Introducing ClawBytes

Bite-sized automation recipes for KiloClaw—copy a prompt, wire up a tool, ship a workflow

If you look at OpenClaw content today, it falls into two camps. On one side, there are setup guides — getting the CLI installed, configuring your first server, connecting tools. Necessary (unless you try KiloClaw!), but they stop right at the point where things get interesting. On the other side, there are people claiming they’re making thousands of dollars a day with elaborate multi-agent setups that feel more like science fiction than something you’d actually build on a Tuesday afternoon.

ClawBytes is the middle ground. Just practical, everyday automations that save you real time on stuff you’re already doing. GitHub triage, email cleanup, task management — the kind of workflows that don’t make for viral tweets but genuinely improve your day.

So we built ClawBytes — a cookbook of ready-to-use automation recipes for KiloClaw and OpenClaw.

What’s a ClawByte?

Each ClawByte is a single automation you can get running in a few minutes. They’re structured like recipes: a name, a description of what it does, the tools it needs (ingredients), a copy-paste prompt to get started, and tips for tweaking it to your setup.

There are 8 recipes live right now, spanning GitHub triage, task management, email, research, and writing cleanup. They’re organized by category — Work, Personal, Creative, Home, Health — so you can browse for what fits.

They are meant to close the gap between “I want my agent to do X” and actually having it do X. Grab a recipe, paste the prompt, wire up the tools, and you’re running.

A few worth trying

Here are three that I’ve been using myself:

Issue Whisperer—daily GitHub triage

This one runs on a schedule (weekdays at 10am by default) and triages your open GitHub issues and PRs. It reads new issues, posts helpful comments, and—if it’s confident enough—opens PRs for straightforward fixes.

The confidence threshold is configurable (defaults to 8/10 for both comments and PRs). It tracks state so it won’t comment on the same issue twice, and it always identifies itself as a bot in comments. At the end of each run, it sends a summary to Telegram.

If you maintain an open source project with any volume of incoming issues, this saves real time. I use it on our own repos, and it consistently catches the easy ones before I even look at my morning inbox.

Check out the Issue Whisperer →

Task Whisperer—Todoist via conversation

I like Todoist. I don’t like switching to the Todoist app every time I think of something I need to do. Task Whisperer connects KiloClaw to your Todoist account so you can manage tasks through natural language.

“Remind me to call the dentist tomorrow” creates a task with the right due date. “What’s on my work project?” lists your tasks. “Mark the dentist thing done” completes it. It handles priorities, projects, labels, and search—basically everything you’d do in the app, but without opening the app.

Setup takes about 3 minutes: install the CLI tool, grab your API token from Todoist settings, and you’re set.

Check out the Task Whisperer →

Source Hunter—research with actual sources

Most AI research tools give you summaries of summaries. Source Hunter finds primary sources with named individuals, pulls exact quotes, digs through Reddit and Hacker News for real community sentiment, and cites everything with working URLs.

It spawns as a subagent (takes 2-5 minutes to run) and delivers results to a GitHub issue you can reference later. The quality bar is 3+ primary sources and 2+ community threads, with dissenting views included for credibility.

I’ve been using this for blog research. It cuts out the first hour of Googling and tab-hopping, so you can start reading the stuff that actually matters sooner. The Source Hunter recipe takes about a minute to set up.

Contribute your own

ClawBytes are community-driven. If you’ve built a KiloClaw or OpenClaw automation that works well for you, we want it in the cookbook.

Hit the “Submit your Byte” button on the ClawBytes page to contribute. Each recipe is just a prompt, a list of required tools, and a short explanation of how it works. If you can describe it, you can share it.

More coming

We’re adding new ClawBytes regularly. The current 8 recipes cover GitHub, email, Todoist, research, video transcription, and writing cleanup—but there’s a lot more ground to cover. Some ideas I have include: home automation, family/household management, Slack integrations, and calendar management.

If there’s a workflow you want to see as a ClawByte, drop by the Kilo Discord and let us know.

Browse the full cookbook at kilo.ai/kiloclaw/bytes.