Summary

The openclaw command takes 17+ seconds to execute even for simple operations like --help, --version, or invalid commands. This makes the CLI nearly unusable.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install openclaw on a Raspberry Pi 4
2. Run time openclaw --help or time openclaw --version or even an invalid command!
3. Observe the execution time

Expected behavior

The --help and --version flags as well as most commandsshould execute in under 1 second.

Actual behavior

openclaw@pi4b:~ $ time openclaw --help
🦞 OpenClaw 2026.1.30 (76b5208) — Less middlemen, more messages.

Usage: openclaw [options] [command]
[... help output ...]

real	0m17.812s
user	0m21.138s
sys	0m1.856s