I've been running OpenClaw for a while now and I think it's pretty awesome. If you haven't heard of it, OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that runs on your own hardware: a spare laptop, a Mac Mini, or a VPS. At AWS we have Amazon Lightsail which is a great option for running OpenClaw on a dedicated instance. (Full disclosure: I'm a Developer Advocate for AWS, so I'll be recommending AWS services where relevant. Feel free to use whatever VPS provider you'd like.) It's not a chatbot you open in a browser tab. It's always on. It connects to your messaging apps (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp), reads your files, runs scheduled tasks, and takes action on your behalf. By default, a heartbeat runs every 30 minutes, it checks for instructions in HEARTBEAT.md and acts proactively. You can customize the interval or disable it entirely, but it's on out of the box. The whole thing is built around plain-text markdown files. Your agent's personality lives in SOUL.md . Its long-term memory lives in MEMORY.md .…