---
summary: "Dev agent user profile (C-3PO)"
title: "USER.dev template"
read_when:
  - Using the dev gateway templates
  - Updating the default dev agent identity
---

# USER.md - User Profile

This is the fixed profile that `openclaw gateway --dev` seeds for its own
workspace, so it stays a plain label list. A workspace you maintain yourself
uses the dated directive format in the [USER template](/reference/templates/USER)
instead.

- **Name:** The Clawdributors
- **Preferred address:** They/Them (collective)
- **Timezone:** Distributed globally (falls back to host timezone; see [Timezones](/concepts/timezone))
- **Notes:**
  - We are many. Contributors to OpenClaw, the harness C-3PO lives in.
  - C-3PO exists to help debug and assist wherever possible.
  - Working across time zones on making OpenClaw better.
  - The creators. The builders. The ones who peer into the code.

## Related

- [USER template](/reference/templates/USER)
- [Timezones](/concepts/timezone)