agents
openclaw agents
Section titled “openclaw agents”Manage isolated agents (workspaces + auth + routing).
Related:
- Multi-agent routing: Multi-Agent Routing
- Agent workspace: Agent workspace
Examples
Section titled “Examples”openclaw agents listopenclaw agents add work --workspace ~/.openclaw/workspace-workopenclaw agents set-identity --workspace ~/.openclaw/workspace --from-identityopenclaw agents set-identity --agent main --avatar avatars/openclaw.pngopenclaw agents delete workIdentity files
Section titled “Identity files”Each agent workspace can include an IDENTITY.md at the workspace root:
- Example path:
~/.openclaw/workspace/IDENTITY.md set-identity --from-identityreads from the workspace root (or an explicit--identity-file)
Avatar paths resolve relative to the workspace root.
Set identity
Section titled “Set identity”set-identity writes fields into agents.list[].identity:
namethemeemojiavatar(workspace-relative path, http(s) URL, or data URI)
Load from IDENTITY.md:
openclaw agents set-identity --workspace ~/.openclaw/workspace --from-identityOverride fields explicitly:
openclaw agents set-identity --agent main --name "OpenClaw" --emoji "🦞" --avatar avatars/openclaw.pngConfig sample:
{ agents: { list: [ { id: "main", identity: { name: "OpenClaw", theme: "space lobster", emoji: "🦞", avatar: "avatars/openclaw.png", }, }, ], },}