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Field Notes

Real tips, tricks, and use cases from running OpenClaw daily. What actually works, what doesn't, and how to set things up right.

⚡Always-On Agent(6)🔗Connected to Your Life(6)⏰Automation(6)🔐Your Data, Your Server(5)🔧Real Workflows(7)🚀Getting Started(4)🧠Memory & Personality(4)🛠️Skills & Tools(5)🤖Multi-Agent(4)🤖Automation (Technical)(4)💰Cost Optimization(4)🛡️Security(3)📱Use Cases(2)

⚡Always-On Agent

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Your Agent Texts You Before It Rains

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A Morning Briefing You Never Have to Ask For

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Your Agent Watches Your Inbox While You Sleep

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It Remembers Your Preferences — Forever

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Your Agent Notices When You Go Quiet

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Price Drops, Stock Alerts, Flight Deals — Monitored 24/7

🔗Connected to Your Life

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Your Calendar, Your Email, Your Agent — All Talking to Each Other

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Managing Your Smart Home From a Text Message

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Your Agent as Your Family's Shared Assistant

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Connecting Your Agent to Your Business Tools

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Talk to It Anywhere — Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, or All Three

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Your Agent Manages Your Files and Photos

⏰Automation

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Set It and Forget It — Scheduled Tasks That Just Run

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Automatic Social Media Monitoring

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Your Agent Backs Up What Matters — Automatically

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Birthday Reminders That Actually Send the Message

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Automated Weekly Reports for Your Team

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Your Agent Watches Your Website and Tells You When It's Down

🔐Your Data, Your Server

🔍 Discovery4 min read

Your Conversations Stay on Your Server

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You Control What Your Agent Can Do

🔍 Discovery4 min read

Your Agent Can't Go Rogue — Here's Why

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Delete Everything With One Command

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Your Agent Runs on a $5/month Server

🔧Real Workflows

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Delegating Research to Sub-Agents While You Work

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Your Agent Posts to Instagram on Schedule

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Monitoring Your Etsy Shop While You Sleep

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Automated Job Applications — Research, Customize, Track

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Your Agent Takes Meeting Notes and Sends the Summary

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Recipe Extraction From Videos — Watch, Transcribe, Save

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Your Personal CRM — Track Every Relationship

🚀Getting Started

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Start on Your Laptop, Not a Server

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Give Your Agent Separate Accounts

🔍 Discovery3 min read

Use Claude Code to Set Up OpenClaw

🔍 Discovery4 min read

Run in Docker for Security + Portability

🧠Memory & Personality

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The Three-File Identity System

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Write Skills, Not "Remember This"

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Craft Your SOUL.md Like a Job Description

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Daily Memory Logs for Continuity

🛠️Skills & Tools

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Understand Tools vs Skills

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Skills Auto-Load by Default — Whitelist Them

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Enable Exec Approval for Safety

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Install Skills from ClawHub Carefully

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Build Custom Skills with SKILL.md

🤖Multi-Agent

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The Orchestrator Pattern

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Run Multiple Isolated Agents in One Gateway

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Use sessions_spawn for Background Work

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STATE.yaml for Parallel Coordination

🤖Automation (Technical)

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The Daily Briefing Setup

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Email Triage Automation

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CI/CD Monitoring via Telegram

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Heartbeats for Proactive Behavior

💰Cost Optimization

🔍 Discovery5 min read

Model Routing: Right Model for the Job

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OpenRouter Auto Model

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Local Models via Ollama Cost $0/Call

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Don't Use Premium Models as Default

🛡️Security

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The Last Mile Is Manual

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Stronger Models Resist Prompt Injection Better

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Run Sandboxed for Unknown Skills

📱Use Cases

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Family Calendar + Grocery + Nanny Hours

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Second Brain: Text Anything, Search Later

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