openclaw onboard

Interactive onboarding wizard (local or remote Gateway setup).

Related guides

• CLI onboarding hub: Onboarding Wizard (CLI)
• Onboarding overview: Onboarding Overview
• CLI onboarding reference: CLI Onboarding Reference
• CLI automation: CLI Automation
• macOS onboarding: Onboarding (macOS App)

Examples

openclaw onboard
openclaw onboard --flow quickstart
openclaw onboard --flow manual
openclaw onboard --mode remote --remote-url ws://gateway-host:18789

Non-interactive custom provider:

openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
  --auth-choice custom-api-key \
  --custom-base-url "https://llm.example.com/v1" \
  --custom-model-id "foo-large" \
  --custom-api-key "$CUSTOM_API_KEY" \
  --custom-compatibility openai

--custom-api-key is optional in non-interactive mode. If omitted, onboarding checks CUSTOM_API_KEY.

Non-interactive Z.AI endpoint choices:

# Promptless endpoint selection
openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
  --auth-choice zai-coding-global \
  --zai-api-key "$ZAI_API_KEY"

# Other Z.AI endpoint choices:
# --auth-choice zai-coding-cn
# --auth-choice zai-global
# --auth-choice zai-cn

Flow notes:

• quickstart: minimal prompts, auto-generates a gateway token.
• manual: full prompts for port/bind/auth (alias of advanced).
• Fastest first chat: openclaw dashboard (Control UI, no channel setup).
• Custom Provider: connect any OpenAI or Anthropic compatible endpoint, including hosted providers not listed. Use Unknown to auto-detect.

Common follow-up commands

openclaw configure
openclaw agents add <name>

INFO

--json does not imply non-interactive mode. Use --non-interactive for scripts.