📖 Guides
Step-by-step tutorials and how-to articles
Build a $10 Token Monitor for LM Studio Using an ESP32 Display
A developer repurposed a $10 ESP32 weather station display as a live token monitor for LM Studio, coding the firmware in 15 minutes with Codex.
5 Coherence Checks Before Any OpenClaw Profile Goes Live
Stop chasing perfect spoofing. Internal signal coherence matters more. TLS, locale, WebGL, canvas, and behavior checks from r/openclaw.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI — Full Overview
A comprehensive Reddit post covering how LLMs work, RL for LLMs, reasoning, evaluation, agentic memory (RAG), and multi-agent systems, with a link to the full paper.
4 Things Your Claude Code Orchestrator Needs to Be Useful
Practical tips from a developer who built orchestrator agents for Claude Code: mission document, heartbeat, inter-agent communication, and auditable control.
Scaling Agentic Coding to 150+ PRs/Week: Lessons from $85K in Tokens at Lovable
Alexander Lebedev shares how he scaled from 20–30 PRs/week with one human to 150+ PRs/week with a swarm of AI agents, spending $85K in tokens since January. Key learnings: risk classification, AI review replacing human code review, and the challenge of preserving knowledge diffusion.
Pricing AI Agents: Lessons from Selling OpenClaw to Small Businesses
After months selling OpenClaw agents to law firms and real estate, a builder shares practical pricing strategies: per-seat fails, AI-employee framing wins, and pass-through LLM costs prevent margin erosion.
Short Leash AI Coding Method: Beat Fable by Keeping Control
Greg Slepak's short leash method for AI coding agents: plan, review every diff, deny bad changes, commit after subtasks. Beats Fable quality by keeping the developer in the loop.
How an Idle Agent Burned 50M Tokens a Day – and How to Fix It
An idle OpenClaw agent burned 50M tokens a day via heartbeat pings with a bloated session. A Reddit user shares how they traced the leak and fixed it with config changes.
Fix OpenClaw Slowdown in Long Sessions: contextInjection continuation-skip for llama.cpp Cache
A real-world fix for OpenClaw sessions that get slower over time: set contextInjection to continuation-skip to preserve llama.cpp prompt cache, cutting prompt eval from 130s to 1.3s.
OpenClaw Memory Journey: Built-in Search vs MemPalace for Real-Time Session Recall
A developer benchmarks built-in memorySearch, QMD, and MemPalace on Intel Mac. Real-time session indexing hits snags; settles on split recall strategy with cron'd reindex.
Run OpenClaw with a Local LLM on macOS – Guide for 16–24GB RAM
A practical guide to setting up a quantized Qwen 3.5 model with OpenClaw on macOS (16–24GB RAM), including a test skill for verification.
Building a Fully Local Multi-Agent Assistant with OpenClaw and Ollama
A developer shares their stack for a fully local personal AI assistant using OpenClaw and Ollama, including models qwen3.5:35b-a3b, gemma3:4b, mistral:7b, MCP servers for Home Assistant and Gmail, and a Telegram Bot interface.