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Runway

Runway

Section titled “Runway”

OpenClaw ships a bundled runway provider for hosted video generation.

  • Provider id: runway
  • Auth: RUNWAYML_API_SECRET (canonical) or RUNWAY_API_KEY
  • API: Runway task-based video generation (GET /v1/tasks/{id} polling)

Quick start

Section titled “Quick start”
  1. Set the API key:
Terminal window
openclaw onboard --auth-choice runway-api-key
  1. Set Runway as the default video provider:
Terminal window
openclaw config set agents.defaults.videoGenerationModel.primary "runway/gen4.5"
  1. Ask the agent to generate a video. Runway will be used automatically.

Supported modes

Section titled “Supported modes”
ModeModelReference input
Text-to-videogen4.5 (default)None
Image-to-videogen4.51 local or remote image
Video-to-videogen4_aleph1 local or remote video
  • Local image and video references are supported via data URIs.
  • Video-to-video currently requires runway/gen4_aleph specifically.
  • Text-only runs currently expose 16:9 and 9:16 aspect ratios.

Configuration

Section titled “Configuration”
{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      videoGenerationModel: {
        primary: "runway/gen4.5",
      },
    },
  },
}
Section titled “Related”