OpenClaw February 1, 2026 OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that connects your messaging apps to local AI coding agents, all running on your own device.

OpenClaw

February 1, 2026

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that bridges your favorite messaging platforms to AI coding agents through a centralized gateway. It runs locally on your own devices, keeping your conversations and code private.

OpenClaw integrates with WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, iMessage, and other messaging services, allowing you to interact with AI coding agents from anywhere.

Get started

Start by installing OpenClaw

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

Windows

iwr -useb https://openclaw.ai/install.ps1 | iex

Running with Ollama

Once installed, you can launch OpenClaw directly with Ollama to connect local/cloud models:

ollama launch openclaw

If you want to configure OpenClaw without immediately starting the service:

ollama launch openclaw --config

The gateway will auto-reload if it’s already running.

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Recommended models

OpenClaw requires a larger context length to complete tasks. It is recommended to use a context length of at least 64k tokens.

Here are some models that work well with OpenClaw:

Ollama’s cloud models are available for free to start. Search for models on ollama.com.

Please see more models on ollama.com.

Example screen captures

Connecting to WhatsApp

Note

OpenClaw was previously known as Clawdbot and Moltbot. The clawdbot

command still works as an alias.