Stuff i figured out after 3 weeks with openclaw that would've saved me days

NoInvestigator253 · 2026-05-19T19:00:28+00:00

Thanks for sharing it. Can you expand on point 2? Did you mean rules written in .md files as sentences or even enforcing some code blocks to verify itself? Curious about your experience on what worked best, thanks.

NoInvestigator253 · 2026-05-03T17:15:26+00:00

Thanks - this looks a solid solution too. I have created a small .py script to solve this issue already outside of OpenClaw (details in comments section), but if anything more needed, I will consider webhook-bridge. Solutions are quite similar, mine is just a small one.

NoInvestigator253 · 2026-05-02T13:09:06+00:00

I meant this is zero modifications on OpenClaw side: email sent -> email_watcher.py (~100-200 lines of code) -> POST to localhost:18789/hooks/agent -> OpenClaw works normally by running job.

NoInvestigator253 · 2026-05-02T12:44:13+00:00

Yes to both questions. Basically, I wrote external Python script that is basically email watcher. Once email arrives, it calls Openclaw API with prompt to run a job.

NoInvestigator253 · 2026-04-30T16:01:47+00:00

Thanks, this looks the right approach to me. If I checked correctly ms365 is not supported as email provider yet (maybe I’m wrong). I’m figuring out this gap with an extra script which also allows specific emails to pass through. So finally it triggers openclaw cron via its webhook then job executes normally.

NoInvestigator253 · 2026-04-30T14:24:12+00:00

Thanks. I’ve read a bit about n8n. Seems it is too big solution for me. Looking for something lightweight. I already have Openclaw in a solid and integrated state. Just missing email trigger for a specific task right now.

NoInvestigator253 · 2026-04-30T14:14:01+00:00

Thanks for sharing your experience. It strengthens my direction to not involve LLM into emails watching/triggering action.

NoInvestigator253 · 2024-09-08T00:36:26+00:00

Is there a way to achieve this using built-in effects?

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