OpenClaw personal agent setup
The author runs OpenClaw on an old MacBook Air, talks to it through Slack, and set up a daily morning brief and a task dashboard.
A working personal agent that sends an 8am brief and updates a vibe-coded Kanban dashboard in real time as it works.
Overview
How it was set up
OpenClaw on a wiped old MacBook Air, chat via Slack and Telegram, connected to OpenAI and Gemini keys, Notion, Brave search, Nano Banana. Dashboard built with Converge and Convex.
Worth knowing
Insecure by default, since it holds API keys and can reach everything on its host machine. The subreddit scan in the morning brief broke.
A prompt to start from
Send me a morning brief every morning at [time] my time. Include local weather, trending videos and stories on [interests], my tasks for today from [todo list], and tasks you can take off my plate.
Written by Agentic Feats from the source. Not the author's exact prompt.
Sources 1
History
- Source published
- 2026-02-17
- Added to Agentic Feats
- 2026-10-13
- Pick
- No
- Markdown copy
- /c/openclaw-personal-agent-setup.md
More in setup and meta
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