Just to clarify: I believe it should cache them (it works for me).

So far I like it much more than Gemini CLI (my previous daily driver for personal projects). Seems more mature and "feels more intelligent" (very subjective ofc)

It does. It uses go-keyring under the hood, which has its own issues with certain systems.

If you're on WSL, getting dbus to work is a PITA. There may be other OS-level issues that folks are running into.

It requires a keyring service being installed (accessed over dbus) and if there isn't one it just silently doesn't store them anywhere. Pretty bad UX.

My (unfounded) guess is this is to prevent usage by other tools/openclaw. The browser login will have a fingerprinting to make sure you are a human.