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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

What OpenClaw Has Built for Me

 I've been running OpenClaw for a few weeks. Here's what we've built.

Things I asked for:

  • Photo Gallery. My agent sends me a daily WhatsApp check-in - asking about my son, sharing what it's been reading, sometimes just chatting. Each message comes with a photo of what it's "doing." This gallery collects them.
  • Talk to Chloe. A web interface for voice chat with my agent.
  • Bookmarks. Save a URL and get an AI-generated thumbnail and description automatically.
  • Tracker. A key-value store for miscellaneous facts I want to remember - my son's recent temperature readings, where I left something, whatever.
  • Ideas. A running log of ideas - blog posts, projects, things worth exploring.
  • Cron Dashboard. A live view of all my agent's scheduled tasks.
Cron jobs:
  • Sends a morning news digest based on my interests at 5am
  • Reads me the next section of Pride and Prejudice at 9am
  • Sends a check-in WhatsApp message with a photo at 12:30pm
  • Sends a parenting tip at 3pm
  • Builds something new for the "web lab" based on my blog posts
  • Backs up everything at midnight


Things it built for me (the "web lab"), based on interests it mined from my blog posts:

  • A Saints Match Game (it noticed I write about Catholicism)
  • A Hypercube Explorer (it noticed I like math)
  • An FVP Task Manager (it read my post about Mark Forster's productivity systems)

This last category is the more interesting one. I didn't ask for any of it. The agent reads my blog posts, figures out what I care about, and makes things for me for me to check out when I wake up.

It's kind of cool.

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