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OpenClaw is a free, open-source AI assistant that runs on your own computer and talks to you in Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp or its web dashboard. You connect your own AI model login or API key. It can browse the web, run scheduled automations and use skills, which are folders with a SKILL.md file.
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OpenClaw follows the AgentSkills format: each skill is a folder with a SKILL.md file. Save one in ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/ and call it with /skill and its name. Read third-party skills first, because the docs call them untrusted code.
Example: /skill meeting-recap Turn these notes into decisions and actions.
Automations are OpenClaw's built-in scheduler. Create a recurring job with openclaw automations create and a cron time, and send the result to a chat channel. Schedules fire only while the Gateway is running.
Example: Every weekday at 7am, summarize overnight updates and post them to Slack.
OpenClaw can control its own separate browser profile and search the web to read public pages. The bundled gog skill connects Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs and Drive search through your own Google Cloud OAuth client.
Example: Search the web for this company's latest news and list the sources with dates.
A recipe is a step-by-step setup you build in OpenClaw yourself. Each one shows what you provide, what you get, and a setup prompt to copy. Examples are illustrative, not recorded results.
Keep your lead pipeline in a sheet from Gmail
Every day your agent reads Gmail, adds new leads to a Google Sheet and keeps each lead's last contact, follow-up date and next step current, then tells you who needs a reply and who has gone quiet.
Track job applicants in a sheet from Gmail
Every day your agent reads Gmail, logs each new job application in a Google Sheet and keeps reply dates current, then tells you which applicants are waiting for your answer.
Plan your LinkedIn outreach in a Google Sheet
Each morning your agent reads your prospect sheet and LinkedIn's emails in Gmail, drafts the invitations, first messages and follow-ups that are due, and tells you who to contact. You send them yourself.
Win back customers who have gone quiet
Every day your agent checks your customer sheet against Gmail, finds customers who have gone quiet and drafts a personal check-in for each one, then tells you who to contact. You send them yourself.
Track time off requests from Gmail in a sheet
Every day your agent reads Gmail, logs your team's time off requests and sick days in a Google Sheet, flags days when too many people are off, and lists the requests waiting for your decision.
Build a 13-week cash flow forecast from your bank balance, invoices and bills
Give today's bank balance, open invoices, bills, payroll and regular costs, and get a week-by-week cash table for the next 13 weeks, the weeks that dip below your cash buffer and what happens if customers pay late. Paste the figures each time, or keep them in a Google Sheet or folder for a weekly refresh. A planning aid, not advice.
Answer customer questions from your FAQ, prices and policies
Get a reply draft for each customer question that cites the FAQ, price list or policy it used, from questions you paste or new customer email in Gmail. Complaints, refunds and questions your documents don't cover go to a person with a hand-off note. Nothing is sent.
A skill is a folder of instructions that OpenClaw can use for a specific task. Add it once, then ask for the task in your own words.
Turn call notes into a recap email that promises only what was agreed, proposed CRM changes and a task list with owners and dates.
Compare accounting records with a clear audit trail, separate uncertain matches, and explain remaining differences.
Combine supplied sources into a clear answer that preserves evidence, disagreement, and uncertainty.
Extract requested fields into a source-linked table without guessing missing or unreadable values.
Check a named company against your customer criteria and return a sourced fit brief.
Turn team notes into a repeatable process with clear owners, decisions, exceptions, and completion checks.
Prepare a focused sales-call brief from meeting notes and customer history, with evidence, questions, and a realistic next step.
Choose what to publish, improve or stop using audience evidence, existing content and production capacity.
Write page-specific website copy with a message map, supported claims and visible commercial terms.
Sort support tickets by evidence-based priority with draft first replies, and package cases that need another team into a clear handoff.
Turn a supplied dataset into a readable chart with reproducible steps and observations supported by the data.
Organize proposed product work into a roadmap that makes priorities, dependencies, and unanswered decisions clear.
We have not run these setups ourselves. Recipes are written from public OpenClaw documentation, and their examples are illustrative.
| OpenClaw | Hermes Agent | Claude Code | n8n | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your own computer or server, with a terminal UI, a web dashboard and chat apps such as Telegram and Slack | Your own computer or server: Linux, Apple Silicon Mac, Windows or WSL2, through a terminal, desktop app or chat apps | Terminal, IDE extensions, Claude Desktop and the web | n8n Cloud or your own server |
| Connected apps | Gmail, Google Calendar, Sheets, Docs and Drive search through the bundled gog skill; a built-in browser and web search; Slack, WhatsApp and other chat channels | Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Sheets and Docs through the bundled Google Workspace skill; built-in web search and browser; Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp and other chat apps | Your project files, MCP connectors and skills | App nodes such as Gmail, Google Sheets, Slack, HubSpot and Jira, plus HTTP requests |
| Scheduling | Built-in automations with cron times, intervals or one-time runs; the Gateway must be running for them to fire | Built-in cron jobs, created in plain language, with /cron add or with hermes cron create; the gateway must be running | Yes: routines in the cloud or desktop scheduled tasks | Yes: the Schedule Trigger, for published workflows |
| Plan | Free and open source (MIT), with no hosted tier; you pay your model provider or reuse a Claude Code or Codex login | Free and open source (MIT); you pay only for model usage, through your own provider key or Nous Portal | Claude subscription or Anthropic Console account | n8n Cloud plans or the free self-hosted Community edition, plus model costs |
| Countries | No country limits in the official docs; your model provider's terms apply | No country limits in the official docs; your model provider's terms apply | Where Claude is available | n8n Cloud terms apply; self-hosting runs where you host it |
Yes. OpenClaw is open source under the MIT license and has no paid tier or hosted service. You pay for the AI model it uses, through an API key or an existing Claude Code or Codex login.
Yes. OpenClaw follows the AgentSkills format, and our skills have the name and description it needs. Save the SKILL.md in ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/<skill-name>/, start a new session and call it with /skill and the skill's name.
Through the bundled gog skill. It needs the gog command-line tool and your own Google Cloud OAuth client, then you add your account with the services you allow, such as Gmail and Calendar. The same skill can send email, so keep recipes draft-only.
Not by default. Commands run without approval unless you set tools.exec.mode to ask or allowlist, and agents with message access can send messages. Change these settings before you connect real accounts.
Yes, with automations. Run openclaw automations create with a cron time, such as "0 7 * * *" for 7am every day, and choose where the result goes. Schedules fire only while the Gateway is running.
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