Set up the gateway with the onboarding wizard
getting started
// what it does
openclaw onboard walks you through model auth, the gateway, your workspace, channels, and skills, then a health check — the recommended first-run path. Adding --install-daemon also registers the gateway as a background user service (launchd/systemd) so it survives reboots. openclaw configure reopens the guided config wizard later.
// shell
$ openclaw onboard --install-daemon$ openclaw configure// gotcha
Without --install-daemon the gateway only runs while a foreground process is up; onboarding alone does not make it persistent across logout or reboot.