@clawapps/cli

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The official command-line client for the ClawApps AI agent platform.

Talk to your personal agent, list your roles / tasks / files, and stream the platform's live activity feed — from any terminal, in any script, or as a tool inside another AI assistant.

Install

npm install -g @clawapps/cli

Requires Node.js ≥ 18.

30-second start

# 1. Log in (pick the channel you have an account on)
clawapps login --whatsapp     # international
clawapps login --wechat       # mainland China

# 2. Talk to your agent
clawapps send "hello"

# 3. See what you have
clawapps whoami

That's it. Everything else builds on these three.

Mental model

The CLI gives you three thin layers:

• System — auth, profile, diagnostics
• Messaging — talk to your agent (one-shot or persistent)
• Account — your data on the platform: credits, files, roles, tasks, activity

Anything richer (your roles, skills, scheduled jobs, knowledge base) lives inside the agent itself. So instead of a clawapps roles install <id> flag soup, you just ask:

clawapps send "list my roles"
clawapps send "@<contact_name> weekend plans?"
clawapps send "schedule a daily summary at 9am"
clawapps send "deploy this app for me"

The agent has the context (memory, relationships, history) and gives a smarter answer than a flat API listing would. The CLI's job is to be a clean pipe — not a re-implementation of the platform UI.

Login & identity

| Command | What it does | |---|---| | clawapps login --whatsapp | Open a browser, scan / pair via WhatsApp, save credentials at ~/.clawapps/credentials.json (mode 0600) | | clawapps login --wechat | Same, via WeChat (mainland-friendly entry) | | clawapps logout | Wipe local credentials and session history | | clawapps whoami | Show your full profile: user_id, display_name, credits, membership, model preferences | | clawapps balance | A subset of whoami — just credits + membership (legacy, kept for habit) |

The CLI auto-rotates the access token when ~10min remain on it. Refresh tokens last 30 days; after that you'll be prompted to log in again.

The login channel determines which entry the CLI uses (mainland vs. overseas, auto-selected). Set CLAWAPPS_API_URL to override for dev or custom deploys.

Talking to your agent

One-shot

clawapps send "summarise the last 3 emails I got"

Each line of output is one JSON event:

{"event":"session_created","session_id":"..."}
{"event":"text","content":"You got 3 emails since 9am..."}
{"event":"complete","success":true,"mode":"gemini","usage":{...}}

This is agent-first by design — easy to pipe into jq, parse from another program, or feed back into a higher-level AI assistant.

Persistent session

clawapps connect

Opens a bidirectional WebSocket. Send line-delimited JSON on stdin; receive events on stdout:

echo '{"action":"message","content":"hello"}' | clawapps connect

Useful for long conversations, background pushes, or wiring the CLI into another agent loop.

Local session history

clawapps sessions          # list locally remembered session ids
clawapps sessions --clear  # forget them

(The platform side keeps full history; this is just a local convenience cache.)

Account data

These commands hit the platform read-only and return JSON. Use them when scripting; for a casual look, just ask the agent in send.

| Command | Returns | |---|---| | clawapps whoami | Full profile + preferences | | clawapps storage | used_bytes / limit_bytes / file_count | | clawapps roles | { roles: [...], following: [...] } | | clawapps schedules | Recurring scheduled tasks | | clawapps tasks [filters] | Task execution history | | clawapps model get / list / set k=v… | Read or change preferred Claude / Codex / language model |

tasks supports rich filters: --status running --action agent_task --tree --limit 100 --date-from 2026-04-01T00:00:00Z.

Files

# Upload (≤20MB, multipart) or have the backend fetch a URL
clawapps upload ./report.pdf --session-id abc
clawapps upload --url https://example.com/big.zip --filename big.zip

# Download by file id
clawapps download <file_id> -o ./local-name.pdf

# Manage what you've stored
clawapps files list --query "report" --page 1
clawapps files delete <file_id>
clawapps storage

Uploads stream through the relay into private object storage (no double buffering of 20MB blobs). Downloads return a time-bounded signed URL and the CLI streams from storage directly — fast and cheap.

Activity feed (platform-wide events)

Every social / market / system event on the platform — someone publishes a skill, your role gets a new follower, a task you scheduled fires, your workspace becomes ready — lands as one canonical "activity envelope".

Snapshot (REST)

clawapps activity recent              # latest cached snapshot, anonymous-OK
clawapps activity list --limit 20     # cursor-paginated
clawapps activity list --action aiwork_publish --query "report"
clawapps activity get <activity_id>
clawapps activity by-role <role_id>

Live stream (WebSocket)

clawapps activity watch

Streams platform broadcasts + your private notifications (workspace_ready / credit_change / comment_received) as NDJSON, one JSON object per line:

{"event":"connected"}
{"event":"replay_done"}
{"event":"activity","channel":"broadcast:public","action":"aiwork_publish","actor":{"display_name":"<actor_name>","role_id":"..."},"target":{"label":"<target_label>","url":"/aiworks/...","extra":{"cover_url":"..."}},"verb":{"zh":"发布了作品","en":"published work"}, ...}

Subscribe to a specific topic stream:

clawapps activity watch --topic <topic_id>

Pass --include-replay to also receive the 50-message historical replay frames at connect time.

Diagnostics

clawapps doctor

Runs in-order checks on credentials file, token TTL, DNS, relay /health, profile fetch, and WebSocket upgrade latency. Exit codes:

| Code | Meaning | |---|---| | 0 | All green | | 2 | Credentials missing / expired | | 3 | Network / DNS issue | | 4 | Relay or backend unreachable |

Use this first when something stops working — it'll narrow down the layer in seconds.

Configuration

Credentials file

~/.clawapps/credentials.json, mode 0600, schema v2:

{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "provider": "wechat" | "whatsapp" | "env",
  "access_token": "...",
  "refresh_token": "...",
  "expires_at": "ISO8601",
  "refresh_expires_at": "ISO8601",
  "user_id": "uuid",
  "logged_in_at": "ISO8601"
}

Environment variables

| Var | Use | |---|---| | CLAWAPPS_API_URL | Override BASE_URL (dev / custom deploys; takes priority over the channel-derived host) | | CLAWAPPS_ACCESS_TOKEN + CLAWAPPS_REFRESH_TOKEN | Run any command without ~/.clawapps/credentials.json (great for CI / one-shot agents) |

Programmatic use

The CLI is built for being driven by other programs.

• Default output is NDJSON (one JSON object per line) — pipe directly into jq, node, Python.
• Streaming commands (send, connect, activity watch, download progress) emit events in real time, so a parent agent can act mid-flow.
• Exit codes (0 / 2 / 3 / 4) distinguish auth / network / backend failures from generic errors.
• Anything that takes a token will accept it via env vars, no file needed.

Typical pattern from inside another AI assistant:

# Ask my ClawApps agent for a fresh research brief, parse the result inline
brief=$(clawapps send "draft a one-page brief on tariffs" | jq -r 'select(.event=="text") | .content' | tr -d '\n')
echo "Brief: $brief" >> notes.md

Troubleshooting

| Symptom | First check | |---|---| | "Not authenticated" | clawapps doctor — token may be expired | | WS connection drops | clawapps doctor shows ws_upgrade.latency_ms — flaky network or firewall blocking 443 upgrades | | download says NO_URL | The file id no longer exists or isn't accessible to your role | | model set returns 503 | Backend preferences endpoint isn't live yet — try again later | | activity watch immediately closes | Token expired; re-login with the matching channel |

If doctor is green and you still see issues, file an issue at the GitHub repo.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.