Set Up Claude Code for OpenClaw

Open Spotlight (Cmd+Space), type "Terminal", and press Enter.

Selection in the terminal often includes a trailing newline or a stray space. Those characters count as part of the key, so auth fails even though the token looks correct.

After pasting, check that the value is exactly one line: nothing before sk-ant-, nothing after the last character, and no blank line under it in .env or your OpenClaw config.

Sanitize the clipboard (run this after you have copied the token from the terminal, then paste again from the clipboard):

# macOS
pbpaste | tr -d '\n\r' | pbcopy

# Windows (PowerShell)
Set-Clipboard -Value ((Get-Clipboard).Trim())

# Linux (X11, if xclip is installed)
xclip -selection clipboard -o | tr -d '\n\r' | xclip -selection clipboard

Capture the token from the command output (no manual selection) — claude setup-token only supports --help; there is no --output or “copy to clipboard” flag. When setup finishes, Claude Code prints the token — often split across two lines (terminal width). A plain grep on each line only sees the first chunk, so you get nothing useful or a truncated key.

Log output first, complete the browser flow, then extract the full token (joins wrapped lines; stops at the blank line before Store this token):

claude setup-token 2>&1 | tee /tmp/claude-setup-token.log
# after the command exits:
perl -0777 -ne '
  if (/(sk-ant-oat01-[\s\S]*?)(?=\n\n|\z)/) {
    ($t = $1) =~ s/\n//g;
    $t =~ s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
    print "$t\n";
  }
' /tmp/claude-setup-token.log
rm /tmp/claude-setup-token.log   # contains a secret — delete it after copying

If the prefix ever changes from sk-ant-oat01-, adjust the Perl regex to match your log (or copy the two lines manually and delete the line break between them).

On Windows, use Git Bash, WSL, or Perl with the same one-liner; otherwise use manual copy + Set-Clipboard trim.