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openclaw — A personal AI assistant that you run on your own devices. Some subcommands such as `onboard`, `agent

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Problem

How to use the openclaw command: A personal AI assistant that you run on your own devices. Some subcommands such as onboard, agent, doctor, etc. have their own usage documentation. See also: zeroclaw. More information: <https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli>.

Solution

openclaw — A personal AI assistant that you run on your own devices. Some subcommands such as onboard, agent, doctor, etc. have their own usage documentation. See also: zeroclaw. More information: <https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli>.

Run the onboarding wizard to set up the gateway and channels:

openclaw onboard --install-daemon

Start the gateway server:

openclaw gateway --allow-unconfigured --port {{18789}} --verbose

Send a message to a contact:

openclaw message send {{[-t|--target]}} {{+1234567890}} {{[-m|--message]}} "{{Hello}}"

Talk to the assistant with a single message:

openclaw agent {{[-m|--message]}} "{{Ship checklist}}"

Start interactive chat mode:

openclaw agent

Run diagnostics and check system health:

openclaw doctor

Update OpenClaw to the latest version:

openclaw update

List configured channels:

openclaw channels list

Code Snippets

Run the onboarding wizard to set up the gateway and channels

openclaw onboard --install-daemon

Start the gateway server

openclaw gateway --allow-unconfigured --port {{18789}} --verbose

Send a message to a contact

openclaw message send {{[-t|--target]}} {{+1234567890}} {{[-m|--message]}} "{{Hello}}"

Talk to the assistant with a single message

openclaw agent {{[-m|--message]}} "{{Ship checklist}}"

Start interactive chat mode

openclaw agent

Context

tldr-pages: common/openclaw

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