personal-assistant-stacklisted

How Walter-OS thinks about a personal AI assistant that handles inbound messages (WhatsApp/Telegram/iMessage/Instagram), can reply for you, surfaces the urgent stuff, creates calendar events from chat context, and uses your LLM subscription rather than per-token API spend. Use this skill when the user asks "what's my personal assistant strategy", "should I use OpenClaw vs a custom bot", "how do I let the AI reply to my messages", "how do I route AI cost via subscription". Decision tree below.
Xipher-Labs/walter-os · ★ 5 · AI & Automation · score 67

Install: claude install-skill Xipher-Labs/walter-os

# Walter-OS personal assistant stack — the answer is one assistant, not three ## The core decision Three Telegram bots is the wrong shape. The right shape: | Bot | Role | Surface | |---|---|---| | `@${WALTER_TELEGRAM_BOT_HANDLE}` | Outbound alerts only | Walter-VM monitors → push to me | | `@${WALTER_OPENCLAW_BOT_HANDLE}` | Personal assistant — bidirectional | I talk to it, it reads my messages, it replies for me | **No third bot.** OpenClaw IS the personal assistant. Adding a third loses the context boundary (the assistant can't see what the alerter sent without a relay) and adds another auth surface to manage. ## What OpenClaw covers OpenClaw (openclaw.ai, self-hosted, Node 24+) connects to ALL of: - WhatsApp (via Beeper or direct WA Business API) - Telegram (the bot for outbound, plus your user account for read-only inbox) - Slack, Discord, Google Chat - iMessage, Signal (via Beeper bridge) - Microsoft Teams, Matrix, Mattermost - Instagram DMs (via Beeper bridge) It's **bidirectional**: you message it, it reads on your behalf, it replies when you authorize, it summarizes when you ask, it pings you on what matters. ## How it answers your specific use cases ### "Reply to messages for me when I'm busy" Pattern: **pairing + pre-approved auto-reply rules**. - New WhatsApp arrives → OpenClaw scores priority (urgent / can-wait / ignore) - For "can-wait": auto-reply "Hey, I got your message and will answer in X hours" using a template you defined for the contact's lo