OpenClaw: Your First AI Employee
Build 9 Income-Generating Agents This Weekend
You installed OpenClaw. It just sits there doing nothing useful. This book turns that dead install into a staff of AI agents that run your email, write your content, and send you money while you sleep. 9 working projects, no code required. Second edition: every command re-run against the shipping release, with a free companion repo that installs all of it into your own agent.
Second edition. Turn a dead OpenClaw install into a staff of AI agents. 9 projects across 12 chapters, each with real code, real cost breakdowns, and a deliverable you can test the same day.
Every command in this edition was executed against the shipping release before it went to print: the install path, the config format, the skill format, and the price of every model it tells you to run. The eight skills and eleven scheduled jobs ship as a free companion repo that installs into your own agent with one command.
What You'll Build
100+ tailored applications, two offers, doubled salary, $40 in API credits.
One installer command, the setup wizard, and the approval step most people miss.
Ten fixes mapped to real settings, then a command that grades your work.
A SKILL.md file needs exactly two lines of config. You reuse it nine times.
Four levers: cheap primary, prompt caching, the heartbeat, a second agent.
Auto-triage, response drafts in your voice, morning briefing.
50 sources, a daily briefing, and the dial that sets your own budget.
One idea becomes 35 platform-specific posts a week, scheduled.
Proposals, invoicing, follow-ups. Plus an honest list of what it cannot do.
Real separate agents, each with its own workspace, model, and personality.
Cost spikes, hallucinations, lock-in, and the argument the community is having.
Days 1-30 build, 31-60 automate, 61-90 earn. $3K-$5K per client.
Free Articles from this Book
How to Build Your First OpenClaw Skill in 15 Minutes
Turn an OpenClaw install that just sits there into an assistant that answers questions about your own notes, with one skill you can write in 15 minutes. The skill is a single SKILL.md file with two lines of front matter, and the config.yaml format most tutorials still copy never loads at all.
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How to Have OpenClaw Handle Your Email Before You Wake Up
Wake up to an inbox that's already sorted, with replies drafted in your voice and waiting for a thumbs-up from your phone. It takes one skill file, a mail tool OpenClaw already ships and two scheduled jobs, plus one Google setting that quietly switches the whole thing off after seven days if you miss it.
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How to Run OpenClaw 24/7 for $6 a Month
Keep an OpenClaw agent answering messages and checking in around the clock for about $6 a month, and know the number to the cent before you commit. There is no multi-model router in the product; four settings you already have take the same agent from $19.94 to $5.15.
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How to Build an OpenClaw Research Agent That Briefs You Daily
Get a daily briefing on your industry from an OpenClaw agent that reads 50 sources before you wake up and tells you only what changed since yesterday. It runs about $6.91 a month, set by one dial most people tune backwards, and it starts with a curl check that caught a dead feed when we ran it.
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How to Harden OpenClaw in 45 Minutes and Prove It
Lock down the OpenClaw agent that reads your email and calendar in about 45 minutes, then prove it with one command that prints 0 critical. The list starts with a bug that let any web page you opened reach the gateway on your own laptop.
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