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CLI reference for `openclaw configure` (interactive configuration prompts)	You want to tweak credentials, devices, or agent defaults interactively	Configure

openclaw configure

Interactive prompts for targeted changes to an existing setup: credentials, devices, agent defaults, gateway, channels, plugins, skills, and health checks.

Use openclaw onboard or openclaw setup for the full guided first-run journey, openclaw setup --baseline for the baseline config/workspace only, and openclaw channels add when you only need channel account setup.

`openclaw config` with no subcommand opens the same wizard. Use `openclaw config get|set|unset` for non-interactive edits.

Options

--section <section>: repeatable section filter. Available sections:

workspace, model, web, gateway, daemon, channels, plugins, skills, health

openclaw configure
openclaw configure --section web
openclaw configure --section model --section channels
openclaw configure --section gateway --section daemon

Selecting gateway, daemon, or health (or running the full wizard with no --section) prompts where the Gateway runs and updates gateway.mode. Section filters that skip all three go straight to the requested setup with no gateway-mode prompt. Picking remote gateway mode writes the remote config and exits immediately; it does not run local-only steps like plugin installs.

`openclaw configure` requires an interactive terminal (both stdin and stdout must be TTYs). Without one it prints the equivalent non-interactive `openclaw config get|set|patch|validate` commands and exits with an error instead of partially running.

Model section

**Model** includes a multi-select for the `agents.defaults.models` allowlist (what shows up in `/model` and the model picker). Provider-scoped setup choices merge their selected models into the existing allowlist instead of replacing unrelated providers already in the config.

Re-running provider auth from configure preserves an existing agents.defaults.model.primary, even when the provider's auth step returns a config patch with its own recommended default model. Adding or reauthing a provider makes its models available without taking over your current primary model. Use openclaw models auth login --provider <id> --set-default or openclaw models set <model> to intentionally change the default model.

When configure starts from a provider auth choice, the default-model and allowlist pickers prefer that provider automatically. For paired providers such as Volcengine and BytePlus, the same preference also matches their coding-plan variants (volcengine-plan/*, byteplus-plan/*). If the preferred-provider filter would produce an empty list, configure falls back to the unfiltered catalog instead of showing a blank picker.

Web section

openclaw configure --section web picks a web-search provider and configures its credentials. Some providers show provider-specific follow-ups:

• Grok can offer optional x_search setup with the same xAI OAuth profile or API key, and let you pick an x_search model.
• Kimi can ask for the Moonshot API region (api.moonshot.ai vs api.moonshot.cn) and the default Kimi web-search model.

Other notes

• After local config writes, configure installs selected downloadable plugins when the chosen setup path requires them. Remote gateway config does not install local plugin packages.
• Channel-oriented services (Slack/Discord/Matrix/Microsoft Teams) prompt for channel/room allowlists during setup. You can enter names or IDs; the wizard resolves names to IDs when possible.
• If you run the daemon install step, token auth requires a token. If gateway.auth.token is SecretRef-managed, configure validates the SecretRef but does not persist resolved plaintext token values into supervisor service environment metadata; if the SecretRef is unresolved, configure blocks daemon install with actionable remediation guidance.
• If both gateway.auth.token and gateway.auth.password are configured and gateway.auth.mode is unset, configure blocks daemon install until you set the mode explicitly.

Related

• CLI reference
• Configuration
• Config CLI: Config