OpenClaw

Start LM Studio's local server

Make sure LM Studio is running as a server (default port 1234).

You can start it from the app, or from the terminal with lms:

lms server start --port 1234

Run OpenClaw with LM Studio as model provider

Install OpenClaw as normal or run the OpenClaw onboard command as follows (recommended)

openclaw onboard

and complete the interactive setup with LM Studio as your model provider

You can do the onboarding in non-interactive way by using the following command:

openclaw onboard \
  --non-interactive \
  --accept-risk \
  --auth-choice lmstudio \
  --custom-base-url http://localhost:1234/v1 \
  --lmstudio-api-key "$LM_API_TOKEN" \
  --custom-model-id qwen/qwen3.5-9b

Set up LM Studio as default memory search provider

To use LM Studio as the embedding model provider for memory search, run the following command and restart openclaw gateway

openclaw config set agents.defaults.memorySearch.provider lmstudio
openclaw gateway restart