YOUR FIRST OPENCLAW AGENT — WEEK ONE CHECKLIST
Coding180 · from "Your First OpenClaw Agent"

□ Pick a task you already do the same way every time — at least twice a
  week, same steps, no judgment calls. Not an ambitious idea, a real
  repeated task.

□ Build the workspace files before any pipeline logic, in this order:
    1. AGENTS.md
    2. SOUL.md
    3. TOOLS.md

□ Wire it to ONE channel to start. Telegram is the easiest to debug —
  skip Slack/WhatsApp/Discord for week one.

□ Write the .lobster pipeline only after the three files above exist.

□ Run `openclaw doctor` after every single config change, not just when
  something breaks.

□ Confirm the channel binding with `openclaw agents list --bindings`
  before considering the agent "live."

Widen the tool allow-list later, once it's actually needed — you can't
easily walk back an agent that already did something it shouldn't have.