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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another video where, you know, a lot of you have been DMing me saying, "Why don't you make a video on Claudebot, which is now called Open CL? " And, you know, I've just been super busy over the last 3 or 4 days, you know, game stuff, work stuff, business stuff. It's been so crammed.

So, I called my friend Sid from 100x engineers and I said, "Sid, I know you've been playing with OpenClaw for the last week. Can you come do a tutorial with us and we'll just show people use cases and how to get set up very quickly? " And he said, "Cool.

I'm in. " So today we're going to talk about OpenClaw Sid. We're going to talk about how to set it up.

Before that Sid, how long have you been using this? What's the coolest thing you've done? >> The coolest thing which I've done so far is automating my grocery ordering so that my cook doesn't bug me every morning.

>> Very cool. >> I order this and >> can you cook talk directly to OpenClaw now? Can can you text openclaw?

>> So I sent this number to her but uh I'm not very sure. >> Awesome. So let's find out.

Let's set up OpenClaw. How do we begin? >> So we have multiple ways to set up the open claw.

One is on cloud that is a more secure way. So we have options like digital ocean where you can like get a droplet which is your cloud server and deploy it there and another way is like you can do it on your local machine. However, this is a very early stage project.

So I would not recommend anyone to install it on your personal machine go because of security risk. >> Exactly. Can you tell us what all can happen?

So by default this has the tendency to connect with any remote server and it also like opens your desktop or the the app machine which you're using to the entire public internet so anyone can access it like they can do malicious things and plus it takes some time to set up. I have a question is there any brainless way to use it any platforms? >> Uh recently emergent actually launched something cool which is a onceclick setup.

So we can actually show that. >> Okay so you go to emergent website. This is emergent.

sh SH and now they have added like one click setup. So earlier it used to take like couple of steps to like install it, get a server. Now it's just like one step process.

So you click on this >> one click. Yeah, just one click. Just one click and you press enter.

So it automatically runs all the script. It gets a new server on the emergence uh back end and then initializing right now the cloud environment. It gets all the resources and it's starting.

It's already set up. >> Yeah. So it's it'll take like a couple of minutes to set up everything up and then you can access everything on a link which it'll give you.

>> Cool. >> So let's not do this uh emergence school for people who don't want to go through the setup process. So let's actually go through the local setup process.

Let's see what it's actually like to do on your local machine. How do we start? You go to opencloud.

ai. So yeah, first go to opencloud. ai and based on your operating system.

Right now we're using a Windows machine. So make sure you have WSL and NodeJS. These are the two prerequisites.

Uh, and for those of you that are listening, it's pretty easy to get WSL started. Make sure you choose the Ubuntu dro using Ubuntu, I assume. Just go to Google, search for how do I get WSL on my Windows machine.

And the second thing you need is NodeJS. >> NodeJS. Yes.

>> Awesome. So Google how to get NodeJS on WSL. It's fairly simple simple steps.

We don't want to make this a very very lengthy tutorial. So just pick those two up. So next step just write this command in WSL.

In WSL npm openclaw. This will install OpenClaw on your machine. And after this you can write this last command which is openclaw onboard.

So two commands openclaw uh install npm ig and then openclaw onboard. >> Awesome. >> So let's uh run this openclaw on board.

So this is like a wizard but >> yes >> in the terminal. >> So it'll like set up everything for you. A very cool thing about open claw is it asks you to define the identity and give a soul to it.

So you actually like uh need to give it the identity. What do you think? Like what can you tell it to be?

Let's make it the most rude agent possible. First, it gives you a security warning. Let's make this full screen.

It gives you a security warning, and this is important. Open Claw is a hobby project and still in beta. Expect sharp edges.

This bot can read files and run actions. remember that every text you send the bot or anything you do on WhatsApp with the bot uh there's a lot of possibility of you you know kind of giving out your personal details which is why actually we recommended emergent or any of these cloud solutions where it's easier for you to use this without giving away details right I know Sid you've set this up on a separate machine and even the WhatsApp number you have is a separate number that you've created >> we have bought like a different number and a different email also for this >> super so I understand this is powerful and inherently risky I said yes. So let's start the onboarding mode.

We'll do a quick start. U so it'll ask me first which model I need to use. >> Let's use OpenAI.

>> Let's go with OpenAI. So we need to copy the OpenAI key which will not show our key here. >> So I'll use the existing one.

>> Okay, just copy paste the OpenAI key. If you don't know how to get an OpenI key, just go to Google and type how do I get an OpenAI key. >> And uh I'll be using OpenAI GPD 5.

2 model. uh for this particular agent I would recommend using a model which has a reasoning engine or which has reasoning on by default. So GP2 5.

2 2 works uh cloud 4. 5 opus works great >> and this is mostly because you wanted to execute tasks exactly as you are as you want but also for security reasons it won't let you like you know do stupid things >> exactly and the next thing is now we need to select a channel so by default it gives you options you can choose telegrams discord what do you want to select >> let's choose so let's use this and we'll start linking ours so we'll add your personal WhatsApp number so we'll use your phone and your number. We've selected WhatsApp.

Configure skills. Now Sid, so what are skills? >> So this is how you can extend the capabilities of this agent.

Suppose tomorrow you wanted to teach how you write. So you can like transfer all the learning and you can create a new skill which this cla bot can learn. >> And are these the same cloud skills that we can use or these are specifically for open claw?

>> So skills are portable by nature and they have actually use the same concept of what claude is using. So you can actually convert the existing claude skills and you can repurpose here. >> Lovely.

We'll skip that for now. We'll also skip hooks. Let's start the gateway.

So now the OpenClaw has started. >> How do you want to hatch your OpenClaw bot and it says it's on the browser. So now it's set up on the browser, I assume.

>> Yes. So this is the link and this is a local host link. >> Okay.

>> Again, I'm very skeptical about its abilities. Uh so I'm only running it on my local machine. >> So let's click on that.

Cool. So Open Cloud Control has opened. So this is the chat.

We'll come back to the chat in a bit. There's overview of everything that's going on. just a at a glance.

Then there are channels. We have WhatsApp as a channel. >> The communication channels >> but as you said we can you know install discord telegram whatever way you want to chat with openclaw you can set that up but WhatsApp is best.

Then there are instances. Yeah. So what are instances sid?

>> So open cloud by default can be run on multiple devices on CLI on UI. So these are all the instances which is running. >> Awesome.

Sessions which is how we're connected. Your phone is connected as I can see here. Then there are chron jobs I assumed are timed things that open clock can run for you.

Can you explain what a chron job is? >> Chron job is a process which can run automatically in background. So you can give it a time so that for example every morning if you want to receive the top five trending things which is happening in AI so you can set up chron job for that it can go and check your favorite.

>> This is when it hits you right like you can have 8 a. m. something pop up 5:00 p.

m. something pop up. And I think you know this just this UI on open claw is so dense.

There's so many things and there's so much to learn. I feel like a lot of companies will hire like an open cloud expert to come set it up for them. >> In fact, there's a company right right now which are actually doing the same service.

You can like ask them and they'll come to your doorstep and set up everything for you. >> I'm very confident enterprise in India will need something like this and they'll ask well what are the things we can automate. So if you're watching this video and this entire tutorial is going to be free uh you probably have you know something you can freelance with.

You probably have a new skill that you can pick up and of course you can go even deeper after you watch this video. But then again agents have skills and there are lots of skills I can see here which we've not installed like one password Apple notes Apple reminders bird blog watcher so these are skills you can add that can do specific stuff for you so they've coded or rather prompted you know set of things that can do at the end of the day it's just like set of prompts and written SOPs and you can also build your own skills for your use case. It's very interesting in Ruby on Rails we had this idea of gems.

Yeah. Right. Which you can use to extend but all those gems were written with code here.

All these skills are written with English which is cool. So anyone as long as you have good ideas and you can write it down you can now add any skill and open cloud will do it for you which is a crazy world that we live in. In fact this is the future of software.

>> Yeah exactly. >> Then there are nodes uh which we don't need to get into right now. Then there's config which is how we've configured in that initial onboarding >> control panel where you can like change the model name.

You can change the setups, the commands, anything which you want to add and remove from the settings. >> Lovely. Then there's debugging which we don't need to get into and logs which is what have you done so far.

And then finally there's documentation which if you want to read more about OpenClaw you can. Let's go all the way back to chat. Sid we're going to chat with this bot through your phone through messages.

Uh so let's start. Can I send a message? Yeah.

>> Can you show me the number that you have? Awesome. So, this is the chat with OpenClaw.

Hey, OpenClaw, from now on. Your name is Raju and you will only respond to Raju. I assume OpenClaw is special because it has memory.

>> Yes. >> So, this would this should work. >> So, it's chatting.

You can see it's typing which is very cool. And it says I can't follow only respond to Raju because you still need to be able to reach me normally and system gateway will still come through. I can do this instead.

My name is Raju. I'll prefer responding when you address me as Raju, but I'll still respond when you ask me normally so you're not locked out. Okay, that's fine.

And it says, you know, if you want to stricter rule, tell me. Should I ignore messages that don't include the word Raju? Let's not do that.

But let's start with, "Hey Raju, uh, from now on, I want you to respond to me like a Gen Z kid with Gen Z slang. " Okay, this is very cool. I'm communicating with the AI in the PC and I can see it in the chat on the PC as well, but communicate with my AI on WhatsApp and I can control my PC from my phone.

Okay, from now I'll respond with Jenzie Vibes plus slang and I'll keep it readable and non-cring spam, please. Quick preps. I don't need all of this.

Now I'm going to ask it to access the browser, but I want to do it in the safest way possible. How do you set that up first? >> So one of the safest way to do this is to actually install the browser extension.

So this browser extension is called openclaw browser relay because it's a special extension. It only access the browser tab and the websites which you give permission >> which you've already opened. >> Yes.

So otherwise if this bot gets access or or if this number uh someone else tries to like send the messages to they can like >> open any website >> open any website and control the entire PC. So just to make sure that we have the security um measures in place we're going to give the access to only one tab and one website. So let me just say um hey Raju find me the top three posts by up votes on the topic of cooking on Reddit today.

Okay, now I can see it typing back. Okay, it's controlling my browser. It's gone to the search bar and I can see it doing it automatically which is very interesting to watch.

So it's clicked the relevance tab. It's magical. I'm using WhatsApp controlling the browser.

Just typed it in. The browser is like doing its thing. Now it's clicked on the drop down all time.

This is fantastic. I mean I've used this on you know your open uh that tool. What is it called?

>> Computer use. >> Computer use. >> Yeah.

I can imagine a lot of automation startups who was actually doing this as a service like this can now do all all those kind of automations. See, this is very cool because the top three posts as I was seeing even if you type the word cooking are some about billionaires and billionaires are bad and this and that like which is Reddit mostly, right? But Claude realized that hey that's not what we're looking for.

So it went to Reddit r/cooking which is a very smart decision it took cuz otherwise it would have given me three political pieces of content maybe which had mentioned the word cooking or something like that. This is a clever decision that it made. >> Exactly.

The only thing is this is kind of slow. >> Yeah, right now it's slow. I think because it's a very early stage project.

Uh do you remember like you built something similar to this the autocode pro >> 3 years ago? Yeah, we built auto code pro. >> I could see like so when I was going through a GitHub repository like I could see the same uh vibe is like uh the guy has vioded it and like added like all these things together.

>> Yeah. Now Autocode Pro is the first time that we realized because for me I only learned from experimentation. This is the first time we realized oh it it wasn't very accurate like it would make mistakes.

Now I can see it's doing reasoning and it's giving back interesting stuff but back then it wasn't. So anyway it went to our cooking went to top and gave me you know the entire list of things. It says I'm cursed chicken stock.

That's the top post. Stew is missing something but we can't figure it out. That's the second post.

And third one is name the ingredients that you currently have in your pantry fridge freezer that you will never buy again after finishing what you've got. That's pretty interesting. So it went to our cooking went to top even though when it searched for cooking it got bad results.

So it made a clever decision on going here because it knew the results were not right which is very cool. AI 3 years ago wouldn't do this. It would just search for cooking whatever it got it give you.

But this is like a human being who's like well the top three posts you got when you search for the word cooking were some billionaire stuff and not related to cooking. So let me make a better decision and go to our cooking. This is awesome.

Sid reading about cooking. I'm feeling hungry. Can I order from Blinket?

>> Sure let's do that. >> Okay. Okay.

So, let's open a tab. Let's keep a tab open on Blinket. >> Yeah.

I'll give access to this tab permission. >> You have to go to every tab and click on open claw browser relay and click on >> Yes. >> Awesome.

This is cool. So, you know, it only works with like the bunch of tabs that you open and keep. >> Exactly.

>> Cool. Hey, I've opened a blinket tab. Can you order two sugarfree chewing gums?

This is very cool. Cool. Leave your computer on at home with whatever tabs you want and then you just hang out wherever you want and you have your phone and then you have this AI doing cool stuff for you.

That is awesome. It's awesome. I think everyone should have like a cloud clawbot uh sitting at home.

Open claw sitting at home doing this stuff for you. Uh okay, it says, "Yep, but I I can help, but I need two things. First, I need the blinket tab attached to the browser relay.

" So, I think you should refresh this once. Okay. And turn on the browser relay.

Just go to that extension and click on on try now. And here's the cool part. It says also I can add two free sugar chewing gums to cart and go all the way to checkout.

But I won't hit the final place order/pay without a clear send it. And in bracket it says money stuff, which is which is cool. It's thinking about my security even though I'm not.

I know this is, you know, it's part of the custom instructions from OpenCloud to tell OpenAI uh the the uh AI model not to go and make purchases on your behalf, but honestly, you can kind of change that and say, "Hey, go make purchases on my behalf and then you'll probably be able to make purchases wherever you are. " It's all about security. It's like I wish before the final purchase just a QR code was here so I could pay.

And I'm pretty sure that's possible. It's very easy to do it. Also, someone just has to do it.

I'm sure it'll be a skill for openclaw at some point. >> Uh, which is awesome. And you can see it's gone to blink it.

It's searched for sugarree chewing gum and we can see orbit and trident and happy dent and whatnot. Let's see what it what it adds. So add the orbit spearmint.

>> I can see it. So the orbit spearmint has gone from 0 to one. And you can tell it all your preferences.

I prefer cheaper things. I prefer, you know, more expensive things. Whatever.

You can like just set all your preferences. It has memory. It'll remember.

You have an assistant like >> this is like a real life Jarvis. >> I mean I spend money I have an executive assistant. I spend money on an assistant but this is like just as good.

>> Yeah. One more by the way. So exactly like what you mentioned two packs.

>> Two packs. Maybe I should have told it I want diverse two different packs. But it it listens to everyone like you know your thinking now and your clarity really matter because it really like it'll do exactly what you tell it and if you don't know exactly what you want it's going to give you the wrong thing.

So, I can see that it's added this stuff to the cart, but is not paid. It's saying now proceed to pay. It's just left a proceed to pay at the bottom.

Let's see if it makes that decision or do I need to come press proceed to pay? Will it click on that? >> In this case, actually, I'm not sure.

>> Let's see. Let's find out. My only irritation with this is slow.

>> Yeah, this one is. But if you're somewhere else and you're using WhatsApp, I mean >> like one hack if you really want to speed things up, you just like give a headless browser extension to this because right now everything is like a actual browser. So actual browser takes time to load everything but headless is much more faster.

>> And I assume in your you have a cohort, right? I assume you teach all this you teach how to do openclaw skills and stuff. >> Exactly.

>> Because it's the same cloud skills that's going on. >> Yeah. So that's why I love learning from first principles that because everything what you have learned building an agent it's essentially the same thing like LLM's memory tools with some skills and now I can like build and because you've done it in the previous generation of LLMs you're doing it now >> like this.

>> Awesome. So it says yep done. I found orbit spearmint sugar-free chewing gum 19.

8 g and set it to quantity 2. It's even summarizing what's happened. Uh I'm I'm on the cart screen with proceed to pay.

Ready to click. Say go ahead and I'll tap proceed to pay. Go ahead.

I love it. I love that it's asking me for everything. It's just such a nice executive assistant.

Wow. You know, one cool thing which I have recently started exploring, you can export all your charts from all the LMS if you're okay with that and then you can ask cloudbot to convert this into a knowledge graph. So it can understand the concepts and topics which you are interested about and then maybe it can start storing this in the superbase SQLbased database.

>> So the more it knows about me the better it's able to map what I want. >> I can see we're on the blinket payment page and it's asking me for either a credit card or UPI or whatever which I can now do on my browser. But by the way we can skip all of this.

Uh we could have just done cash on delivery. So anyway that's pretty cool. Um I think there's definitely you know some kind of executive assistance would be possible at some point.

I know blinket will do blinket skills and you can probably do it on open claw without having to go through the platform. You know we need a good service in between that can hold your card details and make smart decisions on where your card should be used and always give you the UPI code or whatever the CVB through this directly. But it's coming like someone's going to make this like this is all stuff.

If you're watching this you're already ahead of like 99% of the population. Most of them are not watching this stuff. Uh but someone who takes this stuff and makes it possible for the normies, the normal population to use is really going to be ahead of everybody else.

This is very cool. WhatsApp to browser use is excellent. Now let's go one step further.

Sid technically you could make my content process on this, right? You could open two tabs, one for HAN, one for 11 Labs, and then tell it specifically, hey, you know, find the top three posts on Reddit about cooking, make scripts about them, go to 11 Labs, generate the audio, then go to uh, you know, hey, Jen, generate the video and put it all together and send it to me. >> Technically, it can do that.

So, the only thing here is somebody needs to like understand where it breaks and exactly those are the integrations you need to build and because it's open source, so as you mentioned, you can build skills for it. And once you identify what are the things which are breaking just like fix those parts. >> Sid what do you think of like digital jobs after all of this.

>> Yeah I think uh >> I saw cloud scale for excel recently which is awesome. >> Cloud skill for excel. I use it by the way like I use it a lot.

I use cloud skill for excel. I use cloud skill for even ppts. I've designed my own.

Uh by the way I don't take help of any designer or >> by the way guys these guys teach all of this at 100x. It's called AI fluency. Now it's like you need to know what where AI what AI can do, what it cannot do, where it breaks because you could just save like half your day, right?

So Sid, I have a question here. How much roughly how much how many tokens are we using? How much are we spending on making all this happen?

>> I've been working with OpenClaw from the last 2 weeks and I've spent about like $60 to $70 and I'm not using it every single day, but you can think of 5 to 6 hours of daily usage for like a week or so. So that's the math. So roughly about $510 a day.

>> $510 a day. Yeah. >> That is expensive.

Technically I can use an open source model on my computer. Right. >> Exactly.

>> By the way, like if you want to try this out there there's a website called Open Router. You can go to Open Router and there are a lot of free models are out there. So you can connect those models to this agent >> and you can run it on your computer if you have a beefy computer.

>> Exactly. So we can use this tool called Olama. And with Olama you can install all these local models on your machine and then you can connect this with this agent.

So you don't need to pay anything while you are say burning your tokens. What do you think about giving access to your bank account? >> I think someone will make this happen.

I think within the next few months you're going to have someone make a wrapper around open claw on open claw to make it nor friendly and that's include that includes giving your card details or your UPI details. Like it's going to happen. It's like inevitable and I think whoever does it is going to do financially very well.

uh because a lot of people are going to use this and I think more than anything now for most people it needs to be clarity of what you want where you're going to use your card etc. I think banks are also going to enable this >> right they're going to be like agent made this transaction versus human made this transaction like banking system has to change after this like you want agents to make transactions on your behalf it just saves so much time >> I think just like what we have virtual cards maybe we might have agent cards in future >> yeah we're showing you a small glimpse of what can be done and I think um I know you're doing an entire series on cloud skills and stuff for your cohort which I'm very excited to see how that goes um wow what a world we live in and yes to answer your question I think at some point I will give it my bank account because it's like a long time ago we're like oh UPI you know one click what if someone scams this that but we move past that and I think they will find security measures and this is not like 5 years away this is like 6 months away a year away right like everything happens much quicker now because this is so much financial opportunity for someone to do this secondly I think there's a huge business opportunity on openclaw implementation >> right >> to go into a business find the 15 things that people do and set up openclaw on everybody's computer and just set it up to do the big opportunity and I'm sure some of you are going to go take advantage of that opportunity and build cool stuff. This is a great intro video.

Definitely check it out. Uh if you want to try it online, check out Emergent or use one of the I mean but you still have to do the same offline process online if you use a droplet but better to use Emergent. It's quicker.

Um you know they're partners on today's video as well and I know the team personally and I can vouch for the fact that you know they actually care about their customers. I just can't wait to see some of the use cases, right? It's very hard to tell what use cases become popular.

Content use case, I can think of 100. >> I can think of like a a personalized content curator for yourself because I think you can use that. >> Yeah.

Finding the absolute best stuff from the internet. >> Exactly. Exactly.

>> Which is awesome. Like maybe you could ask OpenClaw, hey, go summarize all the most underrated AI hacks from the last 30 days. find me all the most underrated cooking hacks.

Like there's just so much you can do and then just go, you know, find the best recipes for something and go order the groceries. Like you can do that, right? Because it can figure out what are those groceries required, then go to Blinket, find exactly those groceries, make sure it comes home.

>> I love it. >> Awesome. >> I'm just excited to see what people create.

Thank you so much, Sid, for doing this. And you know, typically I would have done this myself, but like I just didn't have the time this week, and I know you'd spend time on it, so I was like, why don't you come on? Let's do this.

Let's try the YouTube collab tool. Um, thank you guys for watching and make sure to subscribe to me. Make sure to subscribe to 100X Engineers and uh, yeah, please tell me in the comments what you're building.

Good ideas. Now, the ideas actually started to matter a lot. >> Bye.

See you. Bye-bye.