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Run OpenClaw on MIOSA

~15 min TypeScript Python

What you’re building: Install the open-source assistant on a persistent computer that never sleeps.

Primitives you’ll use: Computer

Agent prompt

Start with your coding agent

Choose how you will use it. The brief installs and runs the real tool on MIOSA, then shapes it for your team or your customers. Copy it into OSA, Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor.

Template coming soon

1 What are you building?

Leave it empty and your agent will propose 3 names, pick one, and use it for resources, the domain and branding.

3 Configure

Model
Scale
Extras

4 Your prompt

Reference tool

OpenClaw, by OpenClaw Foundation (https://openclaw.ai): an open-source personal AI assistant that runs on a machine you control and is reached through chat apps.

How it works: OpenClaw runs on a persistent device, takes requests from chat apps (WhatsApp, Telegram and others) and works on email, calendar and the web while you are away.

Key capabilities:

Reached from the chat apps you already use

Runs on a persistent device that never sleeps

Works on inbox, calendar and web tasks

Open source

You will install and RUN the real OpenClaw (open source, stewarded by the OpenClaw Foundation). Read its docs first: https://docs.openclaw.ai/start/getting-started. Every install command below comes from them; if the docs and this brief disagree, the docs win.

How it runs on MIOSA

Where it runs -> a MIOSA computer (a persistent desktop with a browser)

State and files -> State, memory and credentials live on the machine. Use a MIOSA computer so the Gateway stays up between conversations, and extend its TTL (`miosa extend`).

Model -> your own provider key, never a MIOSA platform key

Your customers -> one workspace each, isolated from each other

Goal

Install and run OpenClaw on a MIOSA computer, so it can serve my customers. Each customer is isolated in its own workspace; I meter usage and bill them.

Product name: propose 3 product names, pick one, and use it for resource names, the domain and branding. Until you pick, <product-name> stands for it in the commands below.

Scale: a prototype.

Set up

npm i -g @miosa/cli

miosa login && miosa whoami

miosa api-key create <product-name>-key --preset agent

export MIOSA_API_KEY="msk_u_..."

miosa org

Resources

Computer: a persistent Linux desktop with a browser

miosa computer create <product-name>-desktop

Auth and tenancy

Your organization is the platform; customers never get a MIOSA account, they sign into YOUR product. One workspace per customer, created as they onboard, isolates their machines, runs and data.

miosa workspace create <product-name>-customer-1

Tag every machine and run with the customer id in `metadata`, and never query across customers. Meter usage per customer with GET /api/v1/usage and set who pays with PUT /api/v1/bill-to (/docs/platform/usage-and-billing).

Install OpenClaw

Run these inside the computer (its terminal), in order. The commands are from the official docs.

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

Check: the install finishes without errors; the next sections configure and start it.

Configure

Node 24.16+ or 26.1+ is required; the installer provisions it when needed. The package route is `npm install -g openclaw@latest --allow-scripts=openclaw`.

Onboarding verifies model access, creates the workspace and configures the Gateway; it asks for your own model provider key.

Channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and others) are connected by you with each platform's own credentials.

Model: Anthropic (Claude). Calls use my own provider key (entered in the tool's own setup); MIOSA platform keys are never used.

Run it

Start it and prove it works.

openclaw onboard --install-daemon

openclaw gateway status

Check: the tool starts without errors and responds.

Persistence and access

State, memory and credentials live on the machine. Use a MIOSA computer so the Gateway stays up between conversations, and extend its TTL (`miosa extend`).

Check: after the machine pauses and resumes, the tool starts again with its state intact.

Make it a product

Run one Gateway per customer on its own computer in that customer's workspace, so state, memory and credentials never mix.

Limits and costs

Pin the version you tested and update deliberately; these tools change quickly.

Give the tool only the credentials it needs, as secrets, not baked into files.

Prototype: keep it to one machine at the default size, skip replicas and custom hostnames you do not need, and delete everything when you are done.

Acceptance checks

OpenClaw runs on a MIOSA computer and answers a real task.

State survives a pause and resume.

Each customer has its own workspace and its own instance; nothing is shared between them.

Everything it created can be deleted with nothing left running.

What your choices added

  • Build a product. a workspace per customer, per-customer metering and bill-to
  • Agent suggests a name. proposes 3 product names and picks one; commands use <product-name>
  • Model: Anthropic. your own provider key
  • Prototype. one small machine, no extras, easy to delete

What you're building

an open-source personal AI assistant that runs on a machine you control and is reached through chat apps Modelled on OpenClaw, by OpenClaw Foundation.

OpenClaw runs on a persistent device, takes requests from chat apps (WhatsApp, Telegram and others) and works on email, calendar and the web while you are away.

Primitives you'll use: Computer

  • Reached from the chat apps you already use
  • Runs on a persistent device that never sleeps
  • Works on inbox, calendar and web tasks
  • Open source

You install and run the real OpenClaw on MIOSA. Read the official docs first: docs.openclaw.ai/start/getting-started. Every install command below comes from them; if the docs and this guide disagree, the docs win. OpenClaw is open source, stewarded by the OpenClaw Foundation.

What you need on MIOSA

Each row is one thing to create before you start. The number matches the step that uses it.

  1. Organization and API key Scopes every call; a workspace key is all a worker needs. miosa api-key create app-key --preset agent Docs
  2. Computer A persistent Linux desktop for browser, mouse, and screenshot work. miosa computer create app-desktop Docs
  3. A workspace per customer Isolates each customer’s machines, deployments, and data as they onboard. miosa workspace create customer-1 Docs
  4. Branding and white-label Your name and slug on previews, deployments, and the desktop; customers never see MIOSA. miosa org Docs
  5. Usage metering and bill-to Usage per customer, and which account pays for new machines. miosa org bill Docs

Architecture

How it runs on MIOSA

Where it runs -> a MIOSA computer (a persistent desktop with a browser)

State and files -> State, memory and credentials live on the machine. Use a MIOSA computer so the Gateway stays up between conversations, and extend its TTL (`miosa extend`).

Model -> your own provider key, never a MIOSA platform key

Your customers -> one workspace each, isolated from each other

Auth and tenancy

Your organization is the platform; customers never get a MIOSA account, they sign into YOUR product. One workspace per customer, created as they onboard, isolates their machines, runs and data.

miosa workspace create openclaw-customer-1

Tag every machine and run with the customer id in `metadata`, and never query across customers. Meter usage per customer with GET /api/v1/usage and set who pays with PUT /api/v1/bill-to (/docs/platform/usage-and-billing).

Install OpenClaw

Run these inside the computer (its terminal), in order. The commands are from the official docs.

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

Check: the install finishes without errors; the next sections configure and start it.

Configure

Node 24.16+ or 26.1+ is required; the installer provisions it when needed. The package route is `npm install -g openclaw@latest --allow-scripts=openclaw`.

Onboarding verifies model access, creates the workspace and configures the Gateway; it asks for your own model provider key.

Channels (WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and others) are connected by you with each platform's own credentials.

Model: Anthropic (Claude). Calls use my own provider key (entered in the tool's own setup); MIOSA platform keys are never used.

Run it

Start it and prove it works.

openclaw onboard --install-daemon
openclaw gateway status

Check: the tool starts without errors and responds.

Persistence and access

State, memory and credentials live on the machine. Use a MIOSA computer so the Gateway stays up between conversations, and extend its TTL (`miosa extend`).

Check: after the machine pauses and resumes, the tool starts again with its state intact.

Make it a product

Run one Gateway per customer on its own computer in that customer's workspace, so state, memory and credentials never mix.

Limits and costs

Pin the version you tested and update deliberately; these tools change quickly.

Give the tool only the credentials it needs, as secrets, not baked into files.

Prototype: keep it to one machine at the default size, skip replicas and custom hostnames you do not need, and delete everything when you are done.

Acceptance checks

OpenClaw runs on a MIOSA computer and answers a real task.

State survives a pause and resume.

Each customer has its own workspace and its own instance; nothing is shared between them.

Everything it created can be deleted with nothing left running.

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