Current digital worker tools like OpenClaw have several inefficiencies that hinder productivity and ease of use. Users often face high token usage, complex setup processes, and lack of proactive task management. Additionally, these tools often lack consistent formatting for output artifacts and have limited memory capabilities, leading to repeated mistakes and inefficiencies.
Pain Points
- High token usage leading to increased costs
- Complex setup and usage processes
- Lack of proactive task management
- Inconsistent formatting of output artifacts
- Limited memory capabilities leading to repeated mistakes
Our team spent more than 6 months building a proactive digital worker independently from OpenClaw (not an OpenClaw wrapper). It solves some of OpenClaw's current pain points: **Saves more tokens:** smart action retrieval and task mode switching mean the agent only loads what it needs, when it needs it. **Simple to set up and use:** clone the repo, run one command, and a browser interface launches. That's it. (Python and Node.js required though!) **Proactive:** a built-in planner that plans and initiates tasks for you, with your approval. Define your goals, and work toward them on a schedule. Different from heartbeat, this runs once per day to propose proactive tasks, while the heartbeat is used only for recurring tasks. **Memory:** every night 3AM, it "dreams" to consolidate the day's events into preferences, mistakes, events, and long-term memory about your tasks and habits. Here is the implementation in detail: store events in [EVENT.md](http://event.md/) \-> read the events and distill them in [MEMORY.md](http://memory.md/) \-> retrieve memory snippet with RAG -> agent reads the [MEMORY.md](http://memory.md/) if the snippets are relevant. [**FORMAT.md**](http://FORMAT.md)**:** Agent sometimes outputs artifacts (PDF, PowerPoint) without consistency. We integrated [FORMAT.md](http://format.md/) into CraftBot, so it can follow a format and design schema when generating files. etc, etc. However, is CraftBot better than OpenClaw? Likely not. Does CraftBot have parts that are better than OpenClaw? Sure. But for a very long period, we have been building toward a stable version and have not market our work publicly. The result is, 100 Github stars in 6 months + 650 commits, a small group of happy tester but no traction beyond that. So, I am gonna put this out today, you can check out how we built it, and give this proactive digital worker a try. Let us know your user experience, and I would love to build toward your preference. Happy automating! Repo link in the comment.
A proactive digital worker that solves some of the current pain points of OpenClaw. It offers smart action retrieval, simple setup, proactive task management, and enhanced memory capabilities. CraftBot also ensures consistent formatting of output artifacts.