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Building a Complete Personal Operations Agent

OpenClaw Academy · Part 3, Issue 24

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Aug 06, 2026
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Part 3 has covered channels, voice, morning briefing, and inbox triage as separate components. Issue 24 assembles them into a single production deployment: a personal operations agent that runs 24/7, responds to messages across channels, delivers proactive briefings on schedule, and triages your inbox without reading full email bodies.

This is the Part 3 capstone. Every vault asset from Issues 18–23 is either used directly or referenced. The agent described here is the one I run on my own VPS.


The complete skill set

https://github.com/sysdr/openclaw-academy/tree/main/part-3/issue-24

A personal operations agent needs exactly these skills — no more. Each one is in the vault from a previous issue:

Always-on background workflows (TaskFlow):

  • overnight-brief-prep.yaml (Issue 22) — midnight briefing preparation

  • Heartbeat → morning-brief-delivery-skill.md (Issue 22) — 7:30am delivery

Reactive skills (respond to messages):

  • github-reasoning.md (Issue 10) — GitHub notifications and PR triage

  • filesystem-reasoning.md (Issue 10) — file read/write within scoped directories

  • inbox-triage-skill.md (this issue) — email subject triage, headers only

  • calendar-check-skill.md (this issue) — check today’s and tomorrow’s calendar

Memory skills:

  • session-recall.md (Issue 12) — loads recent episodic memory at session start

  • semantic-curation.md (Issue 12) — writes structured entries to MEMORY.md

Safety skills:

  • scope-guard-skill.md (this issue) — explicitly defines what the agent will not do

Total: 9 skills. Well under the 15–20 context saturation ceiling. Deliberately conservative.


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