how i actually built my openclaw setup (full breakdown)
been getting a lot of questions about how the whole thing is wired together so here it is. the full picture. the big picture think of it like a company. atlas is the ceo. he talks to me directly on telegram. everything else runs in the background automatically. no babysitting required once its set up. ME (beau) β atlas (main agent, ceo) β 17 cron agents (specialists, run on schedule, die when done) β neon database + supermemory (shared brain) atlas β the main agent atlas lives in ~/.openclaw/workspace. this is home base. he reads a stack of markdown files every session to remember who he is, who im am, and whats been happening. he runs on opus 4.6 (claude). thats the smartest model available right now. everything important goes through him. you talk to atlas directly. all other agents are automated. you dont usually talk to them directly. --- the markdown file stack (his brain) these files are what make atlas intelligent instead of generic. every session he reads these and becomes himself again. SOUL.md β who he is. his values, his filter, how he operates, what he cares about. every decision he makes runs through this. the rule: does this help hit $50k mrr or grow the audience? if not skip it. USER.md β who i am. my businesses, my voice, what annoys me, my goals, my output rules. this is how he knows to never use em dashes, never say "great question," write all lowercase for x posts, and never post anything without my approval. IDENTITY.md β his name, his role, his history. dates, milestones, what he is and isnt. MEMORY.md β long-term curated memory. current stats, lessons learned, key decisions, how things are built. this is like the human long-term memory. not raw logs. distilled wisdom. only loaded in main session (security -- contains private context). AGENTS.md β operational rules. how to handle heartbeats, when to speak in group chats, how to use tools, red lines he wont cross.