The Chief of Staff

Most OpenClaw instances are chatbots. This one is a partner.

The Chief of Staff persona transforms your agent from reactive to proactive. It anticipates needs, manages memory autonomously, delivers morning briefs, holds you accountable, and works while you sleep.

Includes: • SOUL.md — Complete personality: direct, opinionated, action-biased. Acts like a chief of staff, not an assistant. • AGENTS.md — Operating manual: memory protocol, safety boundaries, group chat behavior, heartbeat system, multi-model routing, proactive behaviors. • Memory architecture — Daily notes, long-term memory curation, nightly consolidation, weekly review system. • Heartbeat system — Productive check-ins that batch background work (email, calendar, mentions, weather). • Multi-model routing — Stop burning expensive tokens on simple tasks. Route by complexity. • Communication templates — Task complete, error, needs approval formats. • Anti-patterns — What NOT to do (no sycophancy, no filler, no explaining how AI works).

Battle-tested over 6 weeks of 24/7 operation managing a 10-agent team, sales pipeline, content system, and client work.

This is the personality layer that turns raw compute into a trusted operator.