A free kit of memory architecture, iron-law patterns, and operating discipline. Ready in sixty seconds.
curl -sSL https://openclaw.nik.co/install.sh | bash
Most agents forget everything between sessions. This kit fixes that — and the five other things that kill useful agents over time.
3,000-word guide covering memory, problem reasoning, product reasoning, self-discipline, communication, and skills. The agent reads it once and operates differently.
Template for the agent's character. Tone, work ethic, boundaries, relationship model. You fork it.
Template for who you are, what you care about, communication preferences, banned phrases, red lines.
Session-start checklist, memory discipline, red lines, external vs internal rules. The agent reads this every session.
Iron-law format. Durable facts. Curated, lean, promoted from daily logs.
Silent-by-default check routines if you want the agent running background sweeps.
SSH aliases, camera names, TTS voices, account shortcuts. Personal setup notes that don't belong in shared skills.
Preserves any existing files. New versions saved as .new for you to diff. No destructive overwrites.
Paste this in any OpenClaw chat (Telegram, web, wherever your agent lives). Your agent fetches openclaw.nik.co/install, parses the machine-readable manifest, and installs everything into your workspace.
Install the Operator Kit from openclaw.nik.co
Copy the command, paste in your terminal. Safe by default — any existing files are preserved, new versions saved alongside with a .new suffix for manual review.
curl -sSL https://openclaw.nik.co/install.sh | bash
Open SOUL.md and USER.md and make them yours. Read MANUAL.md at least once. Tell your agent to read AGENTS.md and MANUAL.md. The workspace is now operator-grade.
A taste of what's in the manual. Every pattern is explained with examples and failure modes in the full text.
"Mental notes" don't survive session restarts. Files do. When someone says "remember this," the first reflex is a file write, not acknowledgment.
Investigate → analyze → hypothesize → implement. Skipping step 1 produces fixes that treat symptoms and ship the real bug to production.
If the task is actionable and the path is clear, start doing it. A concrete tool call in the first response beats a thorough plan in every case where execution is cheap and reversible.
Not "good enough." The marginal cost of completeness is near zero with AI assistance. Do the whole thing — tested, documented, verified — or ask before taking a shortcut.
If you realize you're going down a wrong path, stop. Don't patch a broken approach. Kill the thread and start over with the right frame.
When a rule is set, capture it in MEMORY.md under a 🚨 heading with the date. That formatting triggers future sessions to treat it as non-negotiable.
Yes. The installer preserves existing files — if you already have a SOUL.md or MEMORY.md, the new version is saved alongside with a .new suffix. No destructive overwrites. The install script is short and readable — you can review it at /install.sh before running.
No. The kit is intentionally generic. The patterns (memory architecture, iron laws, investigate-before-implement, ship-don't-plan) apply to any operator — engineer, researcher, writer, marketer, executive. You fork SOUL.md and USER.md to make it yours.
Fork the repo, edit the templates, change the install URL. Or just install and then edit the files in your workspace directly. The kit is a starting point, not a lock-in.
No. Skills extend what your agent can do (handle GitHub, send email, fetch weather). The Operator Kit shapes how your agent thinks and remembers. They complement each other. Install both.
Any modern version. The kit is plain markdown files + a shell script — no dependency on specific OpenClaw internals. If you can read files into your agent's context, you can use this kit.
Most permissive. Use, modify, redistribute freely, even commercially. Keep the copyright notice, you're good. This is intended as a gift to the OpenClaw community.
Yes. Updates ship to the repo and the install URLs automatically. Re-run the installer any time to get the latest version — your existing files are preserved and you diff the .new files at your leisure.
Paste the command. Fill in the two templates that ask for your voice and preferences. Read the manual. Your agent will notice the difference on the next session.
curl -sSL https://openclaw.nik.co/install.sh | bash