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openclaw/docs/providers/arcee.md
arthurbr11 5ac2f58c57 feat: add Arcee AI provider plugin
Add a bundled Arcee AI provider plugin with ARCEEAI_API_KEY onboarding,
Trinity model catalog (mini, large-preview, large-thinking), and
OpenAI-compatible API support.

- Trinity Large Thinking: 256K context, reasoning enabled
- Trinity Large Preview: 128K context, general-purpose
- Trinity Mini 26B: 128K context, fast and cost-efficient
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Arcee AI Arcee AI setup (auth + model selection)
You want to use Arcee AI with OpenClaw
You need the API key env var or CLI auth choice

Arcee AI

Arcee AI provides access to the Trinity family of mixture-of-experts models through an OpenAI-compatible API. All Trinity models are Apache 2.0 licensed.

  • Provider: arcee
  • Auth: ARCEEAI_API_KEY
  • API: OpenAI-compatible
  • Base URL: https://api.arcee.ai/api/v1

Quick start

  1. Get an API key from the Arcee platform dashboard.

  2. Set the API key (recommended: store it for the Gateway):

openclaw onboard --auth-choice arceeai-api-key
  1. Set a default model:
{
  agents: {
    defaults: {
      model: { primary: "arcee/trinity-large-thinking" },
    },
  },
}

Non-interactive example

openclaw onboard --non-interactive \
  --mode local \
  --auth-choice arceeai-api-key \
  --arceeai-api-key "$ARCEEAI_API_KEY"

This will set arcee/trinity-large-thinking as the default model.

Environment note

If the Gateway runs as a daemon (launchd/systemd), make sure ARCEEAI_API_KEY is available to that process (for example, in ~/.openclaw/.env or via env.shellEnv).

Built-in catalog

OpenClaw currently ships this bundled Arcee catalog:

Model ref Name Input Context Cost (in/out per 1M) Notes
arcee/trinity-large-thinking Trinity Large Thinking text 256K $0.25 / $0.90 Default model; reasoning enabled
arcee/trinity-large-preview Trinity Large Preview text 128K $0.25 / $1.00 General-purpose; 400B params, 13B active
arcee/trinity-mini Trinity Mini 26B text 128K $0.045 / $0.15 Fast and cost-efficient; function calling

The onboarding preset sets arcee/trinity-large-thinking as the default model.

Supported features

  • Streaming
  • Tool use / function calling
  • Structured output (JSON mode and JSON schema)
  • Extended thinking (Trinity Large Thinking)