openclaw reset

Reset local config/state (keeps the CLI installed).

openclaw resetopenclaw reset --dry-runopenclaw reset --scope config --yes --non-interactiveopenclaw reset --scope config+creds+sessions --yes --non-interactiveopenclaw reset --scope full --yes --non-interactive

Options

• --scope <scope>: config, config+creds+sessions, or full
• --yes: skip confirmation prompts
• --non-interactive: disable prompts. Requires --scope and --yes.
• --dry-run: print actions without removing files

Scopes

config+creds+sessions and full stop a running managed gateway service before deleting state.

The sessions scope removes current and archived sessions, retained transcript generations, cold history, and session-owned artifacts from configured and discovered agent stores, including agents no longer in config. It keeps the per-agent database files because they also contain auth profiles, memory, and other agent state. Workspace files and auth profiles survive. There is no standalone --scope sessions option.

--dry-run lists the databases, session keys, transcript/archive counts, and owned archive files selected for removal without writing SQLite state. Legacy JSON/JSONL imports remain owned by Doctor; reset does not recursively delete session directories.

Notes

• Run openclaw backup create first for a restorable snapshot before removing local state.
• Both scopes that remove sessions require exclusive state ownership. If an unmanaged or externally supervised Gateway is still running, reset refuses and asks you to stop it first.
• Workspace setup state and attestations are rows in the shared SQLite database. full removes them with the state directory. There are no current attestation sidecar files to remove separately.
• If archive-file removal fails after session rows are deleted, reset reports the exact remaining files for manual cleanup. It never deletes unrelated files merely because their names look like session archives.
• Session cleanup failures do not skip other agent stores or the independent config and OAuth directory cleanup. Failed stores retain any history whose removal was refused.
• Without --scope, openclaw reset prompts interactively for the scope to remove.
• --non-interactive is only valid when both --scope and --yes are set.
• config+creds+sessions and full print Next: openclaw onboard --install-daemon when done.
• Failed removals or session-directory inspection exit nonzero. Resolve the reported errors, then retry the reset; incomplete resets do not print the onboarding completion hint.

Related

• CLI reference
• openclaw backup — archive state before resetting it
• openclaw onboard — set the install up again after a reset
• openclaw uninstall — remove the install instead of resetting it