Quickstart
Five minutes from zero to a running agent swarm on your machine.
1 — Install
Pick your platform. Each installer bundles the sidecar + UI and auto-installs OpenClaw on first launch.
- macOS: AgentiqFlow.dmg (Apple Silicon + Intel)
- Windows: AgentiqFlow-setup.exe
- Linux: AgentiqFlow.AppImage (x86_64)
- From source: see Install
Need Node 20+ already on your PATH if running from source.
The installer does the rest.
2 — First launch
Open the app. The sidecar binds to :8858 and the UI loads
in your default browser at http://localhost:8858.
Onboarding walks four steps: create a local account (email + password, stored on your machine), paste your license key (skip for free Personal tier), accept the terms, then pick a provider. Paid keys arrive by email within seconds of Stripe checkout — check spam if it's missing after a minute.
Recommended provider starters:
- Anthropic — strongest reasoning, runs the Director by default
- OpenAI — broad model selection, low-latency 4o
- Ollama (local) — zero-cost, private, requires a local model pulled
Keys live in your local Vault — mirrored to data/secrets.env
on disk, never sent to AgentiqFlow Labs.
3 — Talk to the Director
Open the Chat page. The default conversation routes through the Director, which decomposes goals and dispatches to any of 110 specialists — coder, researcher, writer, reviewer, sales, ops, designer, voice, and dozens more.
Try:
Find the three highest-traffic pages on apple.com and write a brief summary of what each one is selling.
Watch the Swarm tab — you'll see the Director hand the research task to the Researcher agent, then to the Writer for the summary.
4 — Wire up a channel
Let your agents reach you outside the browser. Open Messaging:
- Discord — paste a bot token, pick an agent, done
- Telegram — paste a BotFather token (no public URL needed)
- SMTP+IMAP — email with any provider
- iMessage (macOS only) — read chat.db, reply via AppleScript
5 — Schedule something
Open Cron. Add a job:
# Every weekday at 8am, brief me on overnight news
0 8 * * 1-5 → Researcher → "Brief me on overnight news in AI + markets" The output flows to whichever channel(s) you've connected. Output is stored in the agent's memory so follow-up questions know the context.
You're running
From here:
- Swarm page in-app — browse all 110 agents, filter by tag, jump straight to a chat
- Agent catalog — full reference of every agent, grouped by category
- Vault — add more provider keys, MCP server tokens, OAuth credentials
- Workflows — visual multi-agent pipelines triggered by webhook, cron, or chat
- Backup & Restore — single
.json.gzbundle of every byte of state - Settings → License — manage your subscription, billing, and bound devices
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