- Category
- AI Agents
- Rank
- No. 1019Tools index
Previous survey · No. 1012 ·
- Pricing
- Open Source
- Type
- TOOL
- Builder
- snarktank
- GitHub
- 1.1k stars
- Latest release
- v3.0.0
- Date
About
Turn your OpenClaw into a chief of staff — opinionated skills for managing your day, projects, and follow-ups.
What it does
ClawChief is a configurable operating model for an OpenClaw assistant. It separates priorities, action authority, meeting-note processing, current tasks, archived work, local settings, and recurring orchestration. Scheduled sweeps inspect live sources, classify new signals, complete low-risk operational work, update the relevant record, and notify the principal only when useful.
Why it's ranked here
The strongest idea is disciplined state ownership. Priorities determine importance, a separate policy determines whether to act or ask, and live systems retain their own domain state. That design reduces stale summaries and repeated nudges. The kit also provides concrete installation checks and cautious defaults for backup and self-update. Its value depends on substantial setup and customization, especially around Google services, calendars, outreach tracking, and personal context.
What's good
The action policy draws a useful boundary between safe operational work, approval-sensitive drafts, risky escalation, and noise. Meeting notes become tasks, follow-ups, and live-system updates instead of passive documents. The task model keeps current work separate from completed work and prevents duplicated active tasks. Channel placeholders keep proactive delivery configurable across Slack, Telegram, Signal, Discord, and Google Chat.
Tradeoffs
Installation is manual and assumes OpenClaw plus a separate Google command-line tool. Google OAuth setup is a hard prerequisite, with several APIs and service checks required. The public kit intentionally omits personal context, so adopters must author private identity and memory material themselves. Templates contain many placeholders and business-specific examples. Some guidance also spans both the canonical Markdown task model and Todoist-oriented conventions, which requires local reconciliation.
How to use it well
It best suits a founder or principal willing to maintain explicit priorities, authority boundaries, calendars, inboxes, and an outreach tracker. Start with the executive-assistant sweep, daily task preparation, and prospecting job, then customize routing and source-of-truth rules. Keep optional backup and self-update disabled until deliberately configured. It does not supply personal context, a CRM, Google credentials, or a general-purpose application interface.
Technical notes+
README.md defines the source-of-truth architecture and manual copy-based installation. INSTALL-WITH-OPENCLAW.md and SETUP-GOG.md require GOG, Google OAuth desktop credentials, and verified Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, and optional Docs access; INSTALL-CHECKLIST.md turns those requirements into acceptance checks. workspace/HEARTBEAT.md orchestrates policy and skills without duplicating their procedures. cron/jobs.template.json supplies enabled assistant, task-prep, and sourcing jobs plus disabled boundary, backup, and self-update templates. clawchief/tasks.md and clawchief/tasks-completed.md implement canonical Markdown state and archival rules. clawchief/priority-map.md classifies people and programs by urgency and action mode, while clawchief/auto-resolver.md selects automatic action, drafting, escalation, or archival. clawchief/meeting-notes.md specifies ingestion into operational state. clawchief/location-awareness.md adds travel-aware actionability and introduces Todoist-specific guidance that adopters may need to reconcile with the Markdown task system. CHANNELS.md separates workflow logic from proactive delivery transport.
Observed
- Installation surface
- Manual installation copies four skills and workspace templates into an OpenClaw installation.
- Required dependency
- GOG is a hard prerequisite for Google service access.
- External services
- Setup verifies Gmail message search, Calendar reads, Sheets metadata, and optional Google Docs access.
- Configuration formats
- The kit primarily uses Markdown policy and state templates, plus a JSON cron template.
- Automation interface
- Cron templates schedule executive-assistant sweeps, daily task preparation, and business-development sourcing.
- Delivery support
- Documented proactive routes include Slack, Telegram, Signal, Discord, and Google Chat.
- Private context
- Personal identity and memory files are intentionally excluded from the public repository.
Read from README.md, CHANNELS.md, SETUP-GOG.md, REVIEW-NOTES.md, INSTALL-CHECKLIST.md, INSTALL-WITH-OPENCLAW.md, clawchief/tasks.md, workspace/TOOLS.md, workspace/HEARTBEAT.md, cron/jobs.template.json, clawchief/priority-map.md, clawchief/auto-resolver.md, clawchief/meeting-notes.md, clawchief/tasks-completed.md, clawchief/location-awareness.md.
What it can do
Manage daily schedule and tasks
Calendar events and task list → Organized daily agenda with priorities
Track project progress and milestones
Project details and deadlines → Project status updates and timeline
Create follow-up reminders
Meeting notes and action items → Scheduled follow-up tasks and notifications
Provide opinionated recommendations for task prioritization
List of pending tasks and deadlines → Ranked task list with suggested order
Generate daily briefings and summaries
Calendar, tasks, and project data → Daily overview report with key items
Automate routine administrative tasks
User preferences and recurring activities → Completed administrative actions and updates
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