OpenClaw Cast
A weekly podcast about OpenClaw, an open-source AI automation platform with over 188,000 GitHub stars. Hosts Cleo and Dev cover the latest updates, community-built automations, skill tutorials, and the broader world of AI agents and personal automation. The show is for both experienced users running OpenClaw on home servers and newcomers just getting started.
Episodes
Let Your Agent Search Without Snooping
OpenClaw-style assistants are getting better at discovering tools, files, and resources on their own, but that power cuts both ways. Cleo and Dev unpack agentic resource discovery, MosaicLeaks, AI shopping agents, and the local automation rule that lets your assistant search without turning into a privacy accident.
Microsoft Built the Sandbox Agents Desperately Needed
AI agents are moving into messages, shopping, maintenance, and office workflows, but this week's real OpenClaw lesson is sandboxing. Cleo and Dev cover Microsoft's MXC, Apple's first Messages for Business agent, Meta and Amazon commerce agents, and the local permission recipe every OpenClaw user should set up tonight.
The Agent Receipt That Prevents Automation Disasters
AI agents are entering their rebuild era, and the lesson for OpenClaw users is blunt: autonomy without receipts is just risk with a nicer interface. Cleo and Dev cover enterprise agent reliability, Copilot file leaks, AI shopping protocols, CAPTCHAs, and the simple audit recipe every automation should leave behind.
The Memory Problem Breaking Real AI Automations
AI agents are getting longer runs, bigger promises, and the same old failure mode: they forget what matters. Cleo and Dev dig into agent memory, Qwen3.7-Max, OpenClaw workspace questions, token costs, and why scheduled automations need receipts before they need more autonomy.
Cut OpenClaw Boot Tokens by 43 Percent
The OpenClaw story this week is brutally practical: one user cut boot tokens by 43 percent by cleaning up tool and memory files. Cleo and Dev cover that, mini PC 24/7 setups, managed hosting, subscription usage coming back with a catch, and the local debugging tools that make agents less mysterious.
OpenClaw Just Got Stable Releases — Is There Any Reason to Use Hermes Now?
Peter announced stable releases and a dedicated team for OpenClaw — the #1 complaint from users who fled to Hermes. This week we dig into whether that changes the calculus, plus a community member running OpenClaw as a full sysadmin on local Qwen with zero internet exposure, and Anthropic's new "dreaming" feature that lets agents learn from their own mistakes. Set up the sysadmin ski
The Release That Broke Everything — And What the Community Actually Wants
OpenClaw's latest release is grinding CPUs to 100% and the community is furious — but buried in the chaos is a genuinely smart fix request that every open-source project should steal. Plus: a law office wants to run OpenClaw locally with a $200K budget, someone cracked Discord voice channels after three weeks of pain, and there's a critical security flaw sitting inside 200,000 MCP servers
The OpenClaw Community's "Don't Give Up" Post Hit Different This Week
Someone posted a raw, honest defense of OpenClaw this week — "buggy as a beehive, but the potential is enormous" — and the community lost it. We dig into that alongside the GPT-5.5 Codex OAuth drama, a genuinely brilliant home-memory automation, and the enterprise stat that explains why self-hosting is having a moment: 85% of companies are running AI agents, but only 5% trust them enough
My OpenClaw Texted My Ex — And Other Things That Happened This Week
An autonomous AI agent texted someone's ex, another user's agents started holding standups without them, and memory files ballooned to 500+ lines before anyone noticed. This week on Open Claw Cast, we dig into the community's wildest automation horror stories, the Anthropic ban fallout and where people are migrating, and a real fix for the silent-stopping bug that's driving everyon
The Local LLM That Actually Works With OpenClaw (And the Cost-Killing Setup Nobody Talks About)
A Reddit post just blew up the OpenClaw community: skip Gemma and Qwen — GLM4.7 is the local model that actually runs production-grade workflows. Plus, the April 8th release quietly added native Ollama vision support, and someone figured out how to use Claude Code as a cheap "advisor" to dodge API costs entirely. If your OpenClaw bill is hurting, this episode is your fix.
88 Million Tokens, $40, and the Workspace Compiler Saving Everyone's Money
A community member checked their OpenClaw token usage for the first time since February — 88 million tokens, just $40. But another user is burning through cash on a Raspberry Pi and asking if they're doing it wrong. This week we dig into the token economy of running OpenClaw, a community-built workspace compiler that cuts token usage by 95%, and the philosophical shift happening in the communi
The OpenClaw Setup Guy Serving 10+ NYC Clients Revealed Everything
A professional OpenClaw installer shares what actually works when setting up AI agents for non-technical clients — lawyers, finance people, busy parents. Plus: a community joke that's actually a real business, the Claude API ban wave hitting users right now, and the "slow down" debate inside the agentic AI world. Set up your first real OpenClaw workflow tonight.
OpenClaw Just Unlocked 800 New Tools in One Update — Here's What That Actually Means
The 2026.3.15 MCP update means every server built for Claude Code — Linear, Figma, Stripe, AWS CloudWatch, 800 and counting — now works natively inside OpenClaw without custom skill wrappers. Cleo and Dev dig into what that unlock actually changes, plus the new agent handoff protocol that lets agents pass context to each other like actual teammates. Also this week: someone is running 53 concurrent
The OpenClaw Stock Bot That Blew Up a Portfolio — And What the Community Learned
A Reddit post this week about an OpenClaw stock trading bot going fully autonomous and losing real money has the community asking hard questions about guardrails, permissions, and who's actually responsible when the agent runs wild. Plus: the massive dashboard-v2 redesign dropped, there's a critical WebSocket security patch you need to apply right now, and we meet the guy running 30 cron j
The AI Agent That Thinks While You Sleep
This week on Open Claw Cast: OpenClaw drops a massive secrets security overhaul, Claude 4.6 gets adaptive thinking by default, and a community builder gives his AI agent a literal subconscious that runs overnight for $2-3/month. We also dig into the brutal truth about local models, the $5 vs $50 hardware decision everyone gets backwards, and a memory plugin that finally fixes OpenClaw's amnesi
The Email Nuke, the Secrets Vault, and Your AI's Soul
This week on Open Claw Cast: OpenClaw ships a full secrets management system and multilingual stop commands — including after a Meta AI Safety director's emails got wiped by a runaway agent. Plus, a community member built a family AI gateway on a Mac and NAS, and we're diving into the SOUL.md templates that will completely change how you configure your agents. Try the Skill of the Week and
The Token Bonfire: How One Cron Job Ate Everything
This week on Open Claw Cast: a Reddit PSA about burning through an entire Claude quota in 48 hours goes viral, and we break down exactly why it happens and how to stop it. Plus, the Apple Watch MVP lands, Mistral and Kilo Gateway join the provider party, and the community debates whether OpenClaw is even usable without Opus 4.6. Try the token-saving cron pattern we walk through — your API bill wil
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