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The Agent Builder walks you through 9 sequential steps to create a complete, deployable AI agent configuration.

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How It Works

Each step focuses on one aspect of your agent's design. Steps 1 and 2 are required — everything else has sensible defaults and can be skipped or customized later.

The builder generates two outputs:

  1. System Prompt — A comprehensive instruction set compiled from your goal, persona, policies, tools, and memory settings. This is what the LLM actually reads at runtime.

  2. OpenClaw JSON — A structured configuration file containing the system prompt, tool definitions, connector configs, trigger rules, memory settings, and MCP pipeline graph. This is what you deploy.

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Navigation

  • Progress through steps sequentially using the Next Step button

  • Jump back to any completed step by clicking its icon in the progress bar

  • You cannot skip ahead to uncompleted steps

  • The current step glows in the progress bar; completed steps show a checkmark

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Saving vs. Exporting

When you click Pay & Export on Step 9, two things happen:

  1. The agent is saved to your ClawEngine account (visible on the Agents page, editable anytime)

  2. The OpenClaw JSON file is downloaded to your computer for deployment

The on-chain payment of 100 $CWE is required for the export/download. Saving alone (via the API) costs 100 $CWE from your in-platform balance.

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Starting Over

The wizard resets each time you open the Create Agent page. If you leave mid-wizard, progress is not saved. Once exported, agents are stored permanently in your account.

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What's Next

Start with Step 1 — Goal & Identity, or browse Templates to fork a pre-built agent.

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