An agent in its own workspace

Run OpenClaw, an autonomous agent, in a dedicated workspace agent — its own account, files and logins, isolated from your own work.

You need: nothing beyond Getting started.

1. Create the workspace

devmachine workspaces new agent
devmachine sync

A workspace is its own account. Whatever the agent installs, or breaks, stays inside it and never touches alice or any other workspace — see machines and workspaces.

2. Install OpenClaw

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

The installer sets up Node itself if the account has none.

3. Keep it running

tmux new -s agent
openclaw onboard

openclaw onboard walks through first-time setup, then runs the Gateway in the foreground. tmux keeps that session alive after you log out — detach with Ctrl-b d. To make it survive a reboot too, see OpenClaw’s own docs on running it as a background service (openclaw onboard --install-daemon).

Check it: back in the workspace (devmachine ssh agent, then tmux attach -t agent), the Gateway is still running.

Source: OpenClaw — Install