OpenClaw is insane

I had to jump on the clawdbot moltbot OpenClaw bandwagon. This thing is crazy.

TL;DR

The elevator pitch is the AI that actually does things and it is not wrong. Out of the box you can expect

• Runs on your machine
• Interact with the bot from almost any chat app
• Browser control
• Persistent memory
• Full system access (if you enable it - start sandboxed)

Go see for yourself.

My Journey

I've been playing for a few weeks now. Initially via a VPS and since moved to an old linux machine. Some of the workflows and thins I have setup include:

• A daily briefing with the things I care about
  • Quick crypto price update
  • Recent web search and shares top articles on crypto, ai and OpenClaw itself
  • local news and headlines plus weather (lol)
  • Any open reminders I have
  • Reminder of things I have asked to discuss later with the agent
• Daily notes
  • Pings me every night with a summary of what we have done that day
  • weekly cron to summarise the dailies
  • monthly cron to summarise the weeklies
  • quarterly, yearly and you get the idea
• Every evening it runs its own mini retro
  • Evaluates what has been working well and what it’s struggled with
  • Suggests improvements to MEMORY.md (and other alignment files) for me to approve.
• Then a bunch of the usual boring stuff;
  • Periodic checking of calendar and email and all that jazz

So what

True, it is not mind blowing stuff. But is is safe and boring things that speed me up and add value. Yeah I had a play and had the agent order something from Amazon, call some friends and family for fun. That's just me having a play around. But my real use case here is have the agent automate the boring stuff on my behalf.

There is a lot of hate and a lot of mania around this. Both are probably granted. I would recommend playing around though in whatever limits are comfortable for you. I think everyone will find something useful that can be done with this - the opportunities are honestly endless.

What's next?

For me. Iterate. Keep improving my workflows. Particularly interested in doing things onchain with agents.