OpenClaw · Ollama Blog

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.

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:

Model	Description
qwen3-coder	Optimized for coding tasks
glm-4.7	Strong general-purpose model
glm-4.7-flash	Balanced performance and speed
gpt-oss:20b	Balanced performance and speed
gpt-oss:120b	Improved capability

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

Model	Description
kimi-k2.5	Powerful 1T parameter model for agentic tasks
minimax-m2.1	Excellent multilingual capabilities
glm-4.7	Strong general-purpose model
gpt-oss:20b	Balanced performance and speed
gpt-oss:120b	Improved capability

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.