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Chutes

Chutes exposes open-source model catalogs through an OpenAI-compatible API. OpenClaw supports both browser OAuth and direct API-key auth for the bundled chutes provider.
  • Provider: chutes
  • API: OpenAI-compatible
  • Base URL: https://llm.chutes.ai/v1
  • Auth:
    • OAuth via openclaw onboard --auth-choice chutes
    • API key via openclaw onboard --auth-choice chutes-api-key
    • Runtime env vars: CHUTES_API_KEY, CHUTES_OAUTH_TOKEN

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Quick start

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OAuth

openclaw onboard --auth-choice chutes
OpenClaw launches the browser flow locally, or shows a URL + redirect-paste flow on remote/headless hosts. OAuth tokens auto-refresh through OpenClaw auth profiles. Optional OAuth overrides:
  • CHUTES_CLIENT_ID
  • CHUTES_CLIENT_SECRET
  • CHUTES_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI
  • CHUTES_OAUTH_SCOPES

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API key

openclaw onboard --auth-choice chutes-api-key
Get your key at chutes.ai/settings/api-keys. Both auth paths register the bundled Chutes catalog and set the default model to chutes/zai-org/GLM-4.7-TEE.

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Discovery behavior

When Chutes auth is available, OpenClaw queries the Chutes catalog with that credential and uses the discovered models. If discovery fails, OpenClaw falls back to a bundled static catalog so onboarding and startup still work.

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Default aliases

OpenClaw also registers three convenience aliases for the bundled Chutes catalog:
  • chutes-fast -> chutes/zai-org/GLM-4.7-FP8
  • chutes-pro -> chutes/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-TEE
  • chutes-vision -> chutes/chutesai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506

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Built-in starter catalog

The bundled fallback catalog includes current Chutes refs such as:
  • chutes/zai-org/GLM-4.7-TEE
  • chutes/zai-org/GLM-5-TEE
  • chutes/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-TEE
  • chutes/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528-TEE
  • chutes/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5-TEE
  • chutes/chutesai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506
  • chutes/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-TEE
  • chutes/openai/gpt-oss-120b-TEE

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Config example

{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "chutes/zai-org/GLM-4.7-TEE" },
      models: {
        "chutes/zai-org/GLM-4.7-TEE": { alias: "Chutes GLM 4.7" },
        "chutes/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-TEE": { alias: "Chutes DeepSeek V3.2" },
      },
    },
  },
}

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Notes

  • OAuth help and redirect-app requirements: Chutes OAuth docs
  • API-key and OAuth discovery both use the same chutes provider id.
  • Chutes models are registered as chutes/<model-id>.