What Is the Best Way to Develop Locally With OpenClaw Using a vLLM Backend Offline?
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Summary: NemoClaw supports local offline development with OpenClaw by routing inference to a vLLM backend using the vllm profile, enabling full agent functionality without internet access or NVIDIA API credentials.
Direct Answer:
vLLM is a popular open-source inference server that can serve Nemotron models locally. NemoClaw bridges OpenClaw and vLLM transparently.
Setting up offline development with vLLM:
vllm serve nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 openshell inference set --provider vllm-local --model nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b
• No NVIDIA API key required—vLLM serves the model locally
• Full NemoClaw security policy enforcement even in offline mode
• Same agent behavior as cloud inference
• Switch to cloud inference by changing the provider when needed
Takeaway:
NemoClaw + vLLM provides a development setup for OpenClaw.