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In this full OpenClaw course, I walk you through everything from initial VPS setup to advanced configuration, skills, memory, voice integration, and automation. We’ll cover Docker, gateway access, SSH, model configuration and cost optimization, Telegram integration, speech-to-text, coding skills, markdown system files like IDENTITY and USER, SOUL.md, HEARTBEAT.md, cronjobs, and more. If you want to run powerful AI agents on your own infrastructure and actually understand how the system works under the hood, this is for you.

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🎞 Video Resources 🎞
QMD Backend: https://docs.openclaw.ai/concepts/memory
Secure Setup Guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnsrnsy_Lus

⏳ Timestamps ⏳
00:00 | Overview 
00:27 | Security Warning
03:07 | VPS Setup
06:00 | Understanding Docker
06:50 | Accessing the Gateway
07:34 | LLM Limits
09:00 | SSHing Into the Server
11:06 | Model Configuration & Cost Saving
18:00 | Telegram Configuration
20:10 | Adding Voice & Speech-to-Text
23:07 | Telegram Groups & Channels
26:30 | Understanding Skill
28:15 | Viewing Skills and Markdown Files
31:45 | Enabling Coding Skills
34:20 | Memory & Preferences
38:17 | Important Markdown Files (IDENTITY, USER, etc.)
40:28 | SOUL.md
41:24 | HEARTBEAT.md
44:28 | Cronjobs

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A comprehensive walkthrough for setting up and configuring OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI agent framework. Covers deploying on a VPS via Hostinger, configuring LLM providers (Anthropic Opus and OpenAI Codex) with cost-saving model-switching strategies, connecting Telegram with voice transcription via Whisper, creating and managing skills (including custom markdown-based skills), setting up persistent memory with vector search using QDrant, configuring identity/user/soul files, using heartbeats for recurring tasks, and scheduling cron jobs. Emphasizes treating OpenClaw as an untrusted assistant for security, using separate accounts for integrations, and leveraging sub-agents for parallel task execution.

OpenClaw Full Course: Setup, Skills, Voice, Memory & More