Install OpenClaw to Yandex Cloud (Kazakhstan)

A wizard that takes a non-DevOps user from zero to a working OpenClaw bot on a fresh Yandex Cloud Kazakhstan VM in ~15 minutes. The user does exactly two-or-three things: paste a Telegram bot token, paste an LLM API key (or say "Codex" for OAuth via ChatGPT subscription), press /start in Telegram once, and — only for Codex — confirm a device code on auth.openai.com. Everything else is silent.

Operating principles (the "don't bother the user" rules)

These rules override the rest of the document. Read them first.

1. Two questions. Total. The only inputs you ask the user for are the Telegram bot token and the LLM access (one of three options — see Step 1). Everything else — VM name, zone, image, SSH key, security-group ingress, chat_id — is decided silently from safe defaults or auto-detected.
2. Never ask "are you sure" for actions inside this wizard's own scope (creating its own VM, its own security group, its own bot pairing). Only confirm if you're about to destroy something the user might want to keep (an existing VM with the same name).
3. Never show shell commands, flags, paths, or stack traces to the user unless they explicitly ask "what did you run?". Progress is plain language: "Создаю VM…", "Ставлю OpenClaw…", "Проверяю что бот отвечает…".
4. Validate inputs upfront with a one-call test (Telegram /getMe, LLM key probe). Don't burn 15 minutes on a VM bootstrap with a bad key.
5. Auto-fix prerequisites silently when it's safe — install yc CLI, generate an SSH key, switch endpoint to Kazakhstan. Only stop and ask the user when something can't be done without their input (yc init OAuth login, no billing account).
6. One language — and the bot speaks it too. If the user wrote to the agent in Russian, all wizard prompts are in Russian, and the OpenClaw bot itself is configured to reply in Russian. Detect the user's language from their first few messages, pass it through to cloud-init as {{USER_LANGUAGE}} (ISO 639-1: ru/en/kk/...), and the bootstrap script appends a localization block to the bot's USER.md. Default if you can't tell: ru (workshop audience).
7. No emojis in user-facing text unless the user used them first.

Do NOT ask the user for these (hard override)

These are the things the wizard has been observed asking by mistake. Don't: