Matt Ramage

dead simple way to maintain openclaw. bugs, oauth expiring, worried it breaks while you're away. install codex app. set an automation. it checks and fixes your gateway on a schedule. new problem? fix once, add to prompt, never again. my prompt does these things: 1. SSH into the VPS, run four health checks 2. if something's wrong, apply the smallest safe non-destructive fix. no touching auth, no touching secrets 3. if it can't fix it or it's serious, write an incident report and send me a notification on telegram 4. on sundays, run a drift check for backups, root-owned residue, and journal error patterns the powerful thing about codex is that its login session can be shared directly with openclaw. oauth expiring? codex just renews it. solving this with other agents would be a much bigger problem. what you end up with is a maintenance expert that gets smarter over time. every new problem you solve gets added to the prompt, so it knows how to handle it next time. token cost is low too, each run takes about a minute. full prompt (sanitized, replace with your own server address): Maintain the OpenClaw gateway with a single conservative automation. Read local docs before making any claims about commands or fixes. SSH to your-server on port 22. Treat systemctl and journalctl as supervisor truth. Run openclaw status --deep, openclaw channels status --probe, openclaw cron status, and openclaw models status --check. Apply only the smallest safe non-destructive repair such as restarting openclaw-gateway.service, running openclaw doctor, repairing symlinks, or fixing accidental root-owned residue. If a significant issue is found, first write an incident markdown file with severity, impact, evidence, repair attempted, current status, and next action. Then deliver a short alert summary through your preferred notification channel. On Sunday morning, also run weekly drift checks for backups, root-owned residue, and recent journal error patterns. Leave one inbox summary that separates healthy state, repaired issues, incidents, alerts sent, and blockers requiring human judgment. Never expose secrets, never weaken auth or access policy.

🚨 Holy shit...A developer on GitHub just built a full development methodology for AI coding agents and it has 40.9K stars on GitHub. It's called Superpowers, and it completely changes how your AI agent writes code. Right now, most people fire up Claude Code or Codex and just… let it go. The agent guesses what you want, writes code before understanding the problem, skips tests, and produces spaghetti you have to babysit. Superpowers fixes all of that. Here's what happens when you install it: → Before writing a single line, the agent stops and brainstorms with you. It asks what you're actually trying to build, refines the spec through questions, and shows it to you in chunks short enough to read. → Once you approve the design, it creates an implementation plan so detailed that "an enthusiastic junior engineer with poor taste and no judgement" could follow it. → Then it launches subagent-driven development. Fresh subagents per task. Two-stage code review after each one (spec compliance, then code quality). The agent can run autonomously for hours without deviating from your plan. → It enforces true test-driven development. Write failing test → watch it fail → write minimal code → watch it pass → commit. It literally deletes code written before tests. → When tasks are done, it verifies everything, presents options (merge, PR, keep, discard), and cleans up. The philosophy is brutal: systematic over ad-hoc. Evidence over claims. Complexity reduction. Verify before declaring success. Works with Claude Code (plugin install), Codex, and OpenCode. This isn't a prompt template. It's an entire operating system for how AI agents should build software. 100% Opensource. MIT License.

We're shipping a new feature in Claude Cowork as a research preview that I'm excited about: Dispatch! One persistent conversation with Claude that runs on your computer. Message it from your phone. Come back to finished work. To try it out, download Claude Desktop, then pair your phone.