"Today your claw stops being generic and starts being yours. By tonight, it will know your style, your projects, and your tools — and tomorrow's briefing will prove it."
What you will learn today
- How to shape your claw's personality and communication style
- How to give feedback that makes each briefing better than the last
- How to connect your task tracker, code repos, and other tools
- How to set up automations — cron jobs, research tasks, email drafts
- How the self-improving loop works
This morning's briefing
You woke up to your first real Morning Briefing. Calendar events, weather, email highlights — delivered to your phone (or Slack, or wherever you chose yesterday) without lifting a finger.
It was useful. But it was also generic. Maybe there was too much weather detail and not enough about your emails. Maybe the tone was too formal. Maybe you wished it pulled in your task list.
Good news: your claw is designed to get better. And you are about to tell it how.
Change the personality
Every claw has a personality file called SOUL.md — a plain-text document that defines how your claw communicates, what it prioritizes, and what boundaries it follows.
You do not need to edit a file directly. Just tell your claw what you want:
Be more casual. Use shorter sentences. Start my briefings with something funny.
I prefer bullet points over paragraphs. Keep things concise.
Never share my calendar details with anyone. Always ask before sending an email on my behalf.
Your claw updates its SOUL.md based on your feedback. Over time, it develops a communication style that feels like it was written for you — because it was.
Improve your briefing
This is the self-improving loop, and it is one of the most powerful things about OpenClaw.
After reading your briefing, just reply with what you want different:
Less weather. More detail on emails that need a response.
Add a section for my Todoist tasks that are due today.
Summarize any GitHub notifications from overnight.
Your claw adjusts its briefing prompt based on your feedback. Tomorrow morning, the briefing reflects your changes. The day after, you give more feedback. The cycle repeats.
Every briefing gets better than the last. Not because of a software update — because your claw learns what you actually care about.
Connect your tools
Calendar and email were just the start. The more your claw knows about your work, the more useful it becomes. Here are the integrations you can add today:
Task trackers
Connect your task management tool so your briefing includes what is due:
| Tool | What your claw can do |
|---|---|
| Todoist | Show due tasks, create tasks, mark complete |
| Linear | Show assigned issues, update status, add comments |
| Jira | Show sprint items, track progress, flag blockers |
| Obsidian | Read and update your notes, link tasks to context |
Set it up in Dashboard > Integrations — most are OAuth or API key, taking under a minute.
Once connected, try:
What tasks are due today?
Create a task: "Review Sarah's PR" due tomorrow at 2pm
Move the design review task to "In Progress"
Your claw is not just reading your task list — it is acting on it.
Code repositories
For developers, connecting GitHub turns your claw into a real development companion:
- Morning briefing includes overnight PRs, issues, and CI status
- On demand — ask your claw to summarize a PR, review code changes, or check build status
- Proactive alerts — get notified about failed builds or new issues assigned to you
Set it up with a GitHub personal access token in Dashboard > Integrations > GitHub.
Summarize the open PRs on my team's repo
What broke in CI last night?
Draft a PR description for my latest branch
More integrations
Your claw connects to dozens of services. A few highlights:
- Google Docs / Sheets — Read and update documents, pull data from spreadsheets
- RSS feeds — Summarize industry news for your briefing
- Web search — Research topics on demand or on a schedule
- Browser — Visit pages, extract content, take screenshots
Each integration you add makes your claw more capable — and makes your briefing richer.
Set up automations
Beyond the morning briefing, your claw can run tasks on a schedule or in response to triggers. These are the automations that save real time every week.
Scheduled tasks (cron jobs)
Tell your claw to do something on a recurring schedule:
Every Friday at 4pm, summarize my completed tasks for the week and draft a status update email to my manager.
Every morning, check Hacker News and summarize the top 3 stories relevant to my industry.
Every Monday, pull my team's open Jira tickets and send me a summary in Slack.
Research tasks
Need to stay on top of a topic? Set up a research automation:
Monitor news about [competitor name] and send me a weekly digest.
Track mentions of our product on Reddit and alert me if anything needs attention.
Email drafts
Your claw can draft replies based on your style and context:
When I get an email from a client asking about pricing, draft a reply using our standard pricing doc.
Draft a follow-up email to Sarah about the design review — reference our conversation from yesterday's standup.
Your claw drafts the message and waits for your approval before sending. You stay in control.
What tomorrow's briefing looks like
After today's customizations, tomorrow's briefing is a different animal:
Good morning! Quick one before standup:
3 things that need you today:
- Client proposal reply — they asked about timeline, draft ready for your review
- Design review at 2pm — no agenda yet, want me to ping the organizer?
- Todoist: "Finalize Q2 roadmap" is due today
GitHub overnight:
- 2 PRs merged, 1 new PR from Sarah needs review
- CI green across all repos
Quick news: TechCrunch covered a competitor launch — 2-sentence summary below
Briefing feedback? Just reply. I will make tomorrow's even better.
Shorter. More relevant. Actionable. And it will keep getting better every day because you keep telling it what matters.
The self-improving loop
Here is what is happening under the hood, and why it matters:
- Your claw delivers a briefing based on its current prompt and your connected tools
- You reply with feedback — "more of this, less of that, add this source"
- Your claw updates its own briefing prompt to reflect your preferences
- Tomorrow's briefing is better — tailored tighter to what you actually need
- You reply again — the cycle continues
This is fundamentally different from configuring a dashboard or setting up filters. You are not tweaking settings. You are having a conversation, and your claw adapts. Over weeks, it becomes an assistant that knows exactly what you need to start your day.
What just happened
Today you:
- Shaped your claw's personality through conversation
- Gave briefing feedback to trigger the self-improving loop
- Connected task trackers, code repos, and other tools
- Set up automations — scheduled tasks, research, and email drafts
Your claw is no longer generic. It knows your style, your tools, and your priorities. And it gets better every single day.
Key takeaways
- Personality is a conversation — tell your claw how you want it to communicate and it adapts
- The self-improving loop — every briefing gets better because your claw learns from your feedback
- Integrations are force multipliers — each connected tool makes your claw and your briefing more useful
- Automations save real time — scheduled tasks, research digests, and email drafts run while you sleep
- You stay in control — your claw drafts; you approve
You are ready
Three days in and you have:
- A personal AI agent that knows your name, your style, and your boundaries
- A Morning Briefing that arrives every day, tuned to what you care about
- Connected tools that let your claw act on tasks, code, email, and more
- Automations that run in the background, doing the tedious work for you
This is not a chatbot you have to open and prompt. This is an agent that works for you, around the clock, getting smarter every day.
From here, explore the ClawBytes Cookbook for pre-built automation recipes, browse the integrations directory for more connections, and keep talking to your claw. The more you use it, the better it gets.
The best claw is the one shaped by your workflow. Start small. Give feedback. Let it learn.