Usage Examples

The actual use cases of Petclaw include but are not limited to search and research, work automation, communication and collaboration, development engineering, proxy memory, and content processing.

1. Work Automation, Task Management, and Schedule Reminders

Pain Point

Our daily work is not difficult, but repetitive: organizing emails, summarizing daily reports, processing spreadsheets, scheduling appointments, following up on to-dos, generating weekly reports, and archiving documents. These individual tasks are not complex, but doing them repeatedly every day is time-consuming.

What It Does

  • Automatically read meeting minutes, emails, chat records, spreadsheets, or documents.
  • Helps you extract to-dos, responsible persons, deadlines, and key decisions.
  • Automatically sync to task systems, calendars, or team collaboration tools.
  • Automatically generate daily reports, weekly reports, and project progress summaries.
  • Reminders and follow-up tracking can be set up to reduce the situation of "forgetting after the meeting".

You can say this to Petclaw

  • "Remind me to attend a meeting at 4:30 PM tomorrow"

Please note that sometimes you may find that PetClaw tells you that a schedule has been added, but the schedule does not appear in the calendar. You need to tell it to add the schedule according to the format of the system date on my computer.

  • "Sync today's tasks to Reminder"
  • "Record this week's token/model expenses"
  • "I'm going on a business trip to Tokyo on March 14th. Please remind me in the coming week about the destination's temperature, rainfall probability, clothing suggestions, and items to bring."
  • "Read the sent and received messages in Feishu over the past 24 hours, generate a weekly report, and adjust subsequent summary preferences based on my feedback."

2. Email, Messages, and Team Collaboration

Pain Point

The most common problem with team collaboration is that messages are scattered across Telegram, Discord, Slack, email, group chats, and documents, with inconsistent responses, making it easy to miss follow-ups.

What It Does

  • Send, receive, and read emails.
  • Connect to the Google Work Ecosystem.
  • View and operate the calendar.
  • Connect multiple communication channels under the same agent for unified processing.
  • Automatically aggregate messages from different channels, customer issues, follow-up status, and historical context.
  • Helps you generate reply drafts in a unified style.
  • Can distribute according to rules: who should reply, who should approve, and which should be escalated for handling.
  • It can also write the communication results back to CRM, task systems, or project documents.

Skills You Need

  • Access to messaging channels such as Telegram / Discord / Slack / Email / Lark / DingTalk
  • CRM or contact management capabilities
  • Document recording ability
  • Optional: Automatic reminder, Approval flow, Tag routing

How to Set It Up

  1. First, determine the main entry point: is it Telegram, Discord, or email?
  2. Connect secondary channels, but do not implement complex automated responses for now.
  3. Establish a set of message classification rules:
    • Customer Consultation
    • Internal Communication
    • To be approved
    • Urgent issue
  4. First, let Petclaw only perform "aggregation + draft + classification".
  5. After it stabilizes, let it automatically synchronize to CRM, Task Board, or Knowledge Base.

You can say this to Petclaw

  • "Summarize my email today"
  • "Check the discussion of a certain project on Slack"
  • "Check my Google Calendar and add an event"
  • "Connect External CalDAV Calendar"

3. Search, Information Gathering, and Research

Let Petclaw find information, read web pages, conduct verification, etc. on its own.

Specific Use

  • General Web Search and Supplementary Retrieval
  • Multi-source research and in-depth study
  • Social Media Platform Content Search
  • Web authenticity verification, page operation, web scraping
  • Location, Merchant, and Trend Information Search

Pain Point

Many people's research processes are very fragmented: one moment they're searching Google, the next they're browsing Reddit/X, then they're looking at competing product websites, and then they're manually organizing information into documents. In the end, they spend a lot of time, but the conclusions they reach are not necessarily complete, especially likely to miss real user pain points, market trends, and competing product dynamics.

What It Does

  • Automatically search and aggregate from multiple information sources, such as web pages, communities, social media, news, forums, and competing product sites.
  • Helps you distill the core conclusions rather than simply piling up links.
  • Automatically summarize user complaints, needs, keywords, trend changes, and competing product actions.
  • You can continue to work on it: organize the research results into reports, tables, opportunity lists, or even directly enter the product proposal or content topic selection stage.

Skills You Need

  • Search skills such as Web Search / Brave Search / Tavily / Perplexity
  • Search skills for platforms such as Reddit / X / LinkedIn / Bird / Search-X
  • File read and write capabilities, used to save reports
  • Optional: Scheduled task capability for daily, weekly, competing product monitoring

How to Set It Up

  1. First, clarify the object you want to study: industry, product, competing product, Target User, or a specific problem.
  2. Clarify that Petclaw requires a retrieval platform.
  3. If you need to conduct a long-term study or generate multi-day summary reports and reviews, please ask Petclaw to create a fixed output directory, such as research/, to store the original crawls, summaries, and final reports.
  4. Clearly write out the fixed instruction template, for example:
    • Search for discussions in the last 30 days
    • Extract high-frequency questions and user's exact words
    • Output 5 opportunity points and 3 risk points
  5. When continuous monitoring is required, add scheduled execution and message notification.

You can say this to Petclaw

  • "Check the latest news of a certain channel on Discord"

4. Social Media Information Aggregation

Let Petclaw automatically aggregate content from Reddit, YouTube for you every day, or expand to sources such as X, GitHub, RSS, etc., to generate a "Daily Featured Summary" that is truly relevant to the content you follow.

Specific Use

  • Quickly learn about updates and information on subscribed content or content of interest.
  • We Media creators conduct social media content insights and analysis.
  • Collect and analyze industry information.
  • Retrieve the latest developments, public opinions, etc. of a certain thing.

Corresponding Skills

  • PetClaw AI News
  • Web Search
  • Secure Web Browser
  • Summarize
  • X / Twitter

What It Does

Get the latest videos from your favorite channel list, summarize or extract key insights from each video transcript, and provide you with summaries daily (or on demand).

Petclaw is most suitable for handling 4 tasks in this scenario:

  1. Helps you target and monitor content sources: You can tell it which subreddits, YouTube channels, keywords you care about, and even which RSS feeds, X accounts, and GitHub projects.
  2. Automatically capture "new content" for you: The YouTube case will capture the latest videos and read transcripts; the Reddit case will capture hot/new/top posts.
  3. Automatically filters and summarizes for you: The YouTube case compresses each video into 2–3 key points; the multi-source news case conducts quality scoring, deduplication, and then outputs a digest.
  4. Send it to you proactively at a fixed time: Tell Petclaw when you want to receive the content.

How to Set It Up

  1. Step 1: Tell Petclaw which sources you want to track (e.g., subreddit lists, YouTube channel names, keywords).
  2. Step 2: Tell it your filtering preferences (e.g., no entertainment content, prioritize high-quality discussions).
  3. Step 3: Tell it the sending time (e.g., 8:00 every morning).
  4. Step 4: Tell it the content and format of the output (e.g., theme, main content, structural outline).
  5. Step 5: Let it run for a trial day.

You can say this to Petclaw

  • "Read Reddit's Best Picks Every Day"
  • "Watch YouTube Channel Updates Every Day"
  • "Monitor YouTube by Keywords"
  • "Comprehensive Tech News Summary"

5. Proxy Memory and Knowledge Management

Petclaw helps you organize scattered thoughts, conversations, and information into structured knowledge assets.

You can say this to Petclaw

  • "Transfer note memory to Obsidian"
  • "Update the Notion page and add this content to my database"
  • "Organize this conversation into a knowledge asset and save it to Second Brain"
  • "Organize these scattered thoughts into a list and save them as searchable notes"
  • "Help me review the AI Agent ideas I previously recorded"

Step-by-Step Example

  1. Record a thought: "Desktop AI assistants may become the new entry point for operating systems."
  1. Organize the idea: "Organize the idea just now into a knowledge card and add it to my Knowledge Base."
  1. Synchronize: "Synchronize this knowledge to Obsidian."
  1. Ask again later: "What AI product ideas have I recorded today?"

6. Security, Password, and Proxy Protection

Suitable for account management, security self-checks, and prompt injection protection.

Typical Scenarios

  • "Check certain credential/password item"
  • "Prevent Web Content Pollution Prompt Link"
  • "Check for any obvious risks in the current configuration"

Note: The official security documentation emphasizes that execution approval is a guardrail, not strong isolation. True security relies on sandboxing and host isolation. These skills are for assistance, not a replacement for system security.

7. Education, Learning, and Specialized Tutoring

This category is not currently mainstream in the top list, but a clear vertical has already emerged.

Specific Use

  • Subject Tutoring
  • Specialized Knowledge Assistance
  • Teaching content search and organization

corresponds to skills

  • gaokao-history-tutor

Typical Scenarios

  • "Provide historical knowledge tutoring / question explanations" → gaokao-history-tutor

If the OpenClaw vertical library continues to expand in the future, the number of such classes will increase.

8. Influencer Marketing

Specific Use

  • Influencer Screening: Find the right partners based on niche and engagement.
  • Contact Extraction: Automatically find public contact info for outreach.
  • Connection Building: Generate and send personalized introductory emails.
  • Automated Follow-up: Handle bargaining and follow-up sequences automatically.
Usage Examples