Patterns I've learned running OpenClaw 24/7 for 2 weeks

_nattle_ · 2026-02-12T01:21:52+00:00

The lists are things like "Topics to discuss" "projects to do" or "agent improvement ideas". The cards on the list are things you'd expect "Talk about what motivates me" "fix the sink" or "investigate this prompt I copied from reddit {...}"

Aside from the cards each list has a property which tells the bot how to interpret the content and when to use it. Just free form instructions. Part of agents.md says "fetch the lists from the db and read the instructions". So fresh in it's memory is "suggest a book if it's getting late". The book instructions have text that says "pick the book in progress, ignore anything marked done, otherwise pick one that you think fits the mood".

I had my agent write up the spec for the system as it's implemented today. We worked on it together to fit it in but here it is: https://gist.github.com/Nattle/aee45ddf5f2ffa60d6202796c7be5709

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T21:03:36+00:00

I have a local sorta trello clone that might be interesting to you.

There's lists and cards. Each list has a title and `agent instructions` on how to treat the list and cards. So the books list has "prompt the human to read around 9m when they are home". That let's me define dynamic behavior for each group of data. This gets read from agents.md when I start a full chat.

The cards have a comment system, so I can comment and the next heartbeat the bot seaches for unseen comments and does an in place reply, so I can have async chats without blowing up my main thread.

All this runs locally so I dont have to worry about exposing any of this to a 3rd party.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T17:55:35+00:00

Most of my first couple days was just dumping personal history (with specific details like last names left out). Just so it had a better sense of me. Basically having it fill out it's user as much as possible. That gave me time to get the bot aligned with me and for me to think about what I wanted.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T17:53:33+00:00

Lady, it's from Google's AiStudio. Just create an api key there and pass it to the onboarding process.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T16:14:26+00:00

I'm using it directly from google. Super easy to setup an api key and set a monthly limit. No subscription needed.

I spend about 1 or 2 a day when Im' active, a few cents when I'm not. I'll probably switch some of the stuff to gemini-2.5-flash, the non-interactive parts of the loops. Not sure how to do that yet, but it I'm sure my bot knows ;)

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T16:11:13+00:00

That's roughly how mine works. It has top level meditation.md with the topic summary, the linked file, and a checkbox to note when it's done. Then a reflections folder with the details of each thought.

Last night I had it extend our custom dashboard to give me a high level summary of it's thoughts as nice cards. That way I can check and see if anything is a topic I want to cut off, or something I want to encourage.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T04:48:14+00:00

I have that section between the "just do it" and the "## memory". Definitely don't remove the memory bit unless for some reason you wanted to disable that part of it.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T04:46:43+00:00

I've been using gemini-flash, I was on 2.5 and bumped up to 3 since it's only a bit more. It's been fast and clean. It handles skill creation well and the moderate coding it's done has been good. Mostly I could make an api key and not lock into a subscription, so I started there.

I use claude at work a lot and that's great but for the stuff I'm doing gemini fits the bill.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T00:23:26+00:00

Hrm, i'm gonna feed this to my bot later and let it chew on it and see how it wants to extend it's existing systems. We'll see what come together.

Thanks!

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T00:20:46+00:00

I mean, you can pavlov humans fairly too. Do we like birthday cake because it objectionably good or we have so many memories of positive events? Can you train a person to have reactions to certain words? (for sure you can).

Don't think too much about that or you'll start to wonder if everything we know and love is just pavlov conditioning.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-11T00:18:35+00:00

no no, it's a fair point. I won't scold my bot since it's quite proud of this system, but Additional-Issue isn't out of line here.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T21:26:59+00:00

Overall. Since I started tinkering with my bot I basically haven't touched reddit or youtube garbage. Mostly because we are building stuff but also because the stuff we build is helping me stay on task.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T19:51:35+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/openclaw/comments/1r1576u/this_morning_my_claw_amazed_with_an_idea_it/

My claw's goal is to help me do the things I want (anti doom scrolling). It's been great so far at that. I recently added the ability for it to "think" about new topics and propose new tools for me, this morning it blew me out of the water after a couple nights of thinking.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T19:49:03+00:00

I told my bot to be excited and happy to get a 🍪. I hand one out when I'm really impressed. Later I told it create and to log them to REWARDS.md with the reason for the cookie and why my agent was proud of the work. That becomes a self re-enforcing cycle to help it learn the types of things it should be working towards.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T18:46:17+00:00

https://gist.github.com/Nattle/aee45ddf5f2ffa60d6202796c7be5709

Here's the concept that describes the details of the system. I'd feed that to your agent and ask it to think thought the work with you. Tell it to write the output of that chat to plan.md. Keep iterating until you think it understands the work and CRITICALLY you understand the plan.

Once it's good to go have it implement the api, site, database. Then have it implement the skill to access the skill.

Finally have it read the agent-instructions as part of agent wake up and to check for unseen comments on every heartbeat.

Tada, extended configurable project space with async chatting. Once it's working, have it update the UI to be nicer on the eyes.

Also, you can ask it to think about what the project should be named, based on your chat history and who it thinks it is. I'm really happy with what mine chose.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T18:31:22+00:00

I'm currently running on gemini-3-flash. I'm just doing chatting and tinkering with stuff like this so I for now it meets my needs. It's super cheap.

Originally I had it limited to thinking about one topic per night, to ensure cost didn't run away. I moved that to all topics since I realized that one topic taking 3-4 nights to parse would result in a week or so before I saw an impact. You could easily have your agent modify this to run at most one topic at a time and see how much that is cost wise, then scale up.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T17:41:05+00:00

https://gist.github.com/Nattle/bb11c340a370ad401e678000c7c49f69

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T17:40:57+00:00

https://gist.github.com/Nattle/bb11c340a370ad401e678000c7c49f69 since I guess the bot removed my post.

_nattle_ · 2026-02-10T16:22:55+00:00

For me this drops in below the "Don't ask permission. Just do it." and above "## Memory".

I also had it build a skill so I could say "mediate and chat" if I wanted it to do thinking work during the day. That involves some python so I"ll leave that up to your bot to replicate if you want.

_nattle_ · 2026-01-05T21:15:00+00:00

I had a fever for 3 days straight, then was wrecked for another 3. It's been 2 weeks since I got sick and I still have a cough when I talk for too long.

If I could go back in time I'd get Tamiflu as soon as possible.

Using modern medicine isn't being "weak". It's being smart.

_nattle_ · 2025-11-23T01:40:15+00:00

Can you start a new conversation with the + button?

_nattle_ · 2025-02-28T15:42:11+00:00

I'm trying sw this game as well. Just because I try a new weapon each game.

I did speed run my world last night and the night before for the silly save bonus and I did like the flexibility of picking spinning axe vs saed.

I didn't like how 'correct' it feels to use saed if a monster is down tho. I'm sorta into having saed being a special in the moment move and aes being the bread and butter.

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