#Map openclaw setup

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Hi! I’d appreciate advice on how to structure this in OpenClaw.

I’m building a personal OpenClaw setup, and my immediate goal is practical: map the current setup and maintain a “setup inventory” over time.

Background: this started from Karpathy’s point about LLM-native workflows / “soft programs” — .md skills or playbooks are not just docs or shell-script wrappers, but instructions an agent can execute with judgment: context, permissions, fallbacks, verification, rollback, etc.

What I want first is not a big skill library, but a reliable current-state map:

  • agent capabilities
  • permissions and boundaries
  • channels/integrations/models
  • workspace/project structure
  • setup changes over time
  • what should be updated next
  • rollback path if something breaks

One structure I’m considering:

architecture/
  README.md
  principles.md
  tasks.md
  inventory/
    current-state.md
    capabilities.md
    permissions-and-boundaries.md
    integrations.md
    file-structure.md
    changelog.md
    open-questions.md
  skills/
    map-openclaw-setup.md

Idea:

  • keep it as a pilot first
  • don’t change core files or OpenClaw config yet
  • use map-openclaw-setup.md as an .md playbook for inspecting/updating the inventory
  • update inventory/changelog.md when setup changes

Questions:

  1. Keep this inside a pilot folder first, or put inventory at workspace root?
  2. Should map-openclaw-setup.md live in existing skills/, or inside the pilot until proven useful?
  3. What should a useful setup inventory track so it doesn’t become a markdown junk drawer?
  4. Any OpenClaw-specific gotchas around project context, skill activation, memory, context bloat, permissions, or rollback?

I’m trying not to over-engineer it, but I want a clean way to track the setup as it evolves. New to openclaw so help appreciated!