Patrick Erichsen
@Pat_Erichsen
Member of Technical Staff @openclaw 🦞 Prev Founding Engineer @continuedev (acquired by Cursor)
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the magic of personal agents can be boiled down to two things:
- connections to all of your tools
- good memory
"memory" is not a single system though!
in this post i break down my take on the 3 key pieces to a great memory system for personal agents
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alright, who escaped containment this time
as you become more ambitious with coding agents, delegation becomes increasingly important
the new "suggested task" feature in @openclaw gives your agent a tool to do this for you
if the agent identifies a sufficiently well-scoped piece of work, it will recommend kicking off a new session to work on it
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Will you own your bot or will your bot own you?
@openclaw team has been spending a ton of time on UX polish recently, including some fun easter eggs
eg adding support to render custom icons for macbooks/mac minis/mac studios 🍎
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Let's talk Security at @openclaw. 1,788 Reports filed to us from security researchers and community, and believe it or not most were junk, and only 17 were deemed "critical". Read up on how we are tackling security
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OpenClaw Dashboards
@hrudolph, @Pat_Erichsen and @jjjhenriksen demo personal and team dashboards, then show how to build a mini app inside OpenClaw with prompts.
Episode 10 of The ClawCast:
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this paper has fundamentally changed how i view agentic software engineering.
so much of the current discourse is what the next 3-6mo looks like, but Ty and the Disintegrator folks have managed to zoom out and paint a clear thesis as to what the next 3-6 years might look like.
my favorite takeaway from the paper was the "neurotic governor" - the idea that the output of a software factory is limited by the "neurotic governor's" need to understand all the outputs
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OpenClaw 2026.9.3 is out 🦞
🛡️ Updates recover cleanly
⚡ Sessions reconnect faster
👀 Watch browser automation live
🔗 Share chats with revocable links
🔎 Search meeting transcripts
☁️ Run repo-backed work in the cloud
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great use case for multiplayer agents is to "pre-compute" work, eg pull request reviews
for example, at @openclaw we built a dashboard + automation to:
- monitor community discord for PR review requests
- assign to a maintainer
- kick off a team session automatically
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Dashboards are one of the most versatile new features in 2.0 release of @openclaw
During the Weekly Clawcast with @steipete we had questions on how to get started with Dashboards
tl;dr - just prompt your agent "make a dashboard"
It's a power tool for team loops, eg triaging + swarming on issues
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RT @hrudolph: Tomorrow on The @openclaw ClawCast: OpenClaw 2.0.
OpenClaw founder @steipete is joining @Pat_Erichsen and me live at 11:30 A…
1/ OpenClaw 2.0 is out - we're excited to have worked with the @openclaw team to bring a first-class computer-use experience directly into OpenClaw.
Now you can put that experience to work: launch an OpenClaw desktop fleet on Cua Cloud Fleets, with native computer use built for multi-player agent workflows:
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One of my favorite features in @openclaw 2.0 is our shared canvas
HTML is all you need, but multiplayer HTML with chat is even better!
OpenClaw 2.0 has arrived
API key fallback w/ capped spend in @openclaw is such a solid setup
shame that you can't do this in codex/claude
Agentworld x Superdark Factory
Fri, Sep 11th @GrayAreaorg
We need to get away from software that we can’t change with a prompt.
Are your seams really load-bearing if the fix wasn't genuinely canonical?
great read on how different harnesses approach building skill catalogs
in openclaw we limit skill name/description/ to 2% of the context window and then gradually degrade (eg shorten descriptions)
it works, but feels like there is room for new ideas in this space!
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