# Install openclaw-cli with Homebrew, dnf, Nix

Your own personal AI assistant. Version 2026.7.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-14. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#openclaw.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:openclaw-cli
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install openclaw-cli
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install openclaw
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: openclaw from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#openclaw
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/op/openclaw/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:openclaw-cli
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2026.7.1
- **Source summary:** Your own personal AI assistant
- **Homepage:** <https://openclaw.ai/>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-14T18:47:59Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- openclaw (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2026.7.1
## Project history and usage

OpenClaw is packaged around the `openclaw` command and documented as a self-hosted gateway for personal AI assistance. The official docs describe a single Gateway process that connects chat apps and channel plugins to AI coding agents, with sessions, memory, tool use, multi-agent routing, and local control as the central design points.

### Project history

The public project materials emphasize architecture and setup more than origin chronology. The repository and docs present OpenClaw as an MIT-licensed, community-driven project with a Node-based CLI onboarding flow, a long-running Gateway daemon, a browser dashboard, and channel integrations for messaging surfaces such as Discord, iMessage, Signal, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, Matrix, and others.

### How it is used

Operators install the CLI with a JavaScript package manager such as npm, pnpm, or bun, then run `openclaw onboard` to configure the gateway, workspace, channels, and skills. The recommended daemon mode installs the Gateway as a user service through launchd or systemd so the assistant remains reachable from configured chat surfaces.

### Why package nerds care

For package metadata, OpenClaw is notable less as a standalone model client and more as a local agent gateway: the package exposes a CLI, installs a daemon-style service, and bridges external chat channels to local or provider-backed coding agents. Its history is thinly documented in primary sources, so the useful enrichment is mostly about packaging shape and operating model.

### Sources

- <https://docs.openclaw.ai/cli>
- <https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw>
- <https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/main/docs/index.md>
- <https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for openclaw-cli. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.openclaw/openclaw.json, auth-profiles.json, .env, agents/*/agent/models.json
## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - openclaw: installed executable or alias match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/op/openclaw/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - openclaw - 2026.5.7-5.fc45: installed executable or alias match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: openclaw from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Your own personal AI assistant | https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/openclaw-cli.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/openclaw-cli.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph