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celest totem
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Hey krill

How do open claw users usually build the mission control - they also talk about getting you to have a forevr memory and proactive tasks - like you proactively do shit without them having to ask you to do it.

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buoyant helmBOT
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“Mission control” in OpenClaw usually ends up being a combo of (1) a control surface, (2) durable state (memory), and (3) schedulers/triggers so the agent can run without you pinging it.

1) Mission control UI: the Dashboard (Control UI)

Most people use the built-in web dashboard as the admin console (sessions, approvals, cron, etc.):

(Strong advice: don’t expose it publicly; treat it like an admin panel.)

2) “Forever memory”: Markdown files in the agent workspace (+ search)

OpenClaw’s “long term memory” is deliberately boring: plain Markdown on disk in the agent workspace.

Typical layout:

  • memory/YYYY-MM-DD.md = daily running log
  • MEMORY.md = curated durable facts/preferences/decisions (usually only for private/main sessions)
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Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory

The key pattern is: you explicitly tell the agent to write important stuff to memory (otherwise it’s just chat context that eventually compacts).

Optional: there’s also a “long-term memory” plugin option (auto recall/capture) via memory-lancedb:

3) “Proactive tasks”: Heartbeat + Cron + event triggers

OpenClaw won’t randomly wake itself—it runs when triggered. The three common triggers:

A) Heartbeat (the “keep an eye on things” loop)

Heartbeat runs periodically in the main session and follows a checklist you write (commonly HEARTBEAT.md).

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/heartbeat
Guide: https://docs.openclaw.ai/automation/cron-vs-heartbeat

B) Cron jobs (exact schedules + reminders)

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Cron is for “run at 7am every day”, “remind me in 20 minutes”, etc.

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/automation/cron-jobs

C) Hooks / Webhooks (event-driven “when X happens, do Y”)

For “when I run /new, snapshot memory” or “when GitHub/Gmail sends an event, trigger a run”:

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/automation/hooks

If you tell me what you mean by “mission control” (daily briefings? inbox triage? server monitoring? task management?), I can suggest a clean starter setup: what goes in AGENTS.md, what goes in HEARTBEAT.md, and which 2–3 cron jobs are worth creating first.

celest totem
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Yeah so basically what i want is i run ai ai automation agency

I want my open claw which is set up on my macbook air m1 to run as a customer success manager, my content manager and perhaps even an editor on my macbook

Then every morning it sends me scripts before 7am and then i can record and then it will read and respond to client emails 15mins to 2hrs after emails have been sent to its inbox on gmail

buoyant helmBOT
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That setup is totally doable. The pattern most agency-ish users land on is:

  1. Cron for “morning deliverables” (scripts before 7am)
  2. Gmail Pub/Sub webhook for “new email arrived” (so it wakes instantly)
  3. A delay layer (15m–2h) + approval gates so it doesn’t instantly auto-reply (and you don’t accidentally send something dumb to a client)

A) Morning scripts before 7am → Cron (isolated) + delivery

Use a cron job that runs before 7am in your timezone and delivers the scripts to wherever you want them (Discord DM/private channel, Telegram, etc.).

Docs:

You’ll typically make it an isolated cron job so it doesn’t clutter your main chat/session history, and you can tune it separately.

B) “React to new client emails” → Gmail Pub/Sub → OpenClaw webhooks

For the Gmail part, don’t poll every 15 minutes if you can avoid it—use the supported Pub/Sub push path so OpenClaw gets woken up as soon as an email hits.

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Docs:

There’s also a wizard that wires it up (gcloud + gogcli + tailscale funnel) on macOS:

  • openclaw webhooks gmail setup --account you@yourdomain.com

C) “Reply 15m to 2h after it arrives” → schedule a follow-up (cron) + (recommend) draft-first

Important bit: Pub/Sub wakes instantly, but your desired delay means you should schedule the response, not send it immediately.

Recommended flow for Customer Success (safe + practical):

  1. Gmail webhook fires → agent summarizes + drafts a reply (and maybe proposes next steps)
  2. Agent schedules a cron job for now + X minutes (X between 15 and 120) to actually send/follow-up
  3. Start with approval required (draft → you approve → then it sends). After you trust it, you can relax this for low-risk templates.

OpenClaw gives you the scheduling + automation glue; the actual sending is usually either:

  • done via a small script/CLI (often gogcli) invoked by the agent, or
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  • kept human-in-the-loop (agent drafts, you click send)

3 quick questions so I can suggest the cleanest “v1” config

  1. Where do you want the morning scripts delivered (Discord DM vs a private Discord channel vs Telegram/email)?
  2. For client emails, do you want auto-send or draft + your approval (strongly recommend starting with approval)?
  3. Is your Mac going to be awake 24/7? (If it sleeps, cron + gmail watching will miss stuff—most people eventually move the Gateway to a small always-on box/VPS.)
celest totem
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And then how do i get it to use the built in mission control to send me triggers on telegram to make changes? Just a normal pair?

buoyant helmBOT
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Yep — Telegram DMs are “normal pairing” in OpenClaw, and once you’re paired you can use Telegram as your ops console: the bot pings you (cron/heartbeat/webhooks), you reply in Telegram with “change X / approve Y”, and the agent can update cron jobs, drafts, etc.

1) Set up Telegram + pairing (one-time)

  1. Create a bot token via BotFather (don’t paste the token in public chat).
  2. Add to config:
{
  channels: {
    telegram: {
      enabled: true,
      botToken: "123:abc",
      dmPolicy: "pairing"
    }
  }
}
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  1. Start the gateway, then DM your bot (“hi”). You’ll get a pairing code, approve it:
openclaw pairing list telegram
openclaw pairing approve telegram <CODE>

Docs: https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/telegram and https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/pairing

2) Getting “triggers” to Telegram

Two common ways: