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29 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
“While I don't recommend people edit the soul by hand, it's sometimes really useful to edit the tools document by hand because there's just some nuances in how you might want it to read your calendar or search the web, or I use Linear as tasking kind of substrate for my agents, how you might want it to use Linear. And so the tools markdown file is a really useful one.”
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- Claire Vo
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- 29 Mar 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…This project is resourced and yeah, people are working on it. Okay. What about the memory piece? A lot of people complain it's forgetting stuff. You mentioned that. Do you have any advice for hardening the memory or just treating it a different way? I think less about hardening memory and more about, one, managing context. So when I start to think, wow, we've been talking about this thing for a long time, doing a check-in and saying, "Make sure to write all this to your memory in case it gets compacted or Make sure our to do list is updated with the latest," is a really good use case. And there's some hooks that you can call inside of OpenClaw to do that automatically. And I think about it, maybe again, going back to managing an employee. If you leave a meeting, somebody takes the action items. So if you're leaving a discussion about a topic, make sure you check in and say, "Do you have all the action items? Are the notes written down in a place that we can work on?" Again, it's just like this operational hygiene that goes a long way to making your OpenClaw efficient. And then the thing that I find it forgets the most that people don't think about enough is what tools it can use and how. And so I've heard a million times, "I can't read that email address." And I'm like, "Dude, you can definitely read that email address." And so there is a tools.md that lists all the tools it has access to and how you want it to use the tools. While I don't recommend people edit the soul by hand, it's sometimes really useful to edit the tools document by hand because there's just some nuances in how you might want it to read your calendar or search the web, or I use Linear as tasking kind of substrate for my agents, how you might want it to use Linear. And so the tools markdown file is a really useful one. So for the memory piece, you're not doing anything fancy. There's all these databases that are launching and okay. You're just using plain old memory and then-…
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