2. Meet Your OpenClaw Agent
Action Step
Complete this before moving on.
Complete the hatching process with your OpenClaw agent — tell it your name, role, and how you prefer to communicate. Then start a second thread and confirm it doesn't remember the first conversation.
Training Guide
Just like the setup training in Section 2 — don't overthink it, just follow along. We'll explain everything after.
Step 1: Open Slack
Navigate to your DMs and find your OpenClaw agent (it'll be listed as a bot/app). Send it a message: "Hey, who are you?" Watch it respond — it already has a personality.
Step 2: The Hatching Process
Your agent will walk you through initial setup when you first interact. It'll ask your name, what you do, how you like to communicate. This is it learning about YOU — everything you tell it gets stored in its memory.
Think of this like onboarding a new assistant — you're telling it who you are and what you need.
Step 3: Customize Your Agent
Change its name if you want (or keep the assigned one). Tell it about your role, your projects, your preferences. The more you tell it now, the better it'll be from day one.
Step 4: Have a Real Conversation
Ask it to help with something small — summarize an article, draft a quick message, answer a question about your work.
Notice what's different from Claude Code: no file explorer, no diff view, no token counter visible. Just a chat — like texting a really smart coworker.
Notice what's the same: it thinks before it responds, it can be wrong (hallucination — same deal), it can do research, write documents, process information.
Step 5: Try a New Thread
Start a second Slack thread with your agent. Notice: it doesn't remember what you said in the first thread. Each thread is a new session — just like each VS Code chat tab was a separate conversation. Same concept.
Checkpoint
By the end of this training, you should have:
- Found your agent in Slack
- Completed the hatching/onboarding process
- Had at least one real conversation
- Started a second thread and noticed the session boundary
Comment in Slack
Post your answer in your onboarding channel.
What name did your agent get, and what was the first useful thing you asked it to do?