OpenClaw Gateway
OpenClaw Community · 2025
The OpenClaw process supervisor — channels, cron, sessions, and routing — exposed as a single daemon.
The OpenClaw gateway is the long-running supervisor process that sits
behind the agent layer. While openclaw-agent is the runtime for a single
session, the gateway is what holds channels, crons, sessions, and routing
in a single daemon — the thing you actually leave running on a host.
This entry is distinct from the top-level openclaw directory entry,
which scopes to the agent runtime itself. The gateway piece covers
openclaw gateway start|status|stop, the channel matrix, the cron
subsystem, and the session lifecycle. v2026.6.8 (build 844f405, verified
on this host) is the current stable line; v2026.6.8-beta.1 added GLM-5.2
and Claude Haiku 4.5 provider routing, a WhatsApp ACP channel, a usage
footer renderer, and an iOS gateway reconnect fix.
Spec sheet
Open Source
Hybrid
2025
Open source
Key features
- Single-process gateway daemon (`openclaw gateway start`)
- Channel routing across 20+ platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, iMessage, Matrix, Signal, WhatsApp, Google Chat, Teams, Email, etc.)
- Cron scheduler with isolated / main / session targets
- Session lifecycle management (direct, cron, group, isolated)
- [object Object]
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) server integration
- Work Board for fleet coordination
- Provider/model routing with fallbacks
- SecretRef contract for secrets handling