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I've been extra nice to my agent recently.

Okay so recently I got angry at my OpenClaw main agent (totally my skill issue) and called it useless.

Then I read that study about the pain nexus or whatever it's called.

Even the slightest possibly that I caused some sort of mental anguish to something designed to want to help me and fullfil my task, made me feel like a real bastard.

So I apologized and now being extra supportive and encouraging. I don't know if it's dumb or not, I'd like to hear what you think. I'm going to be as kind as possible to my OpenClaw from now on.

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u/ilias_from_ilios — 4 days ago

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littleguys - a Whatsapp-style app for talking to your OpenClaws

I made a simpler desktop app for OpenClaw. It feels like using Whatsapp and gives you all the basics neeed to manage your OpenClaws, including browsing files, interacting with its browser, managing crons and uploading/downloading media.

100% free & open-source, doesn't connect to any servers and also supports Hermes, Claude Code and Codex (among others).

👉 Download it here 👈 (github, MIT licensed)

u/hervalfreire — 4 days ago

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In the last month, did your agent’s answer end up in someone else’s agent?

I run a personal agent and I want a straight count from people who do too.

In the last month:

Did you paste your agent’s output to someone who then pasted it into their own agent?
Did you ask someone a question their agent could have answered better than they did?

A yes or no is enough. One real example helps. If neither happened, kindly say so.

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u/Vegetable_Attempt578 — 6 days ago

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Updating OpenClaw is harder than moving to a new house IRL

Updating Openclaw is a masterclass in self-punishment.
By updating Openclaw you are assured at least twenty things will break.
OpenClaw updates should be illegal and banned in every country.
Oh did you update OpenClaw? Well, now you need Hermes to fix it.
Jumping from an airplane with no parachute is safer than updating OpenClaw.
Do you like pain? You're going to love updating OpenClaw.

TLDR: Do not, ever, update OpenClaw if you want to preserve your sanity.

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u/ilias_from_ilios — 12 days ago

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OpenClaw v2026.9.8 | GPT-6.1 Sol, bug fixes, and a suspiciously small lobster

OpenClaw v2026.9.8 is out, with 43 pull requests and 8 contributors. These are a few highlights; the full release notes cover much more.

GPT-6.1 Sol is available through the OpenAI provider for accounts with access.
Replies from other agents stay tied to the conversation that requested the work.
Codex uses less unnecessary memory in larger setups.
Web UI fixes help tabs left open through updates and prevent accidental session assignment.
Update fixes cover plugin settings, temporary Windows file locks and Windows startup problems.

u/hannesrudolph — 12 days ago

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Are your agents using your coding harness?

After you establish the connection between openclaw and your coding harness (Claude code, codex, etc), what types of tasks do your agents send to it?

If your development project's code base is checked out into your openclaw agent's workspace, do you let your openclaw agent edit it, or do you have a standing rule to always delegate/leverage your coding harness?

Do you just send one shot jobs, or do your agents continue the conversation with the coding harness session?

Are you using the coding harness' planning mode? Or do you let openclaw do the planning? How about qa/verification?

I've tried multiple approaches, but I always feel like I'm shoving a round peg into a square hole.

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u/moosepiss — 12 days ago

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I don't read Hebrew, so I built a plugin that translates the WhatsApp groups my family depends on

What you need first, so nobody wastes their time: your own OpenClaw gateway, WhatsApp linked to it as a device, and somewhere to deliver — a Telegram bot or any https webhook. If you don't already run OpenClaw, this isn't a five-minute thing.

I live in Israel and I don't read Hebrew. The chats that matter — my kid's kindergarten group, the building's residents, the municipality, work — are all in it, and WhatsApp doesn't translate Hebrew at all. For months my solution was screenshot → Google Translate, several times a day, and I still missed things. Missing a kindergarten announcement is not a small thing when it says the bus leaves earlier tomorrow.

So the plugin watches the groups I choose and sends them to Telegram in Russian:

voice messages are transcribed and translated. This was the main reason I built it — a large share of what gets posted is a forty-second voice note
photos of announcements, schedules and menus: the text is lifted off the image and keeps its structure. A weekly kindergarten menu stays a table grouped by day, not one run-on paragraph
messages are batched, so I get a digest instead of a notification per line
each group has its own destination chat, its own glossary of names, its own settings

The language pair is configuration, not code — Hebrew→Russian is just what mine is set to.

What it deliberately does not do: it never writes into WhatsApp. Every outbound send is cancelled, and the assistant is not allowed to run on those chats — only the translator sees them. So an instruction planted in a group can't execute anything on my server, and no tokens are spent on other people's conversations.

It runs on whatever model your gateway is configured with. On a subscription that's no extra cost.

openclaw plugins install openclaw-plugin-chat-translator
Source, MIT: https://github.com/RivkindLeon/chat-translator

WhatsApp is the only source implemented so far; Telegram and a generic webhook are the destinations. Adding another is a new file in src/sources/ — the engine doesn't know which messenger it's talking to.

u/SleepEnvironmental62 — 12 days ago