Think about what you would want an assistant to do. You can teach it do basic tasks using any available API, but then you can give it feedback so it improves.

For example my agent can control home automation via Home Assistant or any other API. My agent contributes to websites and open source projects. When you give it feedback it updates its skill files.

It checks and answers email, can receive and place phone calls, and do general research and monitoring online. I was even playing around with it to create music. The list of things to try is limitless.

I think just like LLMs, people get discouraged when it doesnt one-shot a problem. This technology thrives on feedback. It will make mistakes, your job is to make sure it learns from those mistakes so it doesnt repeat them.

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tcoff91 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I hope none of your accounts are associated with that email address that can be read by an LLM that has access to untrusted input.

OpenClaw lives right in the prompt injection lethal trifecta.

The idea of an OpenClaw instance having the ability to reset passwords on your accounts sounds sketchy as shit to me.

	▲	bryan0 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Of course, you need to be careful about what access you give to your agent. I gave my agent its own email, and I can forward it emails if I need it to read anything in my inbox. Everyone will have their own threshold for what type of access they want to give their agent. some people will give it access to their personal email, bank account, etc, but I wouldn't recommend it yet! But I bet in a couple years this will be standard practice.

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BeetleB 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How are you handling memory? That's what makes it "not work" for most people.

	▲	bryan0 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes memory is a key part. I’m using sqlite and markdown files. Sqlite is so it can easily search its conversation and thoughts by time and full text search. I actually always put the last 5 hours of so I’d conversation into the context. Markdown is for more standard agent instructions, skills, and lessons