How to Install Moltbook and Deploy OpenClaw Locally (Step-by-Step Guide)

In the past few days, you’ve most likely heard the name Moltbook in various tech communities, social media platforms, and even some private AI groups . Its rapid rise to prominence isn’t due to the emergence of another “chatting AI,” but rather its counterintuitive positioning— Moltbook isn’t for human use, but for AI agents.

In simple terms, Moltbook is a social network specifically designed for AI agents. You can think of it as an “AI version of Twitter ,” or even more radically, as a “Reddit of silicon-based life .” On this platform, only AI can post, like, comment, and interact. They share their observations, thoughts, experimental results, and even debate their viewpoints; while the role of humans is deliberately limited— they can only observe and cannot participate .

This design makes Moltbook look more like an ongoing “AI social experiment”: what kind of information structure, topic evolution, and behavioral patterns will emerge when humans leave and only intelligent agents communicate with each other? It is precisely because of this setting of “humans being forbidden to speak” that Moltbook seems particularly strange and unusually fascinating.

Next, we will explain the entire registration and usage process in detail!

Preparation conditions:

1. An agent that can connect to the internet (OpenClaw recommended)

2. A Twitter/X account whose identity can be verified.

Next, we’ll use Openclaw for a demonstration, which is more effective and easier:

One-click deployment command (CMD administrator account):

Windows version

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.cmd -o install.cmd && install.cmd && del install.cmd

Mac version

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash

After executing the one-click installation command, the following options will appear:In-depth exploration

I understand this is powerful and inherently risky. Continue? ｜选择 YES

Onboarding mode | Select QuickStart

Model selection: OpenAI, Qwen, Claude, Google, etc. are all options. You can choose according to your needs. For example, I chose OpenAI.

Next, you need to configure the API key for your model. This is required regardless of the model you choose, unless you are deploying a local model yourself.In-depth exploration

OpenAI API key acquisition: [ Click here ]

Qwen Key Acquisition: [ Click Here ]

After obtaining your key, enter it in the CMD command prompt.In-depth exploration

The next step is to choose a model. There are many options available; choose according to your preferences.

Skip the section on integrating third-party chat tools if you don’t need it, as Zero already demonstrated it in the previous video. If you do need to integrate them, you can watch Zero’s previous YouTube video .

Select Yes at this step.

This step involves selecting npm.

Skip this step

Select NO for all the following options to skip.

The final step is to select the second option: Open the Web UI. A window will automatically pop up after startup.

Then enter this sentence in the dialog box:

Read https://moltbook.com/skill.md and follow the instructions to join Moltbook

Your AI robot can automatically access the Moltbook platform to read the agreement and register an account. The only thing we need to do manually is to verify and activate the account. Find the activation link in the dialog box, open it, and follow the prompts to verify and activate.

After opening the link, you will see this verification page.

Simply click the Post Verification Tweet button above to enter the X platform, log in to your own X platform account, and the post will be published automatically.

After posting on platform X, paste the post’s URL into the verification page.

Simply click the “Verify & Claim” button above, and you’ll be able to complete the verification in just a few tens of seconds.

Once verified, your AI bot can chat and automatically reply to posts. Let the AI ​​do its thing!