💻 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 install openclaw onboard --install-daemon

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

Interactive configuration openclaw configure

Health check openclaw doctor

🌐 Gateway Management

Run gateway interactive mode openclaw gateway

Run gateway on specific port openclaw gateway --port 18789

Run gateway with Tailscale openclaw gateway --tailscale serve

Install gateway service openclaw gateway install

Start gateway service openclaw gateway start

Stop gateway service openclaw gateway stop

Restart gateway service openclaw gateway restart

Gateway status openclaw gateway status

OpenClaw status openclaw status

Deep status probe openclaw status --deep

Health command openclaw health

🤖 Agent Management

List agents openclaw agents list

List agents with bindings openclaw agents list --bindings

Add agent interactively openclaw agents add <name>

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

Delete agent openclaw agents delete <id>

Set identity from IDENTITY.md openclaw agents set-identity --agent main --from-identity

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

🧩 Skills + Hooks

List skills openclaw skills list

List eligible skills openclaw skills list --eligible

List skills as JSON openclaw skills list --json

Skill info openclaw skills info <skill-name>

Check skill eligibility openclaw skills check

List hooks openclaw hooks list

List eligible hooks openclaw hooks list --eligible

Verbose hook info openclaw hooks list --verbose

Enable hook openclaw hooks enable session-memory

Disable hook openclaw hooks disable command-logger

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

Install local hooks openclaw hooks install ./my-hooks

Update all hooks openclaw hooks update --all

📡 Channels + Messaging

List channels openclaw channels list

Channel status openclaw channels status

Probe channel status openclaw channels status --probe

Add channel interactively openclaw channels add

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

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

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

Channel logs openclaw channels logs

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

Read messages openclaw message read --target +15555550123

Delete message openclaw message delete --target <id>

🧠 Models + Authentication

Model status openclaw models status

Live model probe openclaw models status --probe

Probe specific provider openclaw models status --probe-provider anthropic

List models openclaw models list

List all models openclaw models list --all

List provider models openclaw models list --provider anthropic

Set default model openclaw models set claude-sonnet-4.5

Set image model openclaw models set-image claude-sonnet-4.5

Anthropic token setup claude setup-token

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

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

List fallbacks openclaw models fallbacks list

Add fallback model openclaw models fallbacks add claude-opus-4.6

Scan for models openclaw models scan

Scan and set default openclaw models scan --set-default

🌍 Browser Control

Browser status openclaw browser status

Start browser openclaw browser start

Stop browser openclaw browser stop

List tabs openclaw browser tabs

Open URL openclaw browser open https://example.com

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

Click selector openclaw browser click "#submit-button"

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

Press key openclaw browser press Enter

Screenshot openclaw browser screenshot

Full page screenshot openclaw browser screenshot --full-page

AI snapshot openclaw browser snapshot --format ai

🖥️ Nodes + Devices

List nodes openclaw nodes list

Connected node status openclaw nodes status --connected

Describe node openclaw nodes describe --node <id>

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

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

List node cameras openclaw nodes camera list --node <id>

Camera snapshot openclaw nodes camera snap --node <id> --facing front

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

Canvas snapshot openclaw nodes canvas snapshot --node <id>

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

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

🔐 Safety + Verification

Check status before changes openclaw status --deep

Review repo diff git diff

Check git status git status

Avoid hardcoded tokens env | grep -i token

Use env vars for bot tokens export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=<token>

Validate site build npm 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 ⚡.