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Repovive

The Gateway Daemon: macOS - Setting Up Your AI Assistant | OpenClaw | Repovive

Repovive.

The Gateway Daemon: macOS

macOS daemon setup

4 min

On macOS the daemon runs as a LaunchAgent. That means it starts automatically when you log in and restarts if it crashes. Nice, right?

The onboarding wizard already wrote the plist file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openclaw.gateway.plist. If you skipped the wizard, generate it yourself:

openclaw gateway install

Check the daemon's status anytime:

openclaw gateway status

If you see "running" with a PID, you're good. If it says "not loaded," run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openclaw.gateway.plist and check again.