‏Daemon محلي دائم

A daemon is a background process that keeps running on its own, without a window or your constant attention. 👻

OpenClaw runs the Gateway as a persistent local daemon. It quietly stays alive in the background on your own machine.

Local means it lives on your hardware, not a remote server. Your assistant runs where you do: your hardware, your rules.

Persistent means it stays running. The daemon does not stop when you close a terminal, so OpenClaw is reachable 24/7. ⏰

You register the daemon during setup. The onboarding wizard installs it for you with one flag.

Messages can arrive any time. A long-lived daemon means the Gateway is always there to catch and route them.

Because it never sleeps, the daemon keeps your channel connections open so chats stay bridged around the clock.

The persistent daemon is also what lets memory stay 24/7, retaining context so conversations pick up where they left off.

Once installed, the daemon runs in the background. You can close your terminal and OpenClaw keeps listening.

There is a single Gateway daemon coordinating everything. It is the one long-lived process behind your whole assistant.

The takeaway: a persistent local daemon keeps OpenClaw available day and night, ready whenever you message it.

The Gateway is a persistent local daemon: a background process on your hardware that stays alive so OpenClaw is always reachable. 🎉