (free not behind paywall or "classes")

They aren't my guides

[nocturne zephyr]

I recommend GLM5 by z.ai; their coding plan is decently priced, and gives you a good amount of usage per 5h/1week/month. (Those are the groupings that most subscription services track your usage under and have limits for.) Personally I use GLM5, Kimi K2.5, with a fallback to MiniMax M2.5, Haiku, and if my internet is down, my local 3-bit GLM5 instance.

[rugged zenith]

so basically, distrubiting the processing among these different models and their efficiencies makes the best use of tokens?

[nocturne zephyr]

Yes, I pay...a lot in subscription fees; around $67/mo. for z.ai, MiniMax, and moonshot (Kimi), and a Claude Code subscription, but that's just for Claude Code and claude.ai use, not for OpenClaw.

[nocturne zephyr]

Yes and no. I use GLM5 for all my main work; GTD and ADHD support. I also use GLM5 for first-pass coding (refinement I do directly in Claude Code). I use Haiku for heartbeats (in a separate agent) and I also use Haiku for email classification. (Specifically I do not run email classification in an agentic loop; it has no tool access. All it hands back is a list of processed data to OpenClaw, which should be less likely to be prompt injected.) I pay API fees for the heartbeats and email classification, which amounts to maybe $1/day on a bad day.

The other models are fallbacks when z.ai's GLM5 $#!+s the bed, and goes down. (Their infrastructure is not...spectacular, and it's in China. The other ones are also, except Haiku, but they built out better IMO.) In general, if my main agents fall back to one of them, I know it immediately, because I'm talking to them and they get dumber. 🙁

[rugged zenith]

does running a llm locally do any good?

[turbid lantern]

Anyone knows if there is a way to create cron jobs that do not load the whole huge markdown-files context at their start? Just want the agent to do some cleanup jobs, and bringing 40k+ tokens just to find a couple of files and clean them up seems quite excessive.

[little blade]

Is there any way to start a new setup of the Gateway on 2026.3.2? I’ve been reading around and found this is a bug that has been fixed in the version to come, but are there any workarounds?

Gateway service check failed: Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable: Command failed: systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gateway.service

[nocturne zephyr]

... Usually, no. I have a prosumer level of GPU, main RAM, and CPU power, so it's...doable. For example, I change to my local model when I'm doing tax-related things, because as open as I am, I'm...hesitant to send my tax data to a Chinese lab. Great folks, good technology, and I love that they've open sourced it, but... China has a grip on technology companies that is...uncomfortable to me. I'm confiden my data is uninteresting, but there are levels of intimacy that I'm not yet comfortable with, there.

If the hardest privacy and local control of your data is critical to you, then yes, obviously, running the 'smarts' of an agent like OpenClaw locally will be something you want to do. But it's stupid expensive, and really, 99% of the time, you and I are just...not that interesting to nationstates.

[echo pine]

Right now, the only option is heartbeat.lightContext: true. Hopefully that feature like you describe, comes to cron jobs soon.

https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat

[turbid lantern]

I'm looking at the context sent to do a small job ... and it has a HUGE amount of unneccessary stuff in there

[echo pine]

Totally. You could have your agent make system crons, instead of openclaw crons. But I prefer keeping all my stuff in one spot, so I use openclaw crons for now and just eat the tokens 🤷‍♂️

[turbid lantern]

claw crons have features that I'd like to keep, like delivery of failures to telegram, and potentially announcement of results, etc...

[nocturne zephyr]

You could move the cron jobs to a separate agent that just handles cron jobs and has a smaller global context.

[turbid lantern]

yeah, I'm doing that now

but even then, the openclaw pre-amble is quite big

[flat rune]

Anyone running slack – i'm trying to set up a workflow where:

• agent posts a social media draft
• i approve with an emoji reaction
• the emoji reaction triggers the agent to wake up and take action.
  This worked by polling on heartbeat but that burns too many tokens, so I turned it off. Then I was happy to see that a recent update to Open Claw added support for reactionNotifications, with an "own" parameter (agent is triggered by all reactions that are on its "own" messages), but it doesn't seem to work. Has anyone successfully set up this workflow?

[echo pine]

Openclaw isn’t for efficiency bro. It’s for ripping through 1 billion tokens to make your first Mission Control

[turbid lantern]

anyone of you is monitoring the actual tokens/prompts being sent and received?

[nocturne zephyr]

Only when things go wrong.

[devout kettle]

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/iikljwqq3wikflmuo0owg/Screenshot-From-2026-03-07-12-59-40.png?rlkey=a7rqqqbx9cotov8iqtpwn0iih&st=vt0le420&dl=0

Looks like I couldn't edit permission for my agent: dashboard -> tools -> [add permissions] -> FAIL to click save button

Can someone help me with it?

[glacial fjord]

Anyone allow the main agent to edit openclaw.json?

[turbid lantern]

Yes. They improved it in recent versions, quite a bit more difficult to shoot yourself in the foot. But still possible, which is why I always keep an eye on the gateway's log whenever I ask something like that.

You should tell the agent to use config.patch config.put and config.get when it does the edits, that way it gets rejects when it tries to do something wrong.

[waxen lily]

Does anyone know how to easily create and manage 10-100 IG accounts?

[turbid lantern]

this is not really the address for this kind of question

[waxen lily]

wym

unrelated to openclaw btw

[glacial fjord]

How do you provide the openclaw.json access to your main agent in the first place? Do you change the workspace to .openclaw or is their better way?

[turbid lantern]

I am not running the agents in sandboxed mode, so they have access to whatever the gateway's user has access to on the filesystem.

[flat rune]

all the time, but they mess it up if you aren't careful -- I always include the instruction to make a backup of the file before editing, ONLY edit the parts that need editing (don't overwrite anything else), never add any configuration parameters without checking whether they exist first, and after the edit, verify that you did not overwrite anything accidentally by comparing it to the backup, and only if it passes verification, do you restart the gateway. it's pretty dumb that you have to do all that, but i have arrived at this conclusion after a lot of pain. all the agent has to do is assume that a parameter exists or is called something and be wrong, and the gateway restart will fail and you'll have to manually edit the json file. if this happens, just ask a cloud AI in the browser what to do by pasting the entire json in (with sensitive items removed first) and asknig it what's wrong.

[turbid lantern]

Thank you for the advice, I already started doing that, but now its done. Made a new agent with no soul and no memories, gave it a heartbeat.lightContext, and moved the crons into its heartbeat ... hopefully that will make it a bit more optimized in terms of token usage. Also moved some of the logic away from the LLM and into scripts that output a lot less noise and garbage by filtering stuff out.

[glacial fjord]

I am not running the agents in sandboxed

[frigid pier]

Quick question, anyone here tried Atomic Bot AI to cloud run their claw? I've been looking at it and curious if its good for the price

[nocturne zephyr]

You need a little bit of SOUL and AGENT. Like...just a soupçon.

[turbid lantern]

all it does is reads the skill markdown, and runs a couple of scripts ...

[mint idol]

Hi! Can’t enable Telegram stream trough the web UI

[strong flame]

is there a way to log telegram messages without adding all users to allowlist?

[zinc burrow]

Hey team! I'm trying to figure out the best way to connect my bot's google account (but it looks like the gog skill isn't possible because I'm using the Linux server on Hetzner).... did anyone else use this method? Should I just go the OAuth route and forget about gog?

[candid lava]

install gogcli

[mint idol]

The toggle button reset to disabled state after click on “Save”

[turbid lantern]

Google just released an official cli for all of their workspace apps ... might be interesting to take a look at that.

[worldly crown]

anyone here have a separate whatsapp account setup for their Openclaw? I setup a new whatsapp account, relink to the new account, but so far nothing seems to be working. I don't see a new session associated with the new whatsapp channel. Nvmd. A simple reboot fixed it.

[oak geyser]

hi folks - basic question. Ive been using openclaw for code generation, which is helpful. it's running in a special Linux VM I created. I've heard of people making openclaw "autonomous" where it goes off and does a series of tasks fully on its own. I can't seem to do that. I tell it go to X, create a table or what not. Tell it to iterate 100+ times or more, and it always comes back in just a couple minutes. Is there some way to make it more autonomous? I'm using codex model so not sure if thats the problem

[limber rapids]

Best way to make it autonomous is Crons and heartbeat

It makes a plan or objective

Works on it

Using a cron it reminds itself later continue or do something else

[deep vessel]

Hey guys, new to OpenClaw

Has anyone tried local deployment?

What is the best model for local deployment?

[oak geyser]

thanks!!!

[limber rapids]

Welcome!
Yes I have an agent on a local device(s).
Depends on how big your device ram is.
Qwen3.5 9b with ollama works ok

https://docs.openclaw.ai/providers/ollama

[deep vessel]

I see, I have 64GB of RAM with 12 VRAM I believe

[fathom walrus]

Is anyone having double messages via telgram as well via latest version 2025.3.2?

It corrects itself though, it removed the dupe message. But first streams both

[fringe frigate]

how do we deal with the bot not doing any tool/cli/exec after updating to 2-march version?

[vivid cobalt]

What’s the best way to access an Ubuntu machine remotely through a web browser?

Ideally something that:

• works from any browser (no client install)
• gives a full desktop view (not just terminal)
• is reasonably secure

Any good tools or setups people recommend?

[pseudo oyster]

ollama also has cloud models with the $20/mo subscription. that's what i use with my openclaw.
chatgpt (or any frontier model like gemini or claude) can help walk you through this setup after basic openclaw installation.

[pseudo oyster]

i've heard people say that the most robust “through a browser” option is to run a web-based remote desktop gateway on the Ubuntu box, with Apache Guacamole or noVNC as the front-end.
Ask ChatGpt/Gemini/Claude about Apache Guacamole and they'll hook you up and answer specific questions.

[pseudo oyster]

I noticed an agent kind of pretending to do work or hallucinating it, then i figured it was a combination of using an LLM that wasn't very operations oriented, and that my tools.md file was getting bloated.
I switched from Kimi K2.5 to GLM-5, and restructured my tool.md folder into an indexing system under 200tokens that pointed them to tool files and skill files instead of needing to read one huge file filled with processes, and remember or guess at what i wanted them to do.
also, being clear and asking for them to use a specific tool to accomplish a specific task helps if you're not doing that.

[steel inlet]

Hi, how can i remote access my mac mini from my mac book while travelling? (mainly to access control panel and mission control?) thanks

[deep vessel]

Hey guys another question about local deployment, I have installed Ollama with the Qwen3.5 model, but how may I connect it to openclaw?

I tried to set it up using the "openclaw onboard --install-daemon" command but I'm pretty stuck on quite a few steps

[rigid osprey]

what did you do, did you use ollama's own openclaw setup (=install openclaw with the ollama command) or did you not yet install openclaw?

@deep vessel you can actually install openclaw using an ollama command, it will help you onboard & setting it up using ollama: https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/openclaw

[deep vessel]

Oh wow thank you so much

I was installing openclaw and ollama separately

I will try this out later

[vital flax]

I went down similar rabbit hole but in my instance my Ollama server is remote. I ended up adding the model details to ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json but Ollama did publish a blog on how to do it https://ollama.com/blog/openclaw

Hey guys, im attempting to setup openclawenterprise . The instructions indicate you need to install from source which I have done. Then went onto run the docker version as well for small team setups. Currently struggling to enable enterprise features configured in config.yaml. Anyone have any experience with setting this up successfully?
I suppose my confusion is whether you run both source openclaw and openclawenterprise docker version and how to mange duplicate/conflicting settings that are in openclaw.json and config.yaml.

[deep vessel]

Hey guys, maybe I'm being silly but how may I allow my OpenClaw to access the internet?

[kind thorn]

I installed OpenClaw on Windows, but after answering the initial setup questions like “Who are you?” and “Who am I?”, the persona was not written into the .md file. can anyone help?

[vital flax]

I believe you need Brave Browser API Key https://docs.openclaw.ai/tools/web

[lucid stump]

hey guys i have a windows laptop that i didnt use anymore that i want to locally run ollama on it but im having problems on what modles i should run. Specs are Ryzen 7 6800H, 32gb 4800mhz dual channel, RTX 3060 mobile version 6gb vram. what do you guys think fit best for my case

[near grove]

Hello!

What would be considered as the best approach to do a clean reinstall of Openclaw while keeping agents and memory ?

This is my first install so I played around a bit, migrated from MacOS to Ubuntu Server (systemctl first then to systemd).
I'm satisfied with my agents' config now, but would like to cleanup the rest.

Do I just paste / replace the agent workspaces + the memory folder in the new project ?

[upbeat cave]

Is having a STATE.md good practice? Claw recommended it to me to maintain work state beyond memory.md but I can easily see those becoming divergent sources of truth if not managed carefully

[steep arrow]

I'm getting an error that all of my tools are not found all the sudden. Can't read, write or exec. Any ideas of what is going on? I've been using OC since about launch and have never encountered this

[deep vessel]

Thanks, though I see that Brave's API is paid?

Are there an alternative free way for OpenClaw to connect to internet?

[steep arrow]

It's free as long as you're not doing crazy amounts of queries

[deep vessel]

Don't you need to pay at least 5 dollars or something like that?

[steep arrow]

Nope

At least I haven't had to do any of that. I'll double check

Yeah. I'm on the completely free tier

[upbeat lichen]

Hey there! Is anybody having the following problem?

• With the new version, as I'm chatting on the TUI, i see that he's preparing the answer (orange text), but then, once he's ready, I get nothing. If i check the dashboard, i can see the answer, and if i refresh the tui just by doing /agent and selecting the same agent on which i am, i will see the answer. It's as if the TUI is not refreshing with the answer. Anybody seeing something similar?

[mild heron]

hello all, how does one apply the fix proposed here at https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/7551 ? I have no idea where/how to apply proposed fix

[keen wigeon]

hey i just installed Version 2026.3.2 but it seems to have alot of tools missing from the previous version. it cant setup telegram for me or read webpages

[zinc notch]

Which branch can we use to temporary use gpt5.4 oauth?

[high heron]

gpt 5.4 will be in openclaw today

[lost rune]

Since this morning i've settuped codex and now my bot only have messaging ?
• ✅ message, sessions_*, session_status
• ❌ read, write, edit, exec, search, browser

and i can't figure how to let him have all rights ?

[high heron]

set

/think xhigh

and turn

/verbose on
if you want

[orchid bronze]

@Novalan After setting up Codex, your bot's tool policy probably got restricted. Check your config:

1. In openclaw.json, look for exec.security — it should be "full" not "deny":

{ "exec": { "security": "full" } }

2. Check ~/.openclaw/agents/main/agent/tools.json — make sure read, write, edit, exec aren't in the disabled list.

3. Restart: openclaw gateway restart

The Codex setup wizard sometimes sets a restrictive tool policy. Setting exec.security to full and removing tool restrictions should restore all capabilities.

[lost rune]

I don't have any exec in my openclaw json.
-bash: /home/ubuntu/.openclaw/agents/main/agent/tools.json: No such file or directory

[lost rune]

Set it up but no change on exec permissions

[high heron]

um... thats weird

try /new and try again

because its usually /think off

thats not doing exec

[lost rune]

Oh wow

Seems that the new session is good ?

[willow crystal]

yo anyone have dashboard to track the agent and subagent activity ?

sometimes i dont know whether the agent is stuck/stale/hang or the subagent is still working on something 🥲

[high heron]

its working?

[lost rune]

Oh no mb nope

[mild heron]

HELP: unable to access gateway by opening http://127.0.0.1:18789 and getting "connection reset by peer" / running on gui-less ubuntu under oracle OCI.
my UFW rules state listed as:
To Action From

---

22/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere
80/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere
443/tcp ALLOW IN Anywhere
18789 on lo ALLOW IN Anywhere

TIA

[lost rune]

Je ne peux pas lancer des commandes directement sur ton shell depuis ce chat Telegram, donc je ne peux pas l’appliquer moi-même ici.

Translation : He can't exec shell command in my shell

[high heron]

mb ask krill. #1459642797895319552

[mild heron]

oh and openclaw runnign on a docker container

[vital solar]

hi all. how can I set a local model to be used with openclaw?

so i dont run into token issues?

[scarlet jay]

hey! i dont get my tools to work

I already saw the issues on github, so I updated the agents.list and added the main one. Now I can edit it but it still doesnt work. I'll add a screenshot of my tools (all activated) but my agent is still not capable of executing commands for example

[surreal coyote]

anyone know the best way to get Gemini 3.1 pro in openclaw now antigravity is not supported

[mild heron]

you have to configure your openclaw.json
some directives are: models.providers - this to register your local provider (guessing llama)
then agents.defauls.model - pointing to the model in your ollama

sorry can't be much mroe specific as I'm a noob here

[mild heron]

or maybe just run the onboarding process again... and selct ollama... I guess

[fringe frigate]

kimi was perfect for me. did something changed in code? I selfhost kimi2.5 not the api

[covert crown]

where?

[high heron]

Today bro

Wdym where😭

[covert crown]

like how do i get it lol

[vital solar]

im currently resetting up openclaw and i want it to use a local model so i dont run into token issues (run out of tokens) i now get the following, can someone helpe me: Agent failed before reply: No API key found for provider "google". Auth store: /home/uwe/.openclaw/agents/main/agent/auth-profiles.json (agentDir: /home/uwe/.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

test

wrong channel sorry

(the test)

[wheat plank]

I updated to the latest version and then my openclaw started behaving weird, so I removed openclaw.json and did the onboarding again.
Now my openclaw cronjobs no longer run because they don't have shell access. I cannot find in the documentation how to give him shell access again, it wasn't in my old openclaw.json file neither.
Any clue what to add to be able to execute scripts via cron again?

[chilly condor]

Anyone know why I would be getting no reply errors via a second loaded model (qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct)

[glacial fjord]

all the time, but they mess it up if you

[lucid stump]

I’m running a local model for testing purposes and I set a seperate user profile (no admin access) for open claw fixed the almost all the issues except for this one thing and it can’t access my hardware nor perform at all is that normal ? Is there a setting that I must change ? Or is it because of the user profile ?

[proven skiff]

Since the last update the agent needs explicit permission. In your openclaw.json under "tools":{"allow":["exec"

[obtuse crater]

set model explicitly in the config if you did not , and also considering to enter a dummy auth

[full lava]

Anyone's agents repeat themselves? I'll get a reply then a few seconds later a slightly rewordee copy of the previous message. I've asked it to stop this and it said it has fixed itself. ONly to tell me it has fixed itself a few seconds later. It's like a parrot. LOL. Annnoying as hell. Any ideas?

[azure cosmos]

Why switching to another LLM model, downgrading or upgrading, or reviewing its MD files (although I cannot imagine there would be instructions to repeat, lol).

[full lava]

I've tried all that so far. However it did not reload the seesion after it said it made changes. Let me try that. Your comment made me think it may still be remembering bad info.

[azure cosmos]

I'm not seeing this issue on github. It could be a lot of different things. Restarting the gateway and making sure there isn't another gateway running (I'd think this would throw an error). I think there is a openclaw gateway command to see the logs, maybe a double prompt is occuring

[latent prawn]

anyone can recommend best container to operate my openclaw, i am with myclaw now, any advise🐾

[vital solar]

@obtuse crater hi. what model should i chose and how do i enter dummy auth?

[pseudo oyster]

I'm not sure really. This was Kimi thru ollama cloud.
Conversationally Kimi is very nice, but it just stopped doing things for me. It could have been too context full, and did mention in one of my replies that my tools.md folder was getting bloated so that could have been why. GLM-5 has been fantastic for me tho since switching to it.

[dusty wraith]

Has anyone gotten gpt-5.4 thinking working via oauth?

[vital solar]

i have ollama/qwen3.5:latest running but it says run error: LLM request timed out.

:(((

[full lava]

Ok newest issue. Anyone successfully goten an agent to geenerate an image using OpenRouter models>? Gemini keeps asking for a Gemni API key (defeting the purpose of OpenRouter). I don't need to use Google. Any of the image models would work but I canot get the agent to get any of them to work. Anyone have success with this? Maybe a specific skill you installed?

[abstract atlas]

Im currently trying to start YouTube automation, shorts specifically with clawd on my macbook and im new to clawd bot could anyone give me any tips or anything that would help me

[umbral shuttle]

anyone successfully made openclaw run on wsl2 enviroment on window? I could made it answer my question, but its cannot do any long running task at all, just hallucinate. I guess openclaw is only powerful on mac OS only?

[azure cosmos]

I've used OpenRouter -> Kimi-k2.5 API to generate images. No special requests or setup. I added the API during the config setup and then simply asked the Agent to generate an image. It needs to be a model that can generate images.

I don't think the WebUI allows for images to be posted. I made a separate chat bot webui interface to allow images/files sent back and forth, otherwise it can send you the image via the channels (telegram)

[azure cosmos]

This may be an issue with model quality or the context. You need to generally start a new session after you're done with a request/item otherwise the entire sessions/context will be sent to the LLM which will degrade the output quality. Openclaw does have some automate compaction but it is still best to rest sessions.

[umbral shuttle]

I havent even have 1 session with it yet, as it cannot do any task yet, what ever prompt i throw in, it just out put very short and stop.

I think the wsl2 cannot maintain the flow.

[azure cosmos]

What LLM are you using?

[umbral shuttle]

gpt 5.3

codex

[azure cosmos]

The API?

[umbral shuttle]

no the sub oauth

[azure cosmos]

I wonder if you are getting rate limited. I've generally seen more issues with oauth then the API

wsl2 shouldn't be an issue, its just linux (works)

https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/troubleshooting

this openclaw logs --follow may give you some insights

[umbral shuttle]

i mean It not even do the thinking at all, only give a very short answer then stop, and it answer on gateway that it cannoot even see the tab on browser I turned on openclaw relay. mean while in the wsl2 enviroment I tried to ping it does appear some content of the page, its just not connect deliver those info to the gateway.

[azure cosmos]

Well, a short answer is still an answer. Are you saying it stops like mid sentence or its just giving a short answer and then doesn't expand (stops).

How it is being answered may be a reflection of your MD files (Agent, Identity, Soul, etc). These files can describe the 'behavior' of your agent.

[umbral shuttle]

by havent setup anything yet, it just default. but i have never seen AI give answer that short. like its hallucinate a short answer. and idk if it possible to connect wsl2 to gateway, this seem buggy. wsl2 see the web, but gateway chat isnt , even tho allconnection is healthy.

[azure cosmos]

It should have asked you when you first connected something like "Who am I?"

Check out these guides. They are exceptional. Some of it will be relevant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vte-fDoZczE - skip to 38:17 | Important Markdown Files (IDENTITY, USER, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnsrnsy_Lus - skip to 23:28 | ClawdBot Install & Setup

[valid marlin]

Hi there. I understand using AI and google to solve my issue is preferred, and I've been doing so for a very long while... so, humans... I'm a newbie. I've got openclaw installed on a PC. Discord connected. Mini-max as brain. I added the brave.com API - no apparent errors. But still, my bot can't do web searches. Says her search tools are broken. Next steps for troubleshooting? Thank you!

[dim harbor]

Check if you are in "messaging" mode. thats the default with latest version. Its basically just a chat until you change this setting. In Control UI, its under Agents - Tools - Tool Access. IF you are in messaging, ask openclaw how to configure the config file to fix this. the UI doesnt seem to allow making changes so you gotta edit the json

[azure cosmos]

What happens if you tell your agent explicitly to use your Brave API to do a test search.

[dim harbor]

Ask how to resolve it if theres a config value to change

[azure cosmos]

I always forget that for some of this stuff, just ask the Agent to resolve the issue. And to make sure to tell it to review the github for new release information or the github for issues if its struggling to resolve the internal item.

[valid marlin]

@azure cosmos FWIW I've asked the bot many times for help - she is struggling. 🙂 I asked her to do a brave api search, and she said, "Still not working — the search tool needs a guildId and it's not recognizing the Discord guild." she then asked me to run a CLI to test it myself.

@azure cosmos Also (this might help) when I open the canvas webpage, it says bridge: missing, and none of the 4 buttons work. Related?

[glacial fjord]

Anyone able to use Gemini 3.1 flash lite? I tried manually adding it google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview during onboarding but it didn't work for me.

[valid marlin]

I give up. I've uninstalled (again). Maybe I'll try again later, using a GitHub install. (I've been using the one liner from openclaw.io). Seems that one liner creates the .openclaw dir, but does not create the other needed openclaw dirs (for example, which contain package.json). Anyone else using the one liner install with success? Alright, finished! TY

[storm ember]

claude setup-token or claude is suddenly an invalid command?

[glacial fjord]

I have always used curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash to install and update OpenClaw

[rigid horizon]

So I setup the claw using curl, went through the wizard, configured my agent person, added Discord, left the house...

...only to find out that the agent in Discord is completely blank and knows nothing about anything I setup at my house. So basically useless.

Any suggestions how I can get it to configure things properly? I don't know when I can get to my house, so what can I do remotely to get it to work properly?

[valid marlin]

This is the powershell one liner from the website: iwr -useb https://openclaw.ai/install.ps1 | iex

[valid marlin]

One thing I have to do on my PC is do "openclaw gateway run"

[rigid horizon]

I have the gateway up and running

[valid marlin]

Ah good.

Then IDK... 🙁

best of luck - i'm fried for the day. 🙂

[glacial fjord]

Telegram was much simpler to setup/use.
With discord, only in direct message, agent had full context.

[umbral shuttle]

what other mode we have other than messaging, is it listed any where?

[rigid horizon]

Nope, even in direct messages it's still blank persona instead of the main TUi

[rigid horizon]

There are tons of tools you can (allegedly) setup to tailor for whatever goal you want.

[dim harbor]

Yeah coding or full is what you probably want if you want it to do everything. If you look in control ui you can see it .

[kindred totem]

Hello friends, I have just set up openclaw on my windows computer and connected it with a discord bot. I invited my discord bot to a private server I made and started talking with it in dms after I got everything running. The issue I'm running into is my discord bot doesn't have permissions that the main session would. This is what my config.yaml file looks like: ```id: "openclaw-discord"
name: "Finn"

gateway:
mode: local
allow_unconfigured: true

channels:
discord:
enabled: true
token: ""

hooks:
boot-md: true
command-logger: true
session-memory: true

skills:

• filesystem
• web
• python

tools:
sessions:
visibility: all```

[dim harbor]

Use #1459642797895319552 bro it will tell you how to fix it up, great for stuff like this

[kindred totem]

okay thanks

[sly rune]

hello everyone , need some tips on getting nullclaw(may be offtopic) to update the markdown files , im using it with qwen3.5 0.8b model

i have it setup with discord and its on a guild , sometimes it "thinks" aka typing but never responds , wondering if there was some user error along the way

[sinful verge]

are we supposed to just be ultra patient about gpt 5.4 not being usable yet (and future model releases)?

[mighty rampart]

I have created a second agent, I can see it in openclaw agents list . Is it possible to talk to the second agent in the Chat window in the gateway web ui?

[umbral shuttle]

guys , gemini web chat when I ask it to find tutorial video of openclaw on you tube , its trolled me and give link to meme music video on youtube . Holyshit im so done with google , they have been so dramatic about those opensource tool, banning everyone for using 3rd party and their model its self hallucinate + trolling answer all the type on their official platform. Its like selling abroken product but not allow user to fix it so its work. this is unacceptable I dont think google will last in this AI race for much longer, they do too manything at the same time .

[brittle bough]

This is odd, since the latest update I'm not seeing openclaw make any request to my litellm server. Has there been some security change that would block non-localhost requests or something?

[rancid vault]

i guess so..

[brittle bough]

Yeah, stopped litellm and run a simple web server on the same port and can verify openclaw isn't even attempting to make a connection 🙁

curl from openclaw machine works fine

[oak geyser]

I keep updating openclaw but I dont see the new gpt-5.4 model. Is it me or it's not posted yet?

[mighty rampart]

what do the logs say? I'm on 2026.3.2 and it is talking to both ollama locally and openrouter remotely.

[oak geyser]

🙁 -- weird how openai acquire openclaw but not keeping it updated

[mighty rampart]

what model provider are you using? I'm connected to openrouter and they have it. the models are not inside openclaw as far as I know...

[oak geyser]

openai/gpt* - gpt-5.4 isn't shown yet

not sure if I just haven't updated openclaw properly or something else. I did just run "openclaw update"

[upbeat kiln]

Anyone had openclaw just stop responding? It's gone dark on every session. Discord channels, various models, even the web interface just looks like it's responding, nothing is coming back.

This was working just fine and then boom, stopped answering really. restarted the gateway, no issues that I can see in the terminal, all appears well, except no responses.

[brittle bough]

Barely anything besides the timeout. Installed it from scratch on another machine and figured out the diff and it's back working.

[azure cosmos]

No response could be an issue with the LLM/API, https://docs.openclaw.ai/help/troubleshooting

[orchid wagon]

How to add several bots for channels.telegram config?

[jovial tinsel]

what command can i use on powershell to check if openclaw is installed

[lost herald]

Yeah, but it takes some manual intervention. Unless you are somewhat familiar with what you are doing, I would personally suggest waiting for the official release support(possibly this weekend). That way you don't create problems for yourself down the road.

[oak geyser]

yah i still dont see -5.4 available in the gpt model list for openclaw. guess this is still being worked?

[midnight cobalt]

hey guys does anyone know how the whatsapp integration works. When i tell him to send messages it throws me a error that says that it needs the JID . When im telling him to send a message to a person from my contact list it gives me this error : Delivering to WhatsApp requires target <E.164|group JID> So i can only speak with him and make him send messages in my private dm

[blazing pivot]

I'm new to openclaw and i was running gemini 3 flash, then i told the openclaw to add sonnet 4.6 as a model option, now it's giving "500 auth_unavailable: no auth available" error on prompts, how can i fix that?

[indigo nebula]

You don’t need to update your get it. Just ask your claw to add it manually itself.

[oak geyser]

lol now it forced set it to gpt-5.4-codex, and that model isn't available so openclaw isn't working ;0

[indigo nebula]

Just edit the openclaw.json and change the version for ChatGPT to what it was using before. Then restart your gateway. Once back online tell your openclaw you want to keep the current model as the default but add the new one as a fall back so you can toggle between models. I have three different models I switch between

[oak geyser]

so are you able to get -5.4 working? I can get it working on codex/app on windows. But not the openclaw on linux. It's kind of weird tbh.

[unreal bear]

What do I need to run for openclaw to run terminal without always approving ?

[indigo nebula]

Yep mine works fine. FYI make sure you backup your openclaw.json before you tell it to make changes. That way you can easily roll back if things break.

[oak geyser]

someone told me you can do this >>> Best way to make it autonomous is Crons and heartbeat

[sturdy mural]

Did something change with the browser control? in 2026.3.2? The chat is not allowing me to control the browser even though the status shows the tabs.
"openclaw browser --browser-profile openclaw tabs

🦞 OpenClaw 2026.3.2 (85377a2) — I'm like tmux: confusing at first, then suddenly you can't live without me.

│
◇

1. Example Domain
   https://example.com/
   id: B81D505E7DC478908272CC6DAF1E4A2C"

[oak geyser]

thanks, yah I updated openclaw but it still shows under "openclaw models list --all", that gpt-5.4 entry is not available yet.

[keen island]

anyone have a working setup using ollama and a local model that supports tool calling ? I have all these models that I've tried that supposedly support tools (and run fine directly when i ollama run MODELNAME from cli) but when i try to call them from openclaw i have various issues. The most frequent having the agent spit out json TELLING me what they will do but not actually doing it (web_search for example).

[full lava]

Yeah using Telegram. But it was a separate API Key for Kimi? Because Kimi is included in OpenRouter as well.

[azure cosmos]

Yes but I call Kimi-K2.5 specially out in the openclaw.json setup. I don't just use openrouter as the default.
"auth": {
"profiles": {
"openrouter:default": {
"provider": "openrouter",
"mode": "api_key"
}
}
},
"agents": {
"defaults": {
"model": {
"primary": "openrouter/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5",

[viral badge]

is there a tut on how to get it connected to my telegrwam

[flint ermine]

if you want it fully autonomous without approving every action, look into crons and heartbeat config. or if you don't want to deal with any of that setup, useclawy.com runs it in the cloud for you — already configured to run 24/7 autonomously for $9/mo

[oak geyser]

changed openclaw to be on the "dev" channel. Still no -5.4. So at this point I dunno what's going on

[maiden bramble]

Hey yall! How to i enable the file/execs tool for the main agent? I just finally got Clawbot working but it cant write down memories between chats

[violet stump]

/elevated full

[swift willow]

What LLM model you using ?

I have all my LLMs running locally now, no external APIs at all

Sharing compute resources from 3 separate systems

this is way more powerful than I expected

[thorny cobalt]

Yes — still "Tool not found". Tried: - exec "echo test" → Tool not found - read (any file) → Tool not found - exec "ls" → Tool not found Tools are completely broken. Only write worked briefly earlier, but now even that's questionable. I can't help you build or modify the dashboard until this is fixed — I can't read files, run commands, or even list what's in your workspace. You need to either: 1. Restart/reload my agent session 2. Check the OpenClaw tool registry configuration 3. Look at why exec and read aren't being recognized I can only do text chat right now — no file access, no command execution. CAN SOMEONE HELP PLEASE

[swift willow]

What model ?

[thorny cobalt]

kimi 2.5

[swift willow]

Local ?

[thorny cobalt]

no nvidia

im trying to fix this since 8h

[swift willow]

Local PC ?

[thorny cobalt]

vps

[swift willow]

oh ok

Try Qwen 3.5

I had tons of success with it

[thorny cobalt]

just change api to qwen?

from nvidia>

[swift willow]

also use Claude AI help you troubleshoot

[thorny cobalt]

im using opencode

[swift willow]

What are you using as the LLM server ?

[thorny cobalt]

i think

[swift willow]

using ollama?

[thorny cobalt]

nvidia-nim/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5

https://build.nvidia.com/moonshotai/kimi-k2.5/deploy

[swift willow]

try Qwen, make sure your model is set to coder

[thorny cobalt]

how do i connect qwen?

[swift willow]

Use ollama

[thorny cobalt]

should i just do the onboard again

whats ollama

[swift willow]

it’s a free server you setup for your LLMs

very good with resources

easy to setup and run

[thorny cobalt]

from nvidia?

[swift willow]

No it’s just free online

https://ollama.com/

[thorny cobalt]

https://ollama.com/

okey bet

[swift willow]

But get the cli version

just install it in console

[thorny cobalt]

instead of opencode? to fix my issues?

[swift willow]

then it’s “ollama pull Qwen3.5:latest”

open code I use that for my sub agent

Yeah I just checked it’s better use for sub agents

Setup your main agent with Qwen and ollama

then you can setup sub agents with open code

I made a paper on my setup might help you

Hang a sec

[thorny cobalt]

but do you think that will fix my error

i tried everything

[swift willow]

I had these errors yeah

At the start

took me ages to find a model that would understand what to do

[thorny cobalt]

did you have exact the same err>

[hollow thunder]

Hey guys, I just updated from git, and am now getting “device signature invalid” in the gateway web interface… is anyone else getting this issue too? Is it a bug in the latest code on git?

[thorny cobalt]

sent u a dm

[pliant wren]

OK, this is annoying - despite having disabled whatsapp via openclaw configure, after every gateway restrat, it just chooses to turn it back on and informs me:

• channels.whatsapp.groupPolicy is "allowlist" but groupAllowFrom (and allowFrom) is │
  │ empty — all group messages will be silently dropped. Add sender IDs to │
  │ channels.whatsapp.groupAllowFrom or channels.whatsapp.allowFrom, or set groupPolicy to │
  │ "open".

How do I complete eviscerate it, or at least prevent it from sending everyone who sends me a whatsapp message a request for a pairing code???

[zinc burrow]

I was having massive issues with WhatsApp too, so I gave up and moved to Telegram

[swift willow]

I used slack

[pliant wren]

Telegram will have more issues. Since I. oved top Discord, zero issues. On Telegram I used to have dropped messages, duplicates, strange formatting, etc.. On Discord, nothing... it just works.

[swift willow]

Discord worked well for me too

Slack is free so yeah

Maybe you need to clear you session so it doesn’t keep trying to pair your WhatsApp over and over again

[marble spindle]

hey, where is the most appropriate channel to ask config and tool questions?

[swift willow]

Here

[marble spindle]

thank you mr. horse.

[swift willow]

Neigh problem

[marble spindle]

Quite general question: good tools to share files between windows 11 and WSL2 with openclaw running on a remote machine.

[keen island]

What hardware are you running on? Ive been struggling getting a model with tools support to run on an 8GB gpu. I've had success with smaller models without tools support, but my main agent is still cloud based.

[swift willow]

I can send you my full setup just pm me

[oak geyser]

ok at this point I have no idea why gpt-5.4 is not showing up in openclaw. I've tried reseting oauth, and numerous other things. Even going ot openclaw "dev" channel. This is nutbar. My codex app on windows supports gpt-5.4 though. This shows openclaw doesn't have -5.4 available. no idea how others are getting it (openclaw models list --all --plain)

[swift willow]

It depends what your goals or projects are what do you want your agent to be able to do? For example I setup mine as a pen tester with all available toolsets

[marble spindle]

i set up a dedicated debian laptop i ssh into remotely. im on windows and WSL on my main workstation but want a simple way to send file to the remote machine. maybe a shared drive folder? but id like to avoid giving it OAuth credentials

[swift willow]

File sharing yeah I guess you could just use netcat

Or maybe ftp

[marble spindle]

netcat is interesting thanks for the tip! but id like something that doesnt require the terminal, that i can do from my phone away from my desk. maybe theres no way round giving it google access...

[unborn igloo]

https://shottr.cc/s/Opsx/SCR-20260307-vahp.png

[swift willow]

It’s a permissions issue I believe

from memory

[unborn igloo]

any idea where/how i'd fix this?

[swift willow]

What your host system?

[unborn igloo]

ubuntu vps

[oak geyser]

so annoyed with openai and this -5.4 rollout. I might just go with claude instead (or even gemini)

[swift willow]

Docker?

or no docker

Check the permissions on the workspace

ls -la ~/.openclaw/workspace/

The most likely cause is the workspace files are owned by the (host user) instead of node

The files are owned by claw with rw-rw-r-- permissions — that means the claw group can read and write, but others can only read.

[unborn igloo]

so how do i give the "node" permissions?

[swift willow]

Add OpenClaw’s user to the claw group

sudo usermod -aG claw <openclaw-username>

[unborn igloo]

stupid question, but who is that user? i wouldn't know what the openclaw-username is - don't think i ever set that, or maybe i did and didn't realize what it was/

[swift willow]

what user OpenClaw is running as on this system.

whoami
id

And what user is the OpenClaw process running as:

[vocal sapphire]

Hey guys. I use Openclaw currently with codex really for a single thing which is coding some software however codex isn’t great with UI/Ux stuff. What are you guys doing on that front? Is there a skill or a separate model I should hook up where I have the coding portion done by codex and let something else handle the UI portion for the web?

[swift willow]

ps aux | grep openclaw

[swift willow]

What is your inference specs? what size models can you run ?

[vocal sapphire]

Sorry, what do you mean?

[unborn igloo]

checked this and OpenClaw is running as claw, which owns all the workspace files with rw-rw-r-- permissions — so i don't think there's any user mismatch. any ideas?

btw - appreciate your help @swift willow - thank you 🙏

[swift willow]

What are your running your LLM on? Cloud or local ?

[mighty rampart]

How are you getting to Codex are you going to OpenAI directly? Probably the easiest thing is to sign up for OpenRouter and give them $10 for API credits and try out a bunch of models to see what you like. I have been debugging by having the dev agent write 'hello world' in different languages and have spent all of 25 cents today.

[swift willow]

If you have an ok system Mac M4 or a series 3 GTX card or higher you don’t need cloud to test models

[swift willow]

What happens when you edit and save the file manually?

[vocal sapphire]

Cloud

[vocal sapphire]

Yeah I use Oauth.

It’s great for the coding portion. And I made the original ui in Claude. However now that codex is editing and adjusting it, it could be better for sure lol

[mighty rampart]

I said easiest not cheapest. 😉 Sure you can run models locally but setting all that up is a project on top of the one you're already trying to get done.

[swift willow]

qwen3-coder-next was recommended to me

Large model though

[swift willow]

It’s not that hard really once you understand everything

Running the server is very easy

with ollama

Instead of api key you just use a dummy name like ollama-local

Then point it to the machines ip address

[unborn igloo]

yep no issues - persistent changes to the *.md file, also reflecting on the gateway dashboard with updates. just still can't "save"

[swift willow]

What openclaw version you on?

[unborn igloo]

OpenClaw 2026.3.2 (85377a2)

[swift willow]

Try this
openclaw config validate

If it returns any errors, fixing those might unlock the Save button.

[unborn igloo]

Config valid: ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

no errors

it doesn't seem to be just the MD files that i can't update from my dashboard - almost every page has "save" grayed out

[swift willow]

What conversational mode is your model set to?

messaging or coder ?

[tepid shoal]

Anyone know the fix to this?

"Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable: Command failed: systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gatewate.service"

[swift willow]

Actually that shouldn’t matter

[unborn igloo]

it's messaging

[tepid shoal]

"which openclaw" doesn't return anything 🙁

[swift willow]

I’ve seen this you’ve gotta register it in systemctl manually

[tepid shoal]

OK. How do I do that?

[swift willow]

What environment are you on?

[tepid shoal]

ubuntu

[swift willow]

I’m reading it could be a bug but I had this issue myself

can the agent write to other workspace files like IDENTITY.md or USER.md ?

Or is it just TOOLS.md

[swift willow]

Yeah I’m on Ubuntu too I had this issue once

[swift willow]

mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user

cat > ~/.config/systemd/user/openclaw-gateway.service << EOF
[Unit]
Description=OpenClaw Gateway
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=$(which node) $(realpath $(which openclaw)) gateway run --port 18789
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
KillMode=process
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/.openclaw

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
EOF

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable openclaw-gateway.service
systemctl --user start openclaw-gateway.service

Try running that

Creates the systemctl file and runs it

Then check it’s running:

systemctl --user status openclaw-gateway.service

[unborn igloo]

can't write to any of them.

can't click "save" anywhere within the (main) agents tab of the dashboard (overview, files, tools, skills, channels, cron jobs). anywhere there's a save option is grayed out.

[swift willow]

yeah I had this issue but I can't remember how I solved it

[unborn igloo]

hm - so what do you think - is there a way to get this flagged so it can be fixed? gonna be really difficult otherwise.

[swift willow]

hm just looking now mine are greyed out

I think it's a known bug atm

[unborn igloo]

😂

[swift willow]

can the agent save to the files that the important part

[unborn igloo]

i'm glad i'm not alone!

[swift willow]

you can always edit the files manually

[unborn igloo]

you mean through telegram or something like that? no, it cannot.

but i can write the files manually through SSH

[swift willow]

the important part is that the agent can read and write to the files

[unborn igloo]

"I have made zero persistent changes to the filesystem. I currently lack the write tool to update IDENTITY.md or USER.md directly."

[swift willow]

becuase that's its brain in a way

[unborn igloo]

this is why is tried to go and toggle on "read/write/edit" in the TOOLS section in the dashboard (but couldn't)

[swift willow]

and also that the agent can create files in your workspace

[unborn igloo]

yes agree it's important. but i can't do this right now at all because i can't toggle in the dashboard

[rustic eagle]

when do y'all consider MCP servers over just putting the API functionality for something in a skill.... each time I want to integrate something with my openclaw, I debate, but I have no real bsis for the debates :-p

[swift willow]

I'm not sure to be honest, you might want to consider rebuilding inside something like docker

that way the node has full access to the container

[unborn igloo]

oh wow, it would really suck if i had to do that.

[swift willow]

I can toggle my tools on and off

[tepid shoal]

realpath: missing operand

[unborn igloo]

think there's anyone else we can tag on this to see if it's a known bug (that might be fixed) or there's literally no fix?

[mighty rampart]

CLI > MCP -- if there is a command line interface for the thing I prefer that over an MCP server. Explaining how to make API calls in the skill is fine too. But I'd probably whip up a little CLI to wrap it if there isn't one already.

[mighty rampart]

The one time I prefer MCP is when the API is complicated and the creator of the MCP server has put thought into curating the concepts to be exposed.

[tepid shoal]

hey - which openclaw returns an address now
that's something 🙂

[swift willow]

what are you trying to toggle ?

[wanton helm]

Does anyone know where I can see my agen'ts heartbeat logs? I've configured it to use "session": "main" but I can't see the gateway's heartbeat messages in main's session chat 🤔

I can see in my openrouter usage that the agent is definitely making calls, but can't see them anywhere in the gateway or channels

[tepid shoal]

ExectStart=/usr/bin/node gateway run --port 18789 (code=excited) error

[unborn igloo]

AGENTS > MAIN > TOOLS > FILES > Read / Write / Edit --> ON

[wanton helm]

I had that problem as well, I saw there's an open github issue for it. I ended up having to set the tools.profile to full in the json config

[swift willow]

try
openclaw config set agents.defaults.tools.overrides.read true
openclaw config set agents.defaults.tools.overrides.write true
openclaw config set agents.defaults.tools.overrides.edit true

then restartsystemctl --user restart openclaw-gateway.service

tell me if the toggles are on

[swift willow]

yeah i think I'm seeing that too

[rustic eagle]

@mighty rampart - thanks for the reply .. so far I added MCP for connecting with some sqlite db setups I have because I am using them to communicate across agent and writing to files was not simple without bypassing restrictions ( commandline bash edits/etc. ) and I didn't want to just hack around sandboxes.... but now I'm integrating some external providers for certain research data where they have MCP services available and I was just torn... I figure probably some token efficiency with MCP ... and I was thinking the functions made available via MCP would be more easily discoverable.. but I know very little about MCP so it was all assumptions...

[unborn igloo]

i (temporarily) resolved this by changing the profile in openclaw.json from "messaging" to "full" and now at least my agent can write to MD files. but this hasn't resolved the issue in the dashboard or explained what's going on

[mighty rampart]

watch how many tools the MCP servers expose and turn off the ones you don't want. the list of tools and descriptions gets added to your context and it can be a lot if you have multiple MCP servers configured.

[swift willow]

oh ok, its a bug in the newest version I'm reading could be unreated to the issue I had

can you toggle those options now?

[unborn igloo]

nope, still can't save

but the agent can if i give it instructions - i just have no control myself over the dashboard

(which is very frustrating)

[swift willow]

oh so the agent can, thats good enough

yeah its a UI bug I'm reading

[unborn igloo]

well sorta - you can't really visualize all the various settings with the agent

[unborn igloo]

ok - any idea why it's affecting just my set up and not others?

[swift willow]

it's affecting me

[unborn igloo]

you can't save either?

[wanton helm]

Yeah I posted above saying I'm seeing it too

[unborn igloo]

oh crazy

ok, well, good, then i can breathe because it's not a ME problem at least

thanks @swift willow 💜

[wanton helm]

It probably just updates your json config, when your agent updates it you may be able to see it in there

[tepid shoal]

same, thank you @swift willow

[unborn igloo]

i do want to flag another bug - not sure if you know about it...

any time you go into the openclaw configure and run the models, if you select google, no matter which models you pick, once you save it ALWAYS defaults to gemini-pro as the primary model, even if you don't select it. the only way to override is to manually configure in openclaw.json and then never run configure again 😆

@swift willow ☝️

[rustic eagle]

thanks @mighty rampart - I'll operate under the premise that if it's straightforward - just put usage in the skill ... if it's complicated, consider MCP but don't do it blindly... it's hard knowing what should be a tool or a skill or just written wherever else :-p .. trying to do things in the best way ... I found out after a long while that skills are per-agent and not per openclaw instance, as a fun one that took me a while...

[unborn igloo]

yes, correct, i do see the updates my agent makes. but i don't actually really know what to tell the agent to do... at least seeing hte dashboard you can see what options you have

[wanton helm]

Could just look in the dashboard and then tell your agent what to change?

[unborn igloo]

you could

[zinc burrow]

hey! I noticed the docs changed and aren't suggesting VeniceAI as prominently as before. I'm having issues with it reading the ROLE.md and wondering if the problem is llama... anyone else having this issue?

Is the "Support Desk" legit? I'm being asked to create a ticket and send my wallet address and that seems sketchy

[swift willow]

no that was fake

[zinc burrow]

ok thanks

[swift willow]

he posted quick and del it, ignore it

[zinc burrow]

can we report this user?

[swift willow]

yeah go 4 it

[unborn igloo]

@swift willow just making sure you saw this

[rustic eagle]

Has anyone set up openrouter free models as primary with paid model fallback?

I have kimi subscription as my main model today - used for most things... I was considering leveraging free openrouter models as primary for some of my agents and work that has lower time sensitivity ... I have agents that are 2nd class agents ( i.e. I don't communicate directly with them ) for things like research as an example.. and some background analytical type work...

I was thinking of taking those agents, as well as some heartbeat/cron stuff, and setting up the models with free openrouter default models ( good ones like gpt or glm, etc.. depending on use-case ) and then having the kimi subscription as fallback...

Main goal here is to reduce reliance on kimi, which could exhaust usage mid-month, and the 1000 free requests from openrouter seemed like an interesting hedge, but I very much don't want to overengineer for minimal ROI with the risk that come with openrouter free models, like lag/etc...

[high heron]

Qwen, groq might be better ig

Or even Gemini cli

Or nvidia nim

[raven moon]

One message removed from a suspended account.

One message removed from a suspended account.

[zinc burrow]

https://docs.openclaw.ai/

[rustic eagle]

Are you just suggesting these models of GPT-oss or GLM-air? if so, I follow - there's other models that may be best ...
My question is much more about whether it's worth the effort to gain those 1000 free reqs to pare back some of the usage on my paid models....
Also considering a local 7b model or something for heardtbeat and some other things...

[high heron]

yea. Qwen also gives you 1000 req/day ig

[icy smelt]

Is Openclaw safe to run on my main production dedicated server?

[high heron]

and u can always use these models to do cron jobs...etc

[nova yew]

Better in docker

[icy smelt]

I did try to install it on Docker but which docker image should I use or should I build it from GitHub

And you mean by that it’s not safe?

[rustic eagle]

@high heron - yeah, lots of options, just trying to figure out if there are unseen problems with this... because it feels like a no-brainer to get the free reqs where you can load them in as primary for non-time-sensitive tasks until the free reqs run out and default back to paid ...
I appreciate the note about qwen - I'll. go check it out - but the same question would apply there .. about the ROI on the effort and if there are other concerns...

[nova yew]

He can delete all your data on the server if you give him permission.

[jovial oriole]

Does anyone have an easy to follow tailscale tutorial for connecting my agents?

One is on Mac mini the other is on Linux and I couldn’t get it to work on my first try

[storm loom]

I had a problem too.Turns out it was an old NordVPN profile that was causing the conflict

[icy smelt]

Does he delete data?

[storm loom]

Delete any old VPNs profiles and reinstall it

[nova yew]

He CAN do it, but it doesn't necessarily mean it will happen. He may do so by mistake, but after the latest updates, the probability has decreased.

[modest badger]

I am trying to identify a ollama model tha twill work with tooling and not having much luck, any suggestions?

[keen island]

@modest badger It was just suggested to me to try qwen3.5 tonight and so far so good! I feel your tools struggle.

[modest badger]

@keen island Thanks, just heard that through another channel as well, will give it a shot

[keen island]

I deleted the /v1 from the endpoint, and ollama api

It ran much better than with /v1 and openai-completions

[raven moon]

One message removed from a suspended account.

[swift willow]

Qwen 3.5

[analog venture]

downloading qwen3.5:9b right now. hopefully works

[bold viper]

Enter on terminal in the linux and config another port for the gateway to your server. If they both on 18729 they iverride they keys.

[analog venture]

how do i alter the context length of an LLM in ollama in linux?

[shy ether]

Best way I've used is to modify the systemctl daemon to force the context length to be whatever value you want.

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/ollama.service

The important line is the top most "Environment" line:

[Unit]
Description=Ollama Service
After=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ollama serve
User=ollama
Group=ollama
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
Environment="OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=128000"
Environment="OLLAMA_HOST=0.0.0.0:11434"
Environment="PATH=/usr/local/cuda-11.8/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/snap/bin"

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Then, run:

sudo systemctl restart ollama```

[analog venture]

thanks. ill dig into it. linux is so new to me.

[shy ether]

It's all good. 🙂 Everyone has to start somewhere.

[noble burrow]

hello everyone, hope you are doing good,

i am currently researching ways to link cursor and openclaw, does someone have any experience with that ? i'm currently digging mcp/acp links but would like to have user insights on this.

thanks

[analog venture]

i get this error when i finish the onboarding setup to start the server.

Error: systemctl is-enabled unavailable: Command failed: systemctl --user is-enabled openclaw-gateway.service

anyone got any ideas what to do

[hard turret]

Hey guys,
Simply want to add GPT 5.4 with the terminal.
OpenAI OAuth alreayd done.
What's the simple command to add 5.4?

[modest badger]

5.4 not showing in my oAuth yet.

[high heron]

same

[modest badger]

Have been trying all night, not showing up

[high heron]

prob because they only added openai/gpt-5.4

codex/gpt-5.4 doesnt exist

[hard turret]

The update is from 2 hours ago bois

Have u updated ?

[modest badger]

yes

[high heron]

wait. i dont even see openai/gpt-5.4 though

[supple verge]

Help me rectify error in this block I am specifing deny commands It says config error- commands: {
native: true,
nativeSkills: true,
text: true,
bash: true,
bashForegroundMs: 2000,
config: true,
debug: true,
restart: true,
useAccessGroups: true,
ownerDisplay: 'raw',
allowFrom: {
'': [
'',
],
},
"defaults": {
"denylist": [
{ "pattern": "rm -rf /", "reason": "Recursive delete of root" },
{ "pattern": "rm -rf ~", "reason": "Recursive delete of home" },
{ "pattern": "mkfs*", "reason": "Filesystem formatting" },
{ "pattern": "dd of=/dev/", "reason": "Raw disk write" },
{ "pattern": "chmod -R 777 /", "reason": "Recursive permission change" },
{ "pattern": "* | bash", "reason": "Piped script execution" },
{ "pattern": "* | sh", "reason": "Piped script execution" }
]
}
},

[shy ether]

If you're trying to run openclaw entirely within ssh, you'll get this error. You need to be running it through a desktop environment, over VNC or RDP, etc.

At least, that's my experience with it.

[analog venture]

im using a dedicated laptop with ubuntu desktop and remoting into it with no machine