OpenClaw tutorial

Official: Getting started, Install.

Need Node 22.22.3+, 24.15+, or 25.9+ (Node 26 recommended) and a provider API key.

bash

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

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

If you already manage Node:

bash

npm install -g openclaw@latest --allow-scripts=openclaw

npm 11.15 and earlier: omit --allow-scripts=openclaw.

bash

openclaw gateway status   # listening on 18789
openclaw dashboard

Fastest phone channel in the official guide: Telegram. Other channels: official Channels docs. Chinese Feishu/WeChat pages: /zh/products/openclaw/.

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