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Chutes

Chutes

Section titled “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

Quick start

Section titled “Quick start”

OAuth

Section titled “OAuth”
Terminal window
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

API key

Section titled “API key”
Terminal window
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.

Discovery behavior

Section titled “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.

Default aliases

Section titled “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

Built-in starter catalog

Section titled “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

Config example

Section titled “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" },
      },
    },
  },
}

Notes

Section titled “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>.