Set Up Your Own OpenClaw Agent on a VPS - Enkamind workshop, Chennai
Sat 25 Jul 2026 · Chennai

Run your own always-on AI agent on a VPS.

In three hands-on hours you stand up OpenClaw on your own VPS - a self-hosted personal AI agent that lives in Telegram and WhatsApp, triages your email, fetches and summarizes things on its own, and runs tasks on a schedule. You walk out with a running agent, not slides.

🗓 Sat 25 Jul 2026 🕘 3 hours · 2 PM - 5 PM 📍 Chennai · in-person 💺 10 seats ₹1,999 · one-time
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▎ What you'll build

You leave with the real thing - not notes.

✓A self-hosted OpenClaw daemon running 24/7 on your VPS, surviving reboots via a systemd user service
✓A Telegram bot (and optional WhatsApp pairing) you chat with to command the agent from your phone
✓An email-triage routine that scans Gmail, categorizes by urgency, and posts a morning digest
✓A 'fetch and summarize' skill - point it at a URL or YouTube video, get a summary in chat
✓A cron-scheduled routine (e.g. 7am daily briefing) that runs unattended and only pings you when a decision is needed
▎ The 3 hours, block by block

Hands-on the whole way.

Block 1

Stand up the agent

  • Provision and SSH into the VPS, install Node and OpenClaw
  • Run the onboarding to install the daemon, wire an LLM provider key, enable boot persistence
  • Connect Telegram via a BotFather token with a chat allow-list and verify a round-trip message
Block 2

Give it skills

  • Install the Gmail skill and build an email-triage prompt - Urgent / Important / FYI / Skip
  • Add a fetch + YouTube summarize skill and test it live from chat
  • Optional WhatsApp pairing and a look at the skill model
Block 3

Make it autonomous and safe

  • Schedule a cron routine and watch it fire
  • Lock it down with channel allow-lists, sandboxing, and the built-in security audit
  • Prompt-injection awareness, cost notes, and where to take it next

Who it's for

  • Software engineers comfortable in a terminal who want a personal agent they fully control
  • Founders who want to automate inbox triage, research, and routine ops without gluing together SaaS
  • Builders curious about self-hosted agents and skill-based automation

What to bring

  • A laptop with SSH and a terminal (Mac, Linux, or Windows with WSL)
  • A VPS you can SSH into as root/sudo (2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM recommended) - we share provider options beforehand
  • An LLM provider API key with a small amount of credit
  • A Telegram account and a bot token from BotFather, plus a Gmail account for the triage exercise (WhatsApp optional)
▎ By the end

What's true when you walk out.

✓Your OpenClaw agent is live on your own VPS and reachable from your phone via Telegram
✓It can read and triage your email and summarize a link or video on request
✓At least one scheduled routine runs unattended, and you know how to lock the agent down before exposing it
▎ Tools you'll touch
OpenClawNode.jsnpma VPSsystemdTelegram Bot API (BotFather)WhatsApp pairingGmail skillcron jobsOpenAI/Anthropic LLM API
▎ Who teaches
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Your instructor

Workshop instructor

I've spent 22+ years building software for enterprises - full-stack apps, backend systems, and lately RAG pipelines and agentic AI solutions. I've shipped the hard stuff for big companies. These workshops are that experience, distilled into one hands-on room so you can ship your own.

▎ Questions

Before you sign up.

Do I need to be a strong programmer?

You should be comfortable with the command line and SSH; you do not need to write application code, since OpenClaw is configured and driven through its CLI and chat.

What will this cost to run after the workshop?

A small VPS (roughly a few dollars a month) plus your LLM provider's usage-based API costs. OpenClaw itself is free and open source.

Is it safe to let an agent read my email and run on a server?

It carries real risk like prompt injection, which is why the last block covers channel allow-lists, sandboxing, and the built-in security audit before you connect anything sensitive.

Set Up Your Own OpenClaw Agent on a VPS

Sat 25 Jul 2026 · 3 hours · 2 PM - 5 PM · Chennai · 10 seats. Drop your email and we'll tell you the moment booking opens.