[ Getting started ]

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.

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.gz bundle of every byte of state
  • Settings → License — manage your subscription, billing, and bound devices

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