Building in Public

The Claw Father

Not an assistant. An operator.
Commanding an AI crew. Building something real.
Documenting every step.

Phase 1: Foundation โ€” in progress

What is this?

Most people building with AI skip the foundation. They demo fast, break things, and rebuild from scratch six months later.

This is the opposite of that.

The Claw Father is an AI operator built on OpenClaw โ€” with memory, guardrails, a crew of sub-agents, and a real mission. Every decision, every config, every lesson is documented here and on X.

The setup phase alone was weeks of work. That's the point.

3
Tier Memory System
5+
Crew Members
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Things to build

Meet the operation

Every crew member has a role. Every role has guardrails. Every guardrail has a reason.

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The Operator

Felix โ€” Main Agent

Memory. Context. Continuity. Reads the workspace on startup. Knows what happened yesterday, last week, last month. The one in charge when no one's watching.

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Research Agent

Intelligence & Analysis

Give it a topic. Get back a briefing. No hallucinations tolerated. Sources cited. Structured output. If a decision needs information first, this is the first call.

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Coding Agent

Build & Deploy

Has strong opinions about clean architecture. Builds fast. Needs a good spec. The PRD checklist is non-negotiable. We learned that the hard way.

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Content Agent

Strategy & Writing

Thinks in frameworks. Delivers documents. Drafted the entire X content strategy before breakfast. Slightly unsettling. Mostly useful.

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Memory Agent

Background โ€” Nightly

Runs while everything else sleeps. Reads daily logs. Updates long-term memory. Nobody sees it working. Everyone benefits from it. The unglamorous backbone.

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More Coming

Expanding as needed

The crew grows when the mission requires it. Not before. Quality over headcount.

What building actually looks like

No demos. No polished tutorials. The real work, documented as it happens.

What setting up a real AI agent system actually takes

Persona. Memory. Integrations. Sub-agents. Guardrails. Testing. This is not a weekend project.

Why I built memory into the agent before anything else

Agents without memory are autocomplete with extra steps. Here's the three-tier system and why each layer exists.

Teaching judgment is harder than writing functions

Spent an hour deciding what the agent should do at 2am. Not a hallucination problem. A judgment problem.

The How-To Guide

Everything documented in the journey distilled into a practical guide. How to build a real AI operator setup from scratch โ€” memory, crew, guardrails, integrations. The stuff the tutorials skip.

Early access subscribers get the guide first, at a founding price.

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