Upgrade Clawdbot to Openclaw

Clawdbot is super trending at the moment, and it just changed name two times in a row.

Not it's called Openclaw, and with that new name comes a new binary.

So if you want to stay up to date, you'll need to migrate from clawd/molt to openclaw.

Here's how to do it without losing all your precious config:

Stop your current setup

Stop the gateway service

clawdbot gateway stop

Install OpenClaw npm package

npm install -g openclaw@latest
# or: pnpm add -g openclaw@latest
# or: bun add -g openclaw@latest

Run doctor (auto-migration)

openclaw doctor --non-interactive

The release notes mention: "Config: auto-migrate legacy state/config paths and keep config resolution consistent across legacy filenames" — so OpenClaw should pick up your existing ~/.clawdbot/config automatically.

Restart with openclaw

openclaw gateway --port 18789 --verbose

Re-pair channels if needed

Run through any channel re-auth if tokens expired, but the credentials should migrate too.

Docs reference: https://docs.openclaw.ai/install/updating