OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant that connects to messaging channels such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Feishu/Lark, and acts on your behalf through an agent loop. It supports custom OpenAI-compatible providers, so you can point it to the ScitiX Model Inference API. OpenClaw requires Node.js 22.22.3+, 24.15+, or 25.9+. A newer LTS version is recommended. Installing with an unsupported Node version may silently pull an older placeholder release.

Configure

1. Install OpenClaw

Check your Node version first:

node -v

If it is below the requirement, upgrade Node. The official download page covers every platform and method.

brew install node@24

winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS

nvm install 24 && nvm use 24
nvm alias default 24

With nvm, set a default alias. Without it, new terminals may fall back to the old Node version and npm-installed commands can disappear from PATH.

Install OpenClaw:

npm install -g openclaw@latest
openclaw onboard --install-daemon

2. Complete onboarding

openclaw onboard walks you through an interactive setup wizard. Answer the prompts as follows:

“I understand this is personal-by-default…”: select Yes.
Setup mode: select QuickStart (recommended). The defaults it applies, including Gateway port 18789, loopback bind, token auth, and Tailscale off, are fine for connecting to ScitiX.
Model/auth provider: select Skip for now. The providers listed here, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, are sign-in flows for those companies’ official services. Picking OpenAI would point OpenClaw at api.openai.com, not at ScitiX. ScitiX is added as a custom provider in the config file.

OpenClaw onboard — select "Skip for now" at the Model/auth provider step

Default model: select Keep current. Do not enter the ScitiX model here because the provider has no credentials yet. The config file below sets agents.defaults.model.primary to the ScitiX model.
Everything after that, such as Web search and Chat channels: select Skip for now. These agent extras are independent of the model provider and can be configured later with openclaw configure.

When the wizard finishes, it opens the OpenClaw chat TUI. Messages will fail with a model error until the provider is configured. That is expected. Exit by typing /exit; Ctrl+C does not quit the TUI.

3. Configure the provider

First, create an API Key on the API Keys page, then store it where the gateway can read it. The gateway runs as a daemon, so a shell export will not reach it. Use OpenClaw’s env file instead:

echo 'SCITIX_API_KEY=<Your API Key>' >> ~/.openclaw/.env

Then edit ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json to add ScitiX as a custom provider and set it as the default model. The wizard has already written gateway and agent settings to this file. Merge these keys in; do not replace the file.

{
  "models": {
    "providers": {
      "scitix": {
        "baseUrl": "https://api.scitix.ai/model-api/v1",
        "apiKey": "${SCITIX_API_KEY}",
        "api": "openai-completions",
        "models": [
          {
            "id": "glm-5.2",
            "name": "ScitiX glm-5.2",
            "contextWindow": 128000,
            "maxTokens": 8192
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "agents": {
    "defaults": {
      "model": { "primary": "scitix/glm-5.2" }
    }
  }
}

Field	Description
`baseUrl`	ScitiX OpenAI-compatible endpoint: `https://api.scitix.ai/model-api/v1`.
`apiKey`	`${VAR}` interpolation reads from `~/.openclaw/.env`, a `.env` in the working directory, or the environment. You can also paste the key directly.
`api`	Wire protocol. Use `openai-completions`.
`contextWindow` / `maxTokens`	Set to match the chosen model’s actual limits.
`agents.defaults.model.primary`	Default model in `<provider>/<model>` form.

Set contextWindow and maxTokens to the actual limits of your chosen model. Values that are too large will be rejected by the platform.

OpenClaw’s agent features rely on the model’s native tool calling. Use a model that supports it. Instead of editing agents.defaults.model.primary by hand, you can also run:

openclaw models set scitix/glm-5.2
openclaw models list

If you would rather use the Anthropic-compatible endpoint, set api to anthropic-messages and baseUrl to https://api.scitix.ai/model-api. The gateway watches ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json and hot-applies model and agent changes automatically. If a change does not seem to take effect, force it with:

openclaw gateway restart

In containers or other environments without systemd user services, openclaw gateway restart reports “Gateway service disabled”. The chat TUI (openclaw) and openclaw agent --local still run the agent embedded, reading the same config with no gateway involved. If you want the gateway for the dashboard or messaging channels, run it in the foreground with openclaw gateway in a separate terminal.

Verify

openclaw models list      # expect scitix/glm-5.2 with the "default,configured" tags

# one-shot task, runs the agent embedded — no gateway required
openclaw agent --agent main -m "introduce yourself in one sentence" --local

The agent command expects the message in -m / --message, not as a positional argument. A session selector such as --agent main is required. You can also start the chat TUI with openclaw chat, which is an alias of tui --local, send a message, and confirm that you get a normal response. If you are running the daemonized gateway, also check:

openclaw gateway status   # expect: running on port 18789

You can then use a connected channel or the dashboard with openclaw dashboard, served at http://127.0.0.1:18789/.

FAQ

Unknown model: scitix/glm-5.2 … no matching models.providers[…] entry: the default model is registered but the provider block is missing, or the config edit did not reach the gateway. Check that models.providers.scitix exists in ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json and restart the gateway.
If authentication fails, check that ~/.openclaw/.env contains the key without quotes or stray whitespace, and restart the gateway after any config change.

Get Started

Models

Usage

API Guides

Tool Integrations

Configure

1. Install OpenClaw

2. Complete onboarding

3. Configure the provider

Verify

FAQ

​Configure

​1. Install OpenClaw

​2. Complete onboarding

​3. Configure the provider

​Verify

​FAQ

Configure

1. Install OpenClaw

2. Complete onboarding

3. Configure the provider

Verify

FAQ