u/moosepiss

I've started playing with Openclaw's core Canvas skill. After some hiccups, I have it pushing content to my phone (which is running the official Openclaw app from the Play Store).

My proof of concept is a graphical system dashboard, and I'm happy to see it working end to end! Wheels are starting to turn, and I'm looking for some practical inspiration.

What are people using Canvas for?

When I first started working with OC, I identified a few use cases and created an agent for each, each having its own workspace-*. For example:

1. Main/System Administrator,

2. Family Agent,

3. Corporate Assistant,

4. Sports League Management

I'll chat directly with one of the agents when I want to develop a capability/tool/skill. For example, I'll chat with the Sports agent and work with it to develop a team-roster skill.

What I find is that I'll discover some coding strategy or architectural pattern that I want to apply to all agents going forward. For example, if we are tracking structured data (eg: points scores, spending ledger), always persist in .JSON files. To get this learning/rule to apply to all agents, I need to copy/paste the instructions into the workspace of each of my agents.

More recently I started just using my main agent to coordinate the building across all agents by spawning them. I'll describe to my main agent the requirements for the tooling that my Corporate agent needs to track spending. My main agent is the only one having the rule to use .JSON for structured data, and it will ensure that skills built in other agent workspaces follow the rules. No more duplication.

Hindsight is 20/20, and this orchestration pattern now seems obvious to me. When a first started OC I understood how it was recommended to have main agent that orchestrates sub agents, but was admittedly confused about if this should be applied in agent2agent scenarios like I am describing.

Thoughts?

Going through discover and can't seem to clear the "Monthly Expenses" sections. Overview tells me I am "Almost There 17% left". The expenses page gives some warnings about recommendations. These don't change no matter what I try. There is literally not a single zero or empty on the form.

Does adviice offer an API or MCP server so that my own agent, who knows all about my financial situation, can populate/configure adviice and read results?