💻 root@openclaw-gateway:~$ openclaw --help

🦀 OpenClaw Agent CLI Cheatsheet ⚡

A practical OpenClaw command reference for managing gateways 🌐, agents 🤖, channels 📡, skills 🧩, hooks 🪝, models 🧠, browser automation 🌍, nodes 🖥️, and secure AI workflows 🔐.

$ mission 🎯

Use OpenClaw as an agent gateway for controlled local automation, messaging channels, browser control, model routing, and security-minded operations. Keep tokens in environment variables, review actions, and test safely. 🔐

🚀 Setup + Onboarding

Quick onboarding with daemon installopenclaw onboard --install-daemon

Setup workspace and configopenclaw setup --workspace ~/.openclaw/workspace

Interactive configurationopenclaw configure

Health checkopenclaw doctor

🌐 Gateway Management

Run gateway interactive modeopenclaw gateway

Run gateway on specific portopenclaw gateway --port 18789

Run gateway with Tailscaleopenclaw gateway --tailscale serve

Install gateway serviceopenclaw gateway install

Start gateway serviceopenclaw gateway start

Stop gateway serviceopenclaw gateway stop

Restart gateway serviceopenclaw gateway restart

Gateway statusopenclaw gateway status

OpenClaw statusopenclaw status

Deep status probeopenclaw status --deep

Health commandopenclaw health

🤖 Agent Management

List agentsopenclaw agents list

List agents with bindingsopenclaw agents list --bindings

Add agent interactivelyopenclaw agents add <name>

Add dev agent non-interactivelyopenclaw agents add dev --workspace ~/.openclaw/workspace-dev --model claude-sonnet-4.5 --non-interactive

Delete agentopenclaw agents delete <id>

Set identity from IDENTITY.mdopenclaw agents set-identity --agent main --from-identity

Set identity explicitlyopenclaw agents set-identity --agent main --name "MyAgent" --emoji "🤖" --avatar avatars/bot.png

🧩 Skills + Hooks

List skillsopenclaw skills list

List eligible skillsopenclaw skills list --eligible

List skills as JSONopenclaw skills list --json

Skill infoopenclaw skills info <skill-name>

Check skill eligibilityopenclaw skills check

List hooksopenclaw hooks list

List eligible hooksopenclaw hooks list --eligible

Verbose hook infoopenclaw hooks list --verbose

Enable hookopenclaw hooks enable session-memory

Disable hookopenclaw hooks disable command-logger

Install hooks from npmopenclaw hooks install @openclaw/my-hooks

Install local hooksopenclaw hooks install ./my-hooks

Update all hooksopenclaw hooks update --all

📡 Channels + Messaging

List channelsopenclaw channels list

Channel statusopenclaw channels status

Probe channel statusopenclaw channels status --probe

Add channel interactivelyopenclaw channels add

Add Telegram channelopenclaw channels add --channel telegram --account alerts --name "Alerts Bot" --token $TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN

Add Discord channelopenclaw channels add --channel discord --account work --token $DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN

Remove Telegram channelopenclaw channels remove --channel telegram --account alerts

Channel logsopenclaw channels logs

Send messageopenclaw message send --target +15555550123 --message "Hello from OpenClaw"

Read messagesopenclaw message read --target +15555550123

Delete messageopenclaw message delete --target <id>

🧠 Models + Authentication

Model statusopenclaw models status

Live model probeopenclaw models status --probe

Probe specific provideropenclaw models status --probe-provider anthropic

List modelsopenclaw models list

List all modelsopenclaw models list --all

List provider modelsopenclaw models list --provider anthropic

Set default modelopenclaw models set claude-sonnet-4.5

Set image modelopenclaw models set-image claude-sonnet-4.5

Anthropic token setupclaude setup-token

OpenClaw token setupopenclaw models auth setup-token --provider anthropic

Paste provider tokenopenclaw models auth paste-token --provider anthropic

List fallbacksopenclaw models fallbacks list

Add fallback modelopenclaw models fallbacks add claude-opus-4.6

Scan for modelsopenclaw models scan

Scan and set defaultopenclaw models scan --set-default

🌍 Browser Control

Browser statusopenclaw browser status

Start browseropenclaw browser start

Stop browseropenclaw browser stop

List tabsopenclaw browser tabs

Open URLopenclaw browser open https://example.com

Navigate target tabopenclaw browser navigate https://example.com --target-id <id>

Click selectoropenclaw browser click "#submit-button"

Type into selectoropenclaw browser type "#email" "user@example.com"

Press keyopenclaw browser press Enter

Screenshotopenclaw browser screenshot

Full page screenshotopenclaw browser screenshot --full-page

AI snapshotopenclaw browser snapshot --format ai

🖥️ Nodes + Devices

List nodesopenclaw nodes list

Connected node statusopenclaw nodes status --connected

Describe nodeopenclaw nodes describe --node <id>

Run command on nodeopenclaw nodes run --node <id> --cwd /path -- ls -la

Notify macOS nodeopenclaw nodes notify --node <id> --title "Build Complete" --body "Success" --sound default

List node camerasopenclaw nodes camera list --node <id>

Camera snapshotopenclaw nodes camera snap --node <id> --facing front

Camera clipopenclaw nodes camera clip --node <id> --duration 10s

Canvas snapshotopenclaw nodes canvas snapshot --node <id>

Present canvasopenclaw nodes canvas present --node <id> --target index.html

Record screenopenclaw nodes screen record --node <id> --duration 30s

🔐 Safety + Verification

Check status before changesopenclaw status --deep

Review repo diffgit diff

Check git statusgit status

Avoid hardcoded tokensenv | grep -i token

Use env vars for bot tokensexport TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<token>

Validate site buildnpm run build

🧠 Ryan’s Recommended Workflow

Run OpenClaw inside TMUX 🐧, keep gateway logs visible 📡, isolate workspaces per agent 📂, use environment variables for channel tokens 🔐, and validate every generated change with git diff + npm run build before deploying ⚡.