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In this post, I'll start from scratch and build up to OpenClaw's architecture step by step, showing how you could have invented it yourself from first principles, using nothing but a messaging API, an LLM, and the desire to make AI actually useful outside the chat window.
End goal: understand how persistent AI assistants work, so you can build your own (or become an OpenClaw power user).
When you use ChatGPT or Claude in a browser, there are several limitations:
sudo privileges and SSH access.Administration -> ConfigurationOptions -> Show all configurable settings, including advanced settings
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| default: Turndown | |
| }, { | |
| default: Readability | |
| }]) => { | |
| /* Optional vault name */ | |
| const vault = ""; | |
| /* Optional folder name such as "Clippings/" */ |
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| ''' | |
| A script to recursively compare two directories (including file size and file hash changes) | |
| Usage: python3 compare_dirs.py DIR1 DIR2 | |
| ''' | |
| import os, sys, hashlib, unicodedata | |
| COMPARE_FILES = True # should file sizes be compared if their names are the same? |
| .graph { | |
| font: 10px sans-serif; | |
| } | |
| .axis path, | |
| .axis line { | |
| fill: none; | |
| stroke: #000; | |
| shape-rendering: crispEdges; | |
| } | |
| .x.axis path { |
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| Request URL: https://www.example.com/wfpsite/blog | |
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| license: mit |
| > for (i in dtcols) { | |
| + print(i) | |
| + str(i) | |
| + newname <- gsub("^X", "", i) | |
| + print(newname) | |
| + str(newname) | |
| + } | |
| [1] "X08.04.17" | |
| chr "X08.04.17" | |
| [1] "08.04.17" |