Descriptions:
Peter Yang delivers a thorough walkthrough of OpenClaw — an open-source personal AI assistant that runs on a dedicated local machine — covering secure setup, Google Workspace integration, and five practical use cases he has built into his own daily workflow. The video is recorded directly from the Mac Mini where his bot, named Zoe, is running.
The setup section is notably specific: Yang recommends running OpenClaw on a dedicated computer (he uses a Mac Mini), registering it with its own Apple ID and Gmail account, running the built-in security audit via terminal (`claudebot security audit-deep`), and giving it read-only access to your main calendar with write access only to explicitly shared files. He also highlights a real-world cautionary example of an OpenClaw-based app that leaked user data when connected to public channels.
The five use cases demonstrate progressively more sophisticated integrations. Calendar management shows Zoe creating a CalTrain invite by querying live schedules and sending it as a calendar attendee. Document editing uses a shared Google Sheet as a living personal context file. The daily briefing aggregates weather, calendar events, trending AI topics from Zoe’s Twitter read access, and a personalized reflection drawn from memory. Most technically interesting is the weekly creator report: since Substack has no public API, Yang added Zoe as an admin so she can browse the dashboard directly and extract stats. YouTube analytics are pulled via yt-dlp. Each use case includes enough implementation detail to serve as a starting point for replication.
📺 Source: Peter Yang · Published February 04, 2026
🏷️ Format: Tutorial Demo
