---
title: OpenClaw
---

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that runs on your own devices. It bridges messaging services (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage, and more) to AI coding agents through a centralized gateway.

## Install

Install [OpenClaw](https://openclaw.ai/) 

```bash
npm install -g openclaw@latest
```

Then run the onboarding wizard:

```bash
openclaw onboard --install-daemon
```

<Note>OpenClaw requires a larger context window. It is recommended to use a context window of at least 64k tokens. See [Context length](/context-length) for more information.</Note>

## Usage with Ollama

### Quick setup

```bash
ollama launch openclaw
```

<Note>Previously known as Clawdbot. `ollama launch clawdbot` still works as an alias.</Note>

This configures OpenClaw to use Ollama and starts the gateway.
If the gateway is already running, no changes need to be made as the gateway will auto-reload the changes. 


To configure without launching:

```shell
ollama launch openclaw --config
```

## Recommended Models

- `qwen3-coder`
- `glm-4.7`
- `gpt-oss:20b`
- `gpt-oss:120b`

Cloud models are also available at [ollama.com/search?c=cloud](https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud).