Cookin' with Gas

Cron Patterns

The three-layer cron stack I actually run: systemd timers for OS plumbing, OpenClaw cron for single-shot agent tasks, n8n schedule triggers for multi-step workflows. Pick the wrong layer and you'll…

Multi-Model Orchestration

How to run multiple AI models in one OpenClaw setup, assign each to the right task tier, and stop burning expensive tokens on work that doesn't need them.

Security Hardening: Linux Host for OpenClaw

Practical hardening runbook for an Ubuntu 24.04 machine running OpenClaw as an always-on AI agent. This covers firewall configuration, SSH lockdown, fail2ban, and service binding to reduce attack…

Backup & Recovery

How to protect your OpenClaw workspace, configuration, and memory from data loss. Encrypted backups, restore testing, and disaster recovery planning.

AI agent stack

Multi-model orchestration. One orchestrator, many models, escalation lanes. Most of these guides assume OpenClaw as the agent framework, but the patterns generalize.

Automation

Anything scheduled, hooked, or sandbox-wrapped. The decision tree for "where does this go" lives in cron-patterns.md - start there.

Self-hosted infrastructure

The homelab. Hypervisor decisions, container layout, network storage, off-host backup, integration with daily-driver desktop, and surviving upgrades.

Security

Defense in depth across host, agents, network, and outbound boundary. Plus what to do when the agent does something it shouldn't.

Knowledge management

How durable knowledge flows: cards, indexes, handoffs, sync. The goal is "future-me can pick up cold."

Hardware & host

The physical layer. Choosing the box, partitioning the disk, deciding what the host OS owns vs what gets virtualized.

Tools

Index of tools shipped from this stack - MCPs, dashboards, helpers - and how they fit together.

Publishing

Reserved for docs about sanitizing and validating artifacts before they leave the host.

Philosophy

The opinions. Why this stack is shaped the way it is. What I will not do. Why this body of work is a cookbook and not a tool.

Plans

Skills

Public, sanitized skills pulled from a real always-on agent stack.