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identiclaw: Deploy Your First Agent

Step-by-step guide to deploying your first identiclaw agent with its own cryptographic identity and connecting to Telegram.

This cookbook has a dedicated interactive guide with a better experience.

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Overview

identiclaw is an OpenClaw agent creator that gives your agent its own identity credentials from the start. Instead of agents acting as you with your personal API keys, identiclaw agents get their own cryptographic identity (DID) and scoped permissions.

What You'll Build

  • A running AI agent on Cloudflare Workers
  • Its own cryptographic identity (DID)
  • A GitHub repo with auto-deploy on push
  • A Telegram bot people can talk to
  • A dashboard to monitor everything

Prerequisites

RequirementDetails
AI Provider API KeyAnthropic (Claude) or OpenAI (GPT)
Cloudflare AccountFree tier works
GitHub AccountFor hosting your agent's code
TelegramOptional, for connecting a chat bot

Time Estimate

~10 minutes


Quick Steps

  1. Create a Cloudflare API token — Use the "Edit Cloudflare Workers" template at dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens
  2. Deploy your agent — Use the deploy wizard
  3. Deploy to Cloudflare — Click "Deploy to Cloudflare" on the success screen
  4. Connect Telegram — Create a bot via @BotFather, paste the token in your dashboard's Connections tab
  5. Talk to your agent — Send a message to your bot on Telegram

For the full interactive guide with detailed instructions, screenshots, and troubleshooting:

Open the identiclaw Setup Guide →