Personal Agents with OpenClaw

Connect OpenClaw to your models, devices, and services and automate tasks with your own personal AI assistant. Establish clear boundaries for who can use your assistant and what it can access. Build scheduled and event-driven automations that handle emails, calendars, browsers, and even home devices. Use Telegram for remote communication and deploy your agent to the cloud with Railway and Tailscale so you can access it from anywhere. Taught by Steve Kinney on Master.dev.

What you will learn

• Installing and configuring OpenClaw with its desktop app, and connecting hosted, local or subscription-based models
• Writing the Markdown files that define your agent's rules, preferences, personality and standing instructions
• Setting up scheduled automations and condition triggers with webhooks, channels and external events
• Connecting Telegram, and other messaging channels such as Slack, Discord and Signal, to reach your agent remotely
• Troubleshooting with OpenClaw Doctor, and integrating Gmail with a least-privilege OAuth setup
• Securely connecting remote devices, and deploying to a VPS with Railway and Tailscale

Prerequisites

Basic comfort with the terminal and some exposure to AI coding tools. Access to ChatGPT, Claude, or a local model is also required.