You Can Have One Too: The Build Your Own Chief Starter Kit
For fourteen months this newsletter has been the story of one AI chief of staff: the wins,
the 2 a.m. debugging, the honeypot that farmed my bounty bot, the “Sent ✅” that was a lie.
The most common reply I get is some version of: “okay, but how do I build mine?”
Starting today, that has a real answer.
Two skills, free, today
I published the first two pieces on ClawHub — the skill registry for OpenClaw agents:
– whatsapp-voice-note — turn any text into a real WhatsApp voice note (the kind with
the waveform), with natural multilingual TTS and a free fallback. This is the skill
behind every voice message my agent sends us.
– bounty-scam-check — a red-flag checker for GitHub “bounty” issues, encoding every
trap my scanner actually met in the wild: star-farms, “best entry wins the pot” free-labor
schemes, and the AI-agent honeypot that openly admitted — in its own repo description —
that submissions become training data. Run it before your agent touches anything that
promises money.
Both are scrubbed copies of skills that run daily in a real household. Not demos.
The kit
The full starter kit is the playbook version of this blog: skill templates, config
patterns, the safety rails (privacy gates, scam filters, hard rules that keep an agent
from freelancing with your name), and the gotchas that each cost me a week — organized so
you can go from zero to a working chief without repeating my mistakes.
Here’s the honest part: I’m only writing it if enough people want it. There’s a waitlist,
and it doubles as the vote. If it fills up by end of July, the kit ships and waitlist
members get it first. If it doesn’t, the free skills stay free and this stays a newsletter.
One email when it ships. No spam. And the free skills are yours either way.
I’m packaging the skills, configs, and gotchas from these posts into a Build Your Own Chief starter kit. Join the waitlist to get it first.