# Source: https://docs.ollama.com/integrations/openclaw.md

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# 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  theme={"system"}
npm install -g openclaw@latest
```

Then run the onboarding wizard:

```bash  theme={"system"}
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  theme={"system"}
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  theme={"system"}
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).