OpenClaw Model Manager: A GUI for the Power Users Who Hate Waiting

How I built a standalone web dashboard to tame OpenClaw's CLI—and what it taught me about AI infrastructure in the real world. The Problem Nobody Talks About OpenClaw is genuinely powerful. It runs a local AI gateway that routes your conversations through any combination of models—Anthropic, OpenRouter, Google, local Ollama models—with fallback chains, auth profiles, aliases, and session management baked right in. Once it's configured, it mostly just works. But "mostly just works" hides a lot of friction. Want to know if your gateway is running? openclaw gateway status . Want to change your primary model? Edit a JSON config file, then restart the gateway. Want to see which provider is in a rate-limit cooldown? Good luck—dig through auth-profiles.json manually. Want to check if your dual RTX 3060s can actually run that 34B parameter model? Open a calculator. The tools are all there. They're just scattered, CLI-only, and invisible when you need them most. That's why I built OpenClaw Mode