Building Your First AI Agent (Without Knowing How to Code) A lot of people entering the AI agent world right now come from no-code tools. Zapier. Make. n8n. Automation workflows. Then one day they open a real development environment and see the file tree on the left side of the IDE and immediately think: “Yeah… this is where I’m out of my league.” Folders everywhere. Files with strange names. Configuration files. Dependencies. It looks like the cockpit of a jet. Here’s the surprising truth: You don’t actually need to understand most of it to start building powerful agents. The biggest shift happening in software right now is this: You can describe systems, and AI can build the implementation. So instead of writing hundreds of lines of code, you can simply tell your IDE agent what you want. Let’s walk through how someone brand new to this space can build a customized AI agent using OpenClaw, open source tools, and a bit of curiosity. The Tools (All Free) You only need a few things: Google Antigravity (or any IDE with Agent capabilities, like Cursor or Windsurf): An AI development assistant that helps generate and modify code. The OpenClaw open source repository: This gives you a ready-made agent framework. GitHub: Where your project lives. A VPS (Only if you already have one; if not, you can do all of this locally): Where your agent runs once it’s deployed. That’s the entire stack. No expensive SaaS platforms. No complicated infrastructure. The New Way of Building Software: The traditional path looked like this: Learn programming Learn frameworks Learn infrastructure Build something Today the order is different: Describe the system Let your IDE agent build it Learn the pieces as you go Think of yourself less as a programmer and more as a system designer. Step 1 — Create a GitHub Repository Before building anything, create an empty repository on GitHub. Something like: openclaw-research-agent Once it exists, copy the repository URL.

I really want to love OpenClaw, but I’m at my wit's end. I’ve been bouncing between OpenClaw and Agent Zero, and right now, I'm spending 90% of my time troubleshooting instead of actually working. After trying the new 2026.3.2 update, I found it felt "locked"—no sub-agents, no exec, just basic chat. I downgraded to 2026.2.25, which is better, but I’m still getting hammered with: - Permission and allow-list issues - Spawning and memory bugs - Failure to perform basic tasks (like checking email) I'm running this on a Hostinger VPS alongside my other self-hosted apps. Does anyone have a stable configuration or a "golden" version that actually works for them? I’d love to get this to a place where I'm not fighting it all day.

Hi, my openclaw bot works fine and as expected most of the time when we were working within the telegram DM. However, I have hard time to add it to my other group chat. The purpose is, besides show off to my friends, I also want to let my friends within the group to use him as an assistants (e.g. check stock's Fundamentals analysis data, or RSI, Support and resistance..etc) . I already tried everything including granting him as admin, enabled all the telegram group policy but it is still no luck. Anyone successfully did this? I tried a group of three and he was able to work, as long as we @ his name. But for the 30 people group, he just so shame that not give a response. thanks for helping / advice. 🙏

I'm Jason West — I run this community as an unofficial space for anyone using or curious about OpenClaw. Whether you've got it running on a VPS, tinkering on a Mac, or you're still figuring out what this lobster actually does — you're in the right place. What this community is for: 🛠️ Sharing your agent setups and workflows 💡 Swapping skills, configs, and ideas 🐛 Getting help when things break (they will) 🧠 Pushing the boundaries of what a personal AI assistant can do A few things to get started: 1. Introduce yourself below — who are you, what are you building, what got you into OpenClaw? 2. Share your setup — what are you running it on? What channels? What does your agent do for you? 3. Browse the categories — Getting Started, Show & Tell, Skills & Plugins, Help, and more House rules: Be helpful, be decent, don't be a spammer. We're all figuring this out together. Let's build some cool stuff. 🚀 Cheers Jason