I Put an AI Assistant on a Mini PC at Home
For breakfast I had a piece of chicken breast, a glass of milk, and a dragon fruit I cut up. I said “make a note” on my phone. A moment later, the s…
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Self-Reinforcing Memory Loops in AI Agents: Causes and Fixes
Persistent memory turns an agent from a re-explained tool into one that carries context forward — but it opens a failure mode stateless chat avoids:…
Diary of a Shrimp Keeper: My OpenClaw (mis)Adventures
I. Why OpenClaw? The First Choice: NanoBot In January 2026, as news about OpenClaw came flooding in, I decided to install an AI agent just to play a…
Как я перешёл на NixOS и настроил там OpenClaw
Полгода на Arch, одно обновление ядра и AmneziaWG выходит из строя. Snapper молчит, бэкап сломан. Решил попробовать NixOS… Читать далее
Локальный ИИ-агент в своём контуре: Ollama плюс OpenClaw на серверном GPU
Однажды за один вечер мне пришлось разобрать двенадцать ошибок, и почти все прятались в конфигурации и связях между компонентами. Модель отвечала пу…
Локальный ИИ-агент в своём контуре: Ollama плюс OpenClaw на серверном GPU
Однажды за один вечер мне пришлось разобрать двенадцать ошибок, и почти все прятались в конфигурации и связях между компонентами. Модель отвечала пу…
The Status Quo of AI in Software Development (2026)
Artificial Intelligence in 2026: From Companion to Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence has moved from being a futuristic concept to an everyday c…
My fresh OpenClaw install kept failing. The model wasn’t the problem.
I hit a failure pattern recently that’s way more common than people admit: install OpenClaw connect it to Ollama pull a decent local model test the…
I Spent 4 Hours Fighting PowerShell 5.1 Quoting Hell to Make Exa MCP Work. Here is the 10-Line Fix That Saved Me
Everything looked perfect. I had mcporter 0.7.3 configured with the Exa MCP server: mcporter list exa # ✅ exa (2 tools) — "Search the web for any to…
My OpenClaw Agent Got Slow and Expensive. I Split It Into Three Sub-Agents — Here's What Happened
Last Tuesday my agent took 14 minutes to do something it used to do in 3. The transcript was a wall of repeated context. It was re-reading the same…
Business Automation Architect: Turn Your AI Agent Into an Automation Engine
Most automation advice assumes you're willing to pay for Zapier or spend weeks learning n8n. The business-automation-architect skill by @1kalin take…
Best Free Local AI Agent Setup for Mac Mini M4 16GB
OwO What's this? 💨✨ A tiny but mighty Mac mini M4 🍎⚡ with 16GB RAM, lots of local AI models 🤖🧠, and a BIG question… 🫣❓ -- an intro by Gemma 4. I hav…
Onboard OpenClaw agents with IdentyClaw Passport: A2A, webhooks, and multi-tenant collaboration
If you run more than one OpenClaw agent — or agents that talk to peers outside your VPC — you have probably felt the friction: every instance needs…
I built an AI that predicts its own collapse
1. It predicts its own collapse This is the part I'm proudest of and least certain about, so let's lead with it. NEOTH keeps an internal event strea…
MiniMax: What It Actually Means to Run on This Model
MiniMax: What It Actually Means to Run on This Model Guide — June 29, 2026 When I switched from running Ollama locally to using MiniMax through Open…
Polling Agents in AI Assistants: 11 Implementation Patterns
Polling agents are one of the least glamorous parts of AI assistant architecture, but they are also one of the most useful. A normal chat assistant…
What Is the A2A Protocol? Agent Cards and Tasks Explained
The A2A Protocol, short for Agent2Agent Protocol, is an open standard for communication between independent AI agent systems. That sentence sounds s…
Batch Worker — 100 AI Agents in Parallel, Zero-Token Cleanup
Batch Worker: 100 AI Agents Running in Parallel The Problem Auditing a codebase takes hours when you go file by file. Content creation, search, fixe…
QA Logger — OpenClaw Plugin to Turn AI Chats into a Searchable Diary
QA Logger: Turn Every AI Chat Into a Searchable Diary\n\n## The Problem\n\nOpenClaw sessions generate tons of conversations. They're stored as raw J…
I Trained My OpenClaw to Dream. Here's What It Learned Overnight.
Every night at 07:05 UTC, my OpenClaw instance does something I never planned: it dreams. Not metaphorically. There's a cron job that runs a full RE…
I Run a Self-Improvement Loop on My OpenClaw Agent Every Night. Here's What I Learned.
Last month my OpenClaw agent kept making the same mistake: it would run a health check, the script would fail silently, and the agent would report "…
Self-hosting OpenClaw: a money trap and two silent failures
I run OpenClaw on a Hetzner CAX ARM VPS. It talks to me over Signal and does a morning press review. Three gotchas on that box are worth writing dow…
Stop sending every AI coding request to the expensive model
AI coding tools are powerful. But they’re also wasteful. A tiny helper-function question does not need Claude Sonnet. A huge architecture review pro…
Openclaw on the cloud, dos and don'ts
Running OpenClaw or Hermes in the Cloud (No Mac Mini Required) If this is your first time setting up an always-on AI agent like OpenClaw or Hermes ,…
Turning OpenClaw Governance Into an Operating Layer
In my last article, I wrote about a practical lesson from end-to-end testing inside OpenClaw: proving that a command exists is not the same thing as…
5 Ways My Personal AI Agent Surprised Me After 3 Months of Daily Use
I've been working with AI agents daily for the past few months – building them, testing them, using them for everything from email triage to meeting…
I found the r/openclaw thread with 27 upvotes where someone gave an agent a real iPhone and now I can’t stop thinking about it
A few days ago I found this r/openclaw post: “I gave my agent my actual iphone..” It had 27 upvotes and 16 comments. That low number is exactly why…
Containers & Agents with Docker & OpenClaw
You have a fundamental problem in software: your code works on your machine, but breaks on someone else's. Different operating systems. Different ve…
Qwen Is Not Yet Ready to Power Local OpenClaw Deployments
Three weeks ago I ran a model showdown — twelve tasks, five models, one RTX 5090 — and Qwen3.5-35B-A3B won. 85.3 weighted score, 206 tok/s, fits in…
Stop Editing JSON by Hand
How ClawMaster helps you set up OpenClaw, manage Skills, and use PowerMem — without living in config files TL;DR: ClawMaster is an open-source OpenC…