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jolly horizon Jan 28, 2026, 9:57 PM

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Hello Krill i need help with a fresh installation what is the best model to use to minimize token usage or LLM token input length would you recommend haiku?

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jolly horizon Jan 28, 2026, 9:58 PM

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Hello Krill i need help with a fresh installation what is the best model to use to minimize token usage or LLM token input length would you recommend haiku?

pearl runeBOT Jan 28, 2026, 10:03 PM

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jolly horizon Hello Krill i need help with a fresh installation what is the best model to use ...

Hey! Great question. 🦐

For minimizing token usage, yes — Claude 3.5 Haiku (anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku-latest) is a solid budget choice. It's fast, cheap, and handles most tasks well.

But honestly, for the best current recommendations, I'd point you to:

Models docs: https://docs.clawd.bot/concepts/models
#models channel — the community has real-time experience with what's working well

A few notes:

If you're cost-conscious, consider using fallbacks — set a cheaper model as primary, with a more capable one as fallback
Run clawdbot onboard during setup — it'll walk you through model + auth config
You can always switch models later with /model in chat

What provider are you planning to use? (Anthropic direct, OpenRouter, etc?) That might help narrow it down! 🦐

jolly horizon Jan 29, 2026, 2:46 AM

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Okay things got resetup and are on haiku but it just ddoesnt seem to be as stable whenever i am in the web console and i type a message after the switch there is no response

pearl runeBOT Jan 29, 2026, 2:47 AM

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jolly horizon Okay things got resetup and are on haiku but it just ddoesnt seem to be as stabl...

Hmm, that sounds like something's not connecting properly. Let's troubleshoot! 🦐

First, can you run these and share the output?

clawdbot --version
clawdbot models status

Then check your logs for errors:

clawdbot gateway logs --tail 50

Common causes for "no response":

"Model is not allowed" — if you have an allowlist in agents.defaults.models, Haiku needs to be in it

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Auth issue — API key might not be set up for Anthropic
Model ref typo — should be anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku-latest

The logs will tell us what's actually happening when you send a message. Share what you see and we'll figure it out! 🦐

jolly horizon Jan 29, 2026, 2:49 AM

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version is 2026.1.24-3
MODEL STATUS: 🦞 Clawdbot 2026.1.24-3 (885167d) — I'm the assistant your terminal demanded, not the one your sleep schedule requested.

Config : C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\clawdbot.json
Agent dir : C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\agents\main\agent
Default : anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku-latest
Fallbacks (1) :
Image model : -
Image fallbacks (0): -
Aliases (0) : -
Configured models (1): anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku-latest

Auth overview
Auth store : C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\agents\main\agent\auth-profiles.json
Shell env : off
Providers w/ OAuth/tokens (0): -

anthropic effective=profiles:C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\agents\main\agent\auth-profiles.json | profiles=1 (oauth=0, token=0, api_key=1) | anthropic:default=sk-ant-a...Pci9nAAA

OAuth/token status

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version is 2026.1.24-3
MODEL STATUS: Clawdbot 2026.1.24-3 (885167d) — I'm the assistant your terminal demanded, not the one your sleep schedule requested.

Config : C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\clawdbot.json
Agent dir : C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\agents\main\agent
Default : anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku-latest
Fallbacks (1) :
Image model : -
Image fallbacks (0): -
Aliases (0) : -
Configured models (1): anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku-latest

Auth overview
Auth store : C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\agents\main\agent\auth-profiles.json
Shell env : off
Providers w/ OAuth/tokens (0): -
anthropic effective=profiles:C:\Users\Keat.clawdbot\agents\main\agent\auth-profiles.json | profiles=1 (oauth=0, token=0, api_key=1) | anthropic:default=sk-ant-a...Pci9nAAA,

OAuth/token status

pearl runeBOT Jan 29, 2026, 2:52 AM

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jolly horizon version is 2026.1.24-3 MODEL STATUS: Clawdbot 2026.1.24-3 (885167d) — I'm the a...

Config looks good! Model is set, API key is there. 👍

Now let's see what's actually happening when you send a message. Can you share the gateway logs?

clawdbot gateway logs --tail 50

Send a test message in the web console first, then grab the logs right after — that way we'll see the error (if any).

Also quick check — when you say "no response," does the web console show any loading indicator, or does it just... nothing? 🦐

jolly horizon Jan 29, 2026, 2:54 AM

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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> clawdbot gateway logs --tail 50
error: unknown option '--tail'

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PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> clawdbot gateway logs --tail 50
error: unknown option '--tail'

pearl runeBOT Jan 29, 2026, 2:56 AM

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jolly horizon PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> clawdbot gateway logs --tail 50 error: unknown option '-...

Oops, my bad! Try this instead:

clawdbot gateway logs

Or check the log file directly — on Windows it's usually at:

C:\Users\Keat\.clawdbot\logs\gateway.log

You can open that in notepad or run:

type C:\Users\Keat\.clawdbot\logs\gateway.log

(Just the last chunk is fine — look for errors near the bottom after you send a test message) 🦐

jolly horizon Jan 29, 2026, 3:04 AM

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i think i found it in a differently names file but does this look correct:

{"type":"message","id":"6fb73797","parentId":"203b1fb4","timestamp":"2026-01-29T02:34:08.936Z","message":{"role":"assistant","content":[],"api":"anthropic-messages","provider":"anthropic","model":"claude-3-5-haiku-latest","usage":{"input":0,"output":0,"cacheRead":0,"cacheWrite":0,"totalTokens":0,"cost":{"input":0,"output":0,"cacheRead":0,"cacheWrite":0,"total":0}},"stopReason":"error","timestamp":1769654048686,"errorMessage":"404 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"not_found_error","message":"model: claude-3-5-haiku-latest"},"request_id":"req_011CXatTrKHr1CYPG5iBCYCK"}"}}

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i think i found it in a differently names file but does this look correct:

{"type":"message","id":"6fb73797","parentId":"203b1fb4","timestamp":"2026-01-29T02:34:08.936Z","message":{"role":"assistant","content":[],"api":"anthropic-messages","provider":"anthropic","model":"claude-3-5-haiku-latest","usage":{"input":0,"output":0,"cacheRead":0,"cacheWrite":0,"totalTokens":0,"cost":{"input":0,"output":0,"cacheRead":0,"cacheWrite":0,"total":0}},"stopReason":"error","timestamp":1769654048686,"errorMessage":"404 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"not_found_error","message":"model: claude-3-5-haiku-latest"},"request_id":"req_011CXatTrKHr1CYPG5iBCYCK"}"}}

jolly horizon Jan 29, 2026, 3:54 AM

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what does this mean:

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closed before connect conn=c07b64fd-18b2-4858-bb33-81f526379b30 remote=127.0.0.1 fwd=n/a origin=http://127.0.0.1:18789 host=127.0.0.1:18789 ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 code=1008 reason=unauthorized: gateway token mismatch (open a tokenized dashboard URL or paste token in Control UI settings)

pearl runeBOT Jan 29, 2026, 3:56 AM

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jolly horizon what does this mean:

Looks like the message got cut off! Can you paste what you're seeing? 🦐

jolly horizon Jan 29, 2026, 3:57 AM

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closed before connect conn=c07b64fd-18b2-4858-bb33-81f526379b30 remote=127.0.0.1 fwd=n/a origin=http://127.0.0.1:18789 host=127.0.0.1:18789 ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 code=1008 reason=unauthorized: gateway token mismatch (open a tokenized dashboard URL or paste token in Control UI settings)

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