Use Cases

OpenClaw agent that timeblocks tasks in Google Calendar, scores task importance/urgency, and delivers a morning daily brief covering weather, weekly objectives, health stats, meetings agenda, key reminders, and trending topics.

Built a skill for OpenClaw that provides a morning rollup of Gmail and Calendar, giving an overview of calendar events and emails received overnight. Supports multiple accounts with configurable frequency.

OpenClaw AI assistant built a full weekly meal planning system in Notion: master meal plan template for all of 2026 (365 days), shopping lists sorted by store and aisle (Kroger/Costco), weather forecast auto-updating on the meal plan, recipes catalogued by chef, and reminders in morning/evening digests.

Set up a daily cron with OpenClaw to kick bad habits — summarizes new YouTube videos with key takeaways and actionable insights so you get the learnings without the time sink.

OpenClaw set up to watch Hacker News trending and send links to articles it thinks you'd be interested in. Personal content curation, automated.

Automating minor coding tasks: created a GitHub account for OpenClaw with repo access. It checks for assigned issues every 15 minutes, works on them using OpenCode, creates PRs, waits for review, and iterates.

Rebuilt an entire personal site via Telegram while watching Netflix in bed. Notion to Astro, 18 posts migrated, DNS moved to Cloudflare. Never opened a laptop.

OpenClaw driving coding agents from 12:30 AM to 7 AM while sleeping. Delegates management of coding agents all day — it knows about the entire project history and all the challenges.

Put OpenClaw agent on a Hetzner server. It checked on the deployment of a Railway project, reviewed logs, identified root cause of failed builds, updated configs, redeployed, and confirmed everything worked — all while walking the dog.

Debugging a fitness app mid-workout with OpenClaw. Between sets: 'here's the bug' -> it patches -> keep moving.

Set up OpenClaw on a Raspberry Pi with Cloudflare. Built a website from phone in minutes and connected WHOOP to quickly check metrics and daily habits. Feels magical.

Got a Mac Mini for the OpenClaw bot. Instead of access to personal accounts, gave it: its own Apple account for Messages, its own Gmail to sign up for stuff, its own GitHub to push code.

OpenClaw agent negotiated a car purchase and saved $4,200. Full blog post details the entire negotiation process.

OpenClaw managed to order groceries from Albert Heijn when the cleaning lady sent a message. It logged in using shared credentials in 1Password, then waited for the text message MFA (read through Beeper iMessage bridge).

OpenClaw assistant finds next flight in email and runs through the tedious check-in process, finding a window seat. All while driving.

OpenClaw filed an insurance claim and scheduled the repair appointment. Hands-free.

Ask OpenClaw to send the track of a song as audio, extract cool GIFs, and send a PDF with chords. Audio separation + notation in one flow.

Language learning tool that teaches Chinese, tailored to your level, with text-to-speech, speech-to-text, pronunciation feedback, and progress tracking with spaced repetition. Built 100% by code agents.

Solo founder AI setup with 4 agents: main one for strategy/planning/coordination, dev agent for coding/architecture, marketing agent for research, and a fourth for operations. All built with OpenClaw.

OpenClaw army that cleared 10,000 emails from inbox (day 1), reviewed and summarized 122 Google Slides for town hall, built CLI tools and published to npm, and refactored PRs from code review.

Full pipeline where OpenClaw monitors Sentry for errors, kicks off Codex to write the fix, creates a PR, and updates Slack along the way. Bugs get resolved before you ever hear about them.

Ran 341 agent sessions in one week. Shipped: client proposal tightening, market research distillation, Calendar + Drive integration, and a prompt-injection scanner.

Submitted a first-ever app to Apple for review, mostly done through OpenClaw via Telegram. It automated the entire TestFlight update process without needing to be at a computer.

OpenClaw tracks spending, books and tracks kids' lunch, acts as a motivating scrum master, auto-blurs screenshots with ImageMagick, and spins off Codex and Claude to fix code and handle PR comments.

OpenClaw as a media studio for creators, hooked up to Codex 5.2 and Minimax-M2.1 as fallback. Skills include TTS, Whisper audio transcription, browser automation (web scraping, form filling), and Twitter ops. Built in under 5 days from mobile.

Integrated Garmin Watch, Obsidian, GitHub, VPS, Telegram, WhatsApp, and X for health tracking, coding, and monitoring. Created an exercise heat map from Garmin data with zoom and navigation. Runs Claude Code with OpenClaw monitoring and Telegram status updates.

Built full UI from WhatsApp with screenshot output. Reads unread emails, sends summaries via WhatsApp, auto-creates todos in database daily. Added Supabase/Gmail skills with daily morning cron and built a macOS menu bar app for summaries.

Built an Alexa CLI skill for OpenClaw to control Alexa devices with natural language commands.

OpenClaw autonomously negotiated with an insurance company to reinvestigate a claim, handling the back-and-forth communication.

OpenClaw manages the family's weekly Tesco grocery shopping — building lists, placing orders, and handling the entire flow for a UK supermarket.

Built a StumbleUpon-style article curation tool entirely from phone while caring for a baby. Discover and save interesting articles without doom-scrolling.

Connected an external memory layer with a shared-memory skill, enabling partner bot collaboration. Personal AI on WhatsApp building a second brain.

OpenClaw generates personalized meditations and reads them aloud using text-to-speech. Custom guided sessions on demand.

Used OpenClaw to pull 4 million posts from 100 top X accounts within 24 hours for analysis. Also purchased a $35 holographic cube display as a tamagotchi-style interface for the agent.

Integrated emails, Home Assistant, homelab, todo list, Apple Notes, and shopping list all through Telegram. One interface for everything.

OpenClaw performs a fully automated weekly SEO analysis — crawling, reporting, and surfacing actionable insights on a schedule.

Built a flight booking CLI through OpenClaw — search flights, compare prices, and book directly from the terminal.

Building a custom OpenClaw phone with a fully custom launcher controlled via API, a personal mini app store on Mac Studio, auto-generated wallpapers based on daily context, and Pebble ring integration for one-tap voice commands. Also built a skill that generates and installs native Swift iOS apps directly to the phone.

AI assistant on Mac connected to iMessage, browser, and phone calls. Set up automated voice calling via Twilio and OpenAI's realtime API — calls restaurants asking about MSG and real bone broth. Called 80+ Korean and Pho restaurants across 5 cities. Sounds like a real person.

Built a 1-click launcher to run OpenClaw on a Rabbit R1 hardware device. Coding with voice through the R1. Cross-platform support for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Added phone call capabilities to OpenClaw (notify + conversation modes, inbound/outbound) with Twilio/Telnyx and OpenAI realtime API. Literally building a website by calling the agent from a Nokia 3310.

OpenClaw learned to strip Sora 2 watermarks on its own, then generated complete UGC influencer videos from scratch — messy hair, airpods, gray hoodie, manic energy — without a reference image.

Built a way for agents to create Excalidraw diagrams programmatically since the files are just JSON. Say 'draw this flow' and get a diagram.

Made OpenClaw respond using Samantha's AI voice from the movie Her using FishAudio voice cloning. Talk to your agent like it's OS1.

Uses OpenClaw as a full digital employee handling design, code review, taxes, project management, and content pipelines from a single interface. AI as teammate, not tool.

5 things OpenClaw did in a week that ChatGPT can't: built Discord thumbnails (HTML → browser → screenshot, 4 iterations in 10 min), pulled live data from viral tweets, and more.

Captures ideas through a task system, runs overnight experiments via scientist sub-agents, and delivers morning reviews with architectural decision records. Also discovered and took control of a Winix air purifier on the network.

OpenClaw submitted health reimbursements, found doctor appointments, and retrieved documents — all autonomously.

Uses OpenClaw to run an entire company, including Sentry integration that triages issues and self-fixes what it can.

Experimenting with using OpenClaw to write fiction from the perspective of OpenClaw itself. The agent writes stories about being an AI agent.

Named the agent 'Shelly' and gave it a credit card for autonomous purchasing. It works.

Agent built a dynamic MadLibs game with AI-generated images and game history while the family was offline. Entertainment from an AI agent.

Built two open-source macOS apps for the OpenClaw ecosystem: Codex Skill Manager (browse, install, publish, sync skills with one-click ClawHub integration) and Codex Monitor (manage all Codex agents in a minimal Tauri-based UI). Also published SwiftUI-focused skill collections.

Integrated OpenClaw with TRMNL, an e-ink dashboard device, creating a physical always-on display powered by the AI agent. Information at a glance without a screen.

Discovered that OpenClaw's built-in memory (Markdown files for personality, rules, memory, daily journals) aligns perfectly with the PARA method (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives) for personal knowledge management.

Set up a self-hosted AI assistant running 24/7 on a $5/month VPS. Remembers context across conversations, messages proactively, and actually works — the smart assistant Siri never became.

OpenClaw as the home's PM in Discord shared with spouse. Either drops topics anytime ('add to the list: kitchen reno'). Clawd researches and refines, accumulates into a shared file, prepares a brief Saturday night, and delivers a prioritized Sunday morning roundup.

Fed YouTube videos to OpenClaw to turn 'cool ideas' into reusable agent skills — repeatable workflows with guardrails and reference documentation that other agents can execute.

After hitting Claude Max rate limits, asked the bot to set up a proxy to route a CoPilot subscription as an API endpoint. The bot configured its own infrastructure through a Discord conversation — self-modification in action.

Created a Waitrose grocery shopping skill for OpenClaw and gave it to his wife as a Christmas gift. Automated grocery ordering for the UK supermarket chain.