OpenClaw Setup — AWS EC2

Automated setup for OpenClaw AI assistant instances on AWS EC2 (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS).

Recommended Instance

• Type: t3.medium (4GB RAM, 2 vCPU)
• OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• Storage: 30GB gp3
• Cost: $30/mo + pay-per-use OpenRouter ($5-20/mo)

Two-Phase Install

Phase 1: Install Tools (run as sudo)

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/max-drucker/openclaw-setup/main/setup.sh | sudo bash

Or use EC2 User Data for automatic install on launch:

#!/bin/bash
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/max-drucker/openclaw-setup/main/setup.sh | bash

Installs: OpenClaw, Node.js, gog, Supabase, GitHub CLI, Railway, Vercel, Claude Code, Codex, Salesforce CLI, AWS CLI, pandoc, Python, utilities.

Phase 2: Configure Assistant (run as normal user)

curl -Lo configure.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/max-drucker/openclaw-setup/main/configure.sh && bash configure.sh

⚠️ Must download first — this script is interactive (asks for name, email, API keys). curl | bash won't work.

Interactive setup that asks for:

• Person's name, email, phone, timezone, role
• Whether they're a Carpe Data employee (loads company knowledge + role-specific personality)
• OpenRouter API key
• WhatsApp linking

Creates: SOUL.md, USER.md, AGENTS.md, MEMORY.md, HEARTBEAT.md, openclaw.json, and (for Carpe employees) COMPANY.md + product/team/process knowledge files.

EC2 Security Group

Open these ports:

• 22 (SSH)
• 18789 (OpenClaw Control UI)

Post-Install Configuration

# Set gateway token
openclaw config set gateway.auth.token 'your-secure-token'

# Enable remote access
openclaw config set gateway.bind 'lan'
openclaw config set gateway.controlUi.allowedOrigins '["*"]'

# Set default model (via OpenRouter)
openclaw config set agents.defaults.model '{"primary":"openrouter/anthropic/claude-opus-4.6"}'

Known Issues

• paste-token strips OpenRouter key prefix: The sk-or-v1- prefix gets stripped when writing to auth-profiles.json. Verify and fix manually after running paste-token.
• openclaw tui is the interactive test command (not openclaw chat)
• Control UI is on port 18789 (not 3000)

Templates

File	Description
templates/COMPANY.md	Carpe Data company overview
templates/memory/carpe-products.md	Product deep dive (Minerva + ClaimsX)
templates/memory/carpe-team.md	Leadership, org chart, routing
templates/memory/carpe-processes.md	Sales process, tools, workflows
templates/souls/carpe-sales.md	Sales role personality
templates/souls/carpe-engineering.md	Engineering role personality
templates/souls/carpe-executive.md	Executive role personality
templates/souls/carpe-ops.md	Operations role personality
templates/AGENTS.md	Workspace conventions
templates/HEARTBEAT.md	Periodic check config
templates/MEMORY.md	Memory starter template

Docs

• Friends & Family Guide — End-user setup walkthrough
• DevOps Guide — Provisioning runbook for Joe