Can't start subagents "gateway not active"

[dusty rune]

Everytime I want my agent to start some subagent i get this message:
"Der Gateway ist gerade nicht aktiv – deswegen können die Sub-Agents nicht starten. Ich muss erst den Gateway daemon starten:"

What can i do?

[clear prawn]

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[lament gorge]

That message means the Gateway process (daemon/service) isn’t running, and sub-agents are spawned by the Gateway, so they can’t start until it’s up.

Please paste the output of these (and also openclaw --version):

openclaw --version
openclaw status
openclaw gateway status

Typical fix if it’s installed as a service:

openclaw gateway start

If you didn’t install the daemon yet (common), the easiest is to run the onboarding wizard with daemon install: