Last updated: 2026-10-30
What is Gateway?
Two related meanings. In OpenClaw and Hermes, the Gateway is the long-running process that connects chat channels (Telegram, Discord and others) to the agent, installed as a background service (`openclaw gateway install`, then `openclaw gateway status`). More generally, an LLM gateway is a proxy between your agent and one or more model providers, used for request logging, provider failover, rate limiting and prompt-cache sharing.
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