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In this post, I'll start from scratch and build up to OpenClaw's architecture step by step, showing how you could have invented it yourself from first principles, using nothing but a messaging API, an LLM, and the desire to make AI actually useful outside the chat window.
End goal: understand how persistent AI assistants work, so you can build your own (or become an OpenClaw power user).
When you use ChatGPT or Claude in a browser, there are several limitations:
| https://chartio.com/resources/tutorials/how-to-set-the-default-user-password-in-postgresql |
| =Navigating= | |
| visit('/projects') | |
| visit(post_comments_path(post)) | |
| =Clicking links and buttons= | |
| click_link('id-of-link') | |
| click_link('Link Text') | |
| click_button('Save') | |
| click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button | |
| click('Button Value') |
| ' Macro to Extract pages | |
| Sub mcrExtractPages() | |
| Application.Browser.Target = wdBrowsePage | |
| For i = 1 To ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Number of Pages") | |
| ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Copy | |
| Documents.Add | |
| Selection.Paste | |
| ChangeFileOpenDirectory "C:\Temp" | |
| DocNum = DocNum + 1 | |
| ActiveDocument.SaveAs FileName:="ExtractedPage_" & DocNum & ".docx" |
| http://codepen.io/JacobStone420/pen/GfLEn | |
| http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/11/02/original-hover-effects-with-css3/ | |
| http://www.designshifts.com/add-an-off-canvas-sidebar-menu-to-a-wordpress-theme/ | |
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| func_check_for_root() { | |
| if [ ! $( id -u ) -eq 0 ]; then | |
| echo "ERROR: $0 Must be run as root, Script terminating" ;exit 7 | |
| fi | |
| } | |
| func_check_for_root | |
| #SETUP PARAMS |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzJcrH6dGGs |
| Running `mix ecto.migrate` attached to terminal... up, run.6992 | |
| ** (Postgrex.Error) tcp connect: econnrefused | |
| (ecto) lib/ecto/adapters/sql/worker.ex:29: Ecto.Adapters.SQL.Worker.query!/4 | |
| (ecto) lib/ecto/adapters/sql.ex:187: Ecto.Adapters.SQL.use_worker/3 | |
| (ecto) lib/ecto/adapters/postgres.ex:59: Ecto.Adapters.Postgres.ddl_exists?/3 | |
| (ecto) lib/ecto/migration/schema_migration.ex:19: Ecto.Migration.SchemaMigration.ensure_schema_migrations_table!/1 | |
| (ecto) lib/ecto/migrator.ex:36: Ecto.Migrator.migrated_versions/1 | |
| (ecto) lib/ecto/migrator.ex:134: Ecto.Migrator.run/4 | |
| (mix) lib/mix/cli.ex:55: Mix.CLI.run_task/2 |
| ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test" | |
| require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__) | |
| require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/blueprints' | |
| require 'faker' | |
| require 'rails/test_help' | |
| require 'minitest/autorun' | |
| require 'minitest/pride' | |
| class MiniTest::Unit::TestCase | |
| include MiniTest::ActiveRecordAssertions |
| module FormatAttributes | |
| def formats(*attributes) | |
| @format_attributes = attributes | |
| end | |
| def format_attributes | |
| @format_attributes | |
| end | |
| end |