How to Configure Clawdbot with Wisdom Gate: The Ultimate Guide to Bypassing Official Limits

If you've been on X lately, you've likely seen Clawdbot. Even Andrej Karpathy is impressed. It's essentially "Open Source Siri on Steroids"—an AI assistant that runs on your machine and can chat with you on Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord to perform real tasks (file reading, script execution, web browsing, etc.).

But there's a catch: Clawdbot defaults to the official Anthropic API. If you've ever tried to maintain an official Claude API account, you know the pain: random bans, payment hurdles, and geo-restrictions.

There is a better way. In this guide, we'll show you how to configure Clawdbot to use Wisdom Gate as your high-stability, ban-proof Claude provider.

The Bottleneck: Why Third-Party API?

Clawdbot is just the "body." It needs a "brain" (the LLM). Connecting it directly to Anthropic is like filling a Formula 1 car with gas from a sippy cup.

• Official API: Strict limits, requires a credit card, prone to bans.
• Wisdom Gate: High rate limits, crypto/easy payments, aggregation of multiple models (Opus 4.5, etc.), and no account maintenance headaches.

Step-by-Step Configuration Guide

This tutorial assumes you have already installed Clawdbot. If not, follow their official repo first.

Step 1: Locate the Config File

Clawdbot stores its configuration in a JSON file in your home directory. Open your terminal and edit: ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json

Step 2: The Magic Configuration

Copy and paste the following configuration into your models section. Key Change: We are defining a custom provider cc (Custom Claude) that points to Wisdom Gate.

{
  "models": {
    "providers": {
      "cc": {
        "baseUrl": "https://wisdom-gate.juheapi.com",
        "apiKey": "sk-ant-***YOUR_WISDOM_GATE_KEY***",
        "api": "anthropic-messages",
        "models": [
          {
            "id": "claude-opus-4-5-20251101",
            "name": "Claude Opus 4.5",
            "reasoning": true,
            "input": ["text", "image"],
            "cost": {
              "input": 0,
              "output": 0,
              "cacheRead": 0,
              "cacheWrite": 0
            },
            "contextWindow": 200000,
            "maxTokens": 4096
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "agents": {
    "defaults": {
      "model": {
        "primary": "cc/claude-opus-4-5-20251101"
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 3: Critical Gotchas (Don't Skip This!)

I spent all night debugging this so you don't have to. Here are the 3 things that will break your bot:

1. The api Field: It MUST be anthropic-messages.
   • ❌ anthropic (Will fail)
   • ❌ openai-responses (Will fail)
   • ✅ anthropic-messages (This tells Clawdbot to use the specific Anthropic protocol expected by Wisdom Gate).
2. The baseUrl: Do NOT include /v1.
   • Clawdbot automatically appends /v1 to the URL you provide.
   • ❌ https://wisdom-gate.juheapi.com/v1 -> Becomes .../v1/v1 (404 Error)
   • ✅ https://wisdom-gate.juheapi.com -> Becomes .../v1 (Correct)
3. Model ID: Match the Gateway.
   • Wisdom Gate supports claude-opus-4-5-20251101. Ensure this ID matches exactly what's in your JSON.

Step 4: Restart and Verify

Once you've saved the JSON file, you need to restart the Clawdbot gateway to load the new config.

clawdbot gateway restart

Then, verify the connection:

clawdbot channels status --probe

If you see reachable, you are golden.

Troubleshooting

"403 Forbidden"

• Cause: Your API key might be invalid or has insufficient permissions.
• Fix: Check your Wisdom Gate dashboard. Ensure you have credits and the key is active.

"404 Not Found"

• Cause: You probably included /v1 in the baseUrl.
• Fix: Remove it.

Bot doesn't reply

Check the logs to see the actual error message:

find ~/.clawdbot/agents/main/sessions -name "*.jsonl" -exec ls -t {} \; | head -1

Use tail on the result file to see the last few lines.

Pro Tip: Test with curl First

Before tearing your hair out with Clawdbot config, verify your Key and URL work with a simple curl command:

curl -X POST https://wisdom-gate.juheapi.com/v1/messages \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "anthropic-version: 2023-06-01" \
  -d '{
    "model": "claude-opus-4-5-20251101",
    "max_tokens": 100,
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}]
  }'

If this returns a JSON with content, the API is fine, and the issue is in your clawdbot.json.

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