Hello guys! Can someone help? I dont know whatahell is this, but I think this appeared after some of the updates. I just wanted to add new provider, but openclaw provider and openclaw onboarding CLI is not working somehow. Error:"[openclaw] Failed to start CLI: Error: The openclaw onboarding command is unavailable because plugins.allow excludes "onboarding". Add "onboarding" to plugins.allow if you want that bundled plugin CLI surface." I tried to add to plugins.allow, but then it argues about non existent plugins such as onboarding and provider.
#Failed to start CLI: Error: The openclaw onboarding command is unavailable because plugins.allow
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First, can you paste:
openclaw --version
Likely issue: plugins.allow takes plugin IDs, not command names. onboarding and provider are not plugin IDs, so adding them will produce “non existent plugin” warnings.
Use:
openclaw onboard
not openclaw onboarding.
To recover, try:
openclaw doctor --fix
openclaw config validate
If you don’t intentionally need a restrictive plugin allowlist, simplest fix is:
openclaw config unset plugins.allow
Then restart:
openclaw gateway restart
For adding providers, use openclaw onboard, openclaw configure --section model, or provider auth commands like:
openclaw models auth add
Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli/onboard and https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/model-providers