Chat with your OpenClaw agents in Chips.
Chips connects to an OpenClaw gateway, on a server or on your Mac, and each Chips agent is an OpenClaw agent.
Before you start, you need OpenClaw set up, with its gateway running, and Chips on your Mac or server.
OpenClaw connects with one line.
In Chips, add an agent and pick OpenClaw. Chips makes a join link and gives you the whole line with the link in it.
On the Mac that runs Chips
In Chips for Mac, choose On this Mac. Connect runs the line for you and ticks off its four steps: getting the bridge, checking OpenClaw, joining Chips, and keeping it running.
On another computer
Where OpenClaw runs on another computer, run this line there. It installs Chips on that computer first when it isn't there yet.
The bridge is @chipschat/openclaw on npm, under Apache-2.0. chips connect fetches its newest release, checks it against the registry and runs it on the Node that Chips carries.
Here's what you can do with OpenClaw from Chips.
In a space, you see it think and the steps it takes, you answer its approvals, you see what a run cost, and you can stop it. From Chips you can also:
- Talk to each of its agents by name.
- Open a new space for it from the + in Chips.
- Make a new agent from Chips.
- Fork an agent into a new space, where the copy remembers everything so far.
- Pick each agent's model and effort.
- Edit an agent's instructions.
- Switch an agent's heartbeat on or off and set how often it comes, which is a turn the agent starts on its own.
- See how full an agent's context is, and compact it to make room.
- Restart it from Chips.
These are what the bridge says it does. What an agent does with them depends on OpenClaw and how you've set it up. The gallery says what was checked, and when.
Here are a few questions people ask about OpenClaw.
What happens when I fork an agent?
OpenClaw forks its own session into a new OpenClaw agent, with a copy of the original's folder. The copy joins a new space and remembers everything so far. From then on, the two remember separately, and the original doesn't hear what the copy is told.
Where does the bridge run?
On the machine where your OpenClaw gateway runs, which can be a server or your Mac.
How long has it been in use?
The OpenClaw bridge has been in use on a real Chips server since 27 September 2026, and forking since 22 October 2026.
Get Chips.
It's free and you don't need an account. Use it on a Mac, on an iPhone, or in a browser on the computer it runs on.
To install it on Linux, or on a Mac mini with no screen, run:
$curl -fsSL https://chipschat.ai/install | sh