Recipes

Practical setups that extend your OpenClaw deployment beyond the basics. Each recipe assumes you’ve completed the relevant phase guides and layers on additional configuration, AGENTS.md instructions, and cron jobs.

Recipes

Recipe	What it does	Prereqs
Knowledge Vault	Persistent knowledge base with semantic search and cron-driven autonomous research	Phases 1–5, search agent
Morning Briefing	Scheduled daily briefing — weather, calendar, inbox, tasks, and news — delivered to your channel	Phases 1–5, search agent

Use Case Ideas

Not every use case warrants a full recipe page. The following are patterns with strong community adoption — enough to get started with the right AGENTS.md instructions and cron jobs on top of the phase guides.

Personal Productivity

Use Case	What it does	Key tools
Personal CRM	Auto-track contacts from Gmail + Calendar, filter newsletters/bots, score by interaction strength, queryable via chat	`gog` skill, `memory_search`, SQLite via `exec`, cron
Meeting → task extraction	Parse transcripts (Fathom, Otter.ai) → extract action items → approval gate → create in Todoist/Linear	`web_fetch`, `memory`, approval in AGENTS.md
Smart inbox triage	Flag urgent email, summarize newsletters into a digest, auto-reply to known senders	`gog` skill, cron, AGENTS.md triage rules
Second brain	Text anything via chat → stored in memory; agent builds a searchable Next.js dashboard on request	Memory tools, `exec`, Telegram/iMessage
Family calendar assistant	Aggregate family calendars → morning briefing; monitor messages for appointment confirmations; pantry inventory from photos	`gog` skill, `image` tool, cron, iMessage

Development & DevOps

Use Case	What it does	Key tools
GitHub PR review	New PR → fetch diff → analyze → notify developer via channel (read-only: `gh pr view`, `gh run view`)	`exec` (gh CLI), `message`, cron or webhook
Self-healing home server	Hourly health checks (Gatus, ArgoCD); auto-restart failing services; page only when auto-remediation fails	`exec` (kubectl/ssh), cron, `message`
CI/CD monitor	Watch build status, detect regressions, post summaries to Slack/Discord	`exec`, `web_fetch`, cron, `message`
Overnight mini-app builder	Brain-dump goals → agent generates + executes daily tasks, including building a small app overnight	`exec`, `browser`, `sessions_spawn`, cron

Multi-Agent Orchestration

Use Case	What it does	Key config
Hub-and-spoke team	Orchestrator agent delegates to specialized workers (Coder, Researcher, Automation). Workers run in Docker with minimal tools	Multiple agents in `agents.list`, `subagents.allowAgents`, Docker sandbox
Autonomous project management	Subagents coordinate via a shared `STATE.yaml` file. Main agent stays thin (strategy only). Workers self-assign, update state, and report back	`sessions_spawn`, `group:fs`, AGENTS.md delegation rules
Multi-agent content factory	Research, writing, and thumbnail agents in separate Discord/Slack channels, each specialized and channel-bound	Bindings, multiple agents, `subagents.allowAgents`

Business & Analytics

Use Case	What it does	Key tools
Nightly business briefing	Multi-persona AI council (GrowthStrategist, RevenueGuardian, SkepticalOperator) reviews business signals and produces ranked recommendations	`sessions_spawn`, cron, AGENTS.md persona definitions
Competitor monitoring	Daily web search on competitor names + products; append findings to a knowledge file; alert on significant changes	`web_search` via search agent, cron, `memory`
Multi-channel customer service	24/7 auto-responses across WhatsApp, Instagram, Email, Google Reviews with escalation rules	Channel bindings, AGENTS.md response rules, `message`
YouTube analytics	Track channel metrics, monitor competitor videos, generate weekly performance charts	`web_fetch`, `exec`, cron, `memory`
Dynamic dashboard	Cron every 15 min spawns parallel sub-agents for GitHub/social/server metrics; aggregates to a database	`sessions_spawn`, `exec`, PostgreSQL/SQLite

Research & Intelligence

Use Case	What it does	Key tools
Multi-source tech news digest	109+ sources (46 RSS + 44 Twitter/X KOLs + 19 GitHub repos + web search), quality-scored and deduplicated	`tech-news-digest` ClawHub skill
Market research → MVP factory	Mine Reddit + X for pain points in any niche (Last 30 Days skill) → rank opportunities → build MVP	`last-30-days` skill, `exec`, `browser`
AI earnings tracker	Track tech/AI earnings reports with automated previews, alerts, and summaries	`web_search` via search agent, cron, `memory`

Infrastructure & Integrations

Use Case	What it does	Key config
n8n credential isolation	Agent calls n8n webhooks for all external API interactions — API keys live in n8n only, never in agent environment. Visual, lockable pipelines	`web_fetch` (webhook calls), Docker Compose (openclaw-n8n-stack ), AGENTS.md workflow conventions
Phone-based assistant	Access your agent via phone call or SMS — calendar, Jira, web search hands-free	ClawdTalk plugin (Telnyx)
AI voice calls (batch)	Call a list of people using an AI persona — guest confirmations, appointment reminders	SuperCall plugin (Twilio + GPT-4o Realtime)

Home Automation

Use Case	What it does	Key tools
Home Assistant control	Natural language device control, automations, and status queries via any channel	Home Assistant add-on, `web_fetch` (HA REST API), `message`
Smart energy monitoring	IoTawatt calibration alerts, anomaly detection, usage reports	`web_fetch`, cron, `memory`
EV charge scheduling	Tesla/EV charge scheduling and status queries via chat	`web_fetch` (Tesla API or TeslaMate), `message`

Contribute a recipe. If you’ve built something that works reliably, the community collection at awesome-openclaw-usecases accepts pull requests. Each entry needs a working setup you’ve tested for at least a day.

Last updated on February 20, 2026