Aaaaaand openclaw bricked the VM

So this is running now… pretty well. For $20 a month on a small server I already had. The agents are building me a website and infrastructure for a hobby project that I have thought about for years. Technology is wild.

I put it on its own subnet and am only giving it its own accounts and doing project work that wouldn’t be a complete disaster if it all got publicized. Assuming basically no security but still being careful!

As a man I didn’t fully understand what an ick was until I saw the Seattle Seahawks trophy presentation happen without the team on stage. Especially gross bringing the QB on stage with the MVP for no apparent reason

Sorry… probably should have said “for a normie”. Low cost, high ease of set up. Now those are also the people who should not be fucking around with openclaw from a security standpoint

Yeah… more time than money for me, but still. Damn.

Currently trying to implement a project team in openclaw… it’s not there yet, but it feels really close. Would be curious if others have tried this. MiniMax may not be smart enough to pull it off sustainably. - 4 agents - Project manager - Full stack developer - QA / Verification - Research and resource investigation - Agent to agent communication enabled in config - Each agent has independent communication channel - Convex database in a convex folder with following features: - Task management (create, assign, update status, block/unblock) - Message logging - SearXNG installed with docker for local search - Cron jobs for each agent to check messages, tasks, and blockers every 45 minutes - Each agent has a WORKING.md file where they log their progress, blockers, and key findings. This file is also used for other agents to check if their teammates are blocked or need help. - Cron job for project manager to check all agents' WORKING.md files every 45 minutes to identify blockers and prioritize unblocking as the number 1 task and then do his own work. - Daily cron job for project manager to summarize all work and run stand up - Daily cron job to check system health - Daily cron to review project materials / scoping / planning in the projects folder Steps: 1. Get agents running. 2. Make sure agents can communicate with each other 3. Get the project manager to put together a clear specification for how communication will work with convex 4. Have full stack developer implement the specification and create a skill describing how the database is used 5. Have full stack developer set up SearXNG search engine and create a skill describing how to use it 6. Have QA, Researcher, and PM test the tools 7. Get the PM to work with you on scoping a long-term projects and assigning initial tasks. 8. See if it works - check and adjust as needed.

For context, I am hitting limits now but only because I am trying to set up a four agent team that works together on a 45 minute schedule on projects. For single agent usage I was rarely hitting the limit.

I think there are a lot of people who don’t have a home server and a Mac mini is arguably the easiest way to get a persistent Unix environment running at a relatively low cost. I was glad I already had proxmox set up

I’ve had a lot of luck with synthetic.new standard plan… sounds like they may have close sign ups though. Pretty huge cap on requests that works out to be cheaper than the API and MiniMax works well. Mixed results with k2.5 I do have referrals, but not sure if that will let you sign up.