Things I need to setup your openclaw

#Openclaw

LLM API key

For your openclaw to work, it needs an LLM. Let me know which LLM provider you want to use (most people go with Anthropic or OpenAI) and provide me either an access token or an API key.

OpenAI

API Key (pay as you go)

  1. Create an API key in your openai dashboard

Codex subscription

This is a little more involved - let me know if you want to use this option.

Anthropic

API Key (pay as you go)

  1. Create an API key in the Anthropic Console.

Token (subscription)

  1. Make sure your computer has claude installed
  2. claude setup-token <- this will take you through a login flow in your browser and provide a token in your terminal.

Disclaimer: It is against Anthropic's TOS to use a subscription access token for openclaw, but most people have used it just fine.

Openrouter

  1. Sign up or log in at OpenRouter
  2. Navigate to your API Keys page
  3. Create a new API key
  4. Copy your key (starts with sk-or-...)

Paste the token/API key into a 1password note

Telegram setup

Create Your Telegram Bot via BotFather

Open Telegram App (on your computer or phone) and search for @BotFather. Make sure it has the blue verification checkmark. There are impostors. The real one is verified.

Start a chat and send /newbot.

BotFather will ask you two things:

  1. A name for your bot — This is the display name. Something like "My AI Assistant" or "DevBot" or "The Oracle" if you're feeling dramatic.
  2. A username for your bot — Must end in bot. Like myassistant_bot or devhelper_bot. Must be unique across all of Telegram.

Once you pick a valid username, BotFather will congratulate you and hand you a bot token. It looks like this:

7294810234:AAFxyz1234abcDEFghijKLMNOPqrstuvwxyz

Copy this token into the 1password note with the LLM key and share the note with me (agordhandas@gmail.com)

Things I need to setup your openclaw - Ankit Gordhandas