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Run a self-hosted personal assistant on a spare Mac

Federico Viticci ran OpenClaw (then called Clawdbot) on an M4 Mac mini with Claude Opus 4.5 over Telegram for briefings, smart-home control and small automations.

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The problem

How it works

He set up an assistant named Navi on a Mac mini separate from his main computer and talked to it through Telegram, including voice notes and spoken replies. He connected it to Notion, Todoist, Gmail, Spotify, Sonos and Hue, had it send a morning report from his calendar and task data, and replaced a Zapier automation with a cron job that watches an RSS feed and creates Todoist projects.

Results and limitations

He says the assistant built many of its own skills within minutes of being asked, that he opened regular chatbot apps less often, and that he learned more about SSH, cron and APIs in a week than in years of tinkering. He reports using about 180 million API tokens.

Before you try it

Based on about a week of use, with no dollar cost or failure rate given; he describes it as a tinkerer's project. Shell and file access make it risky, and his credential-isolation guide is members-only. The page shows no publication date.

Tools and repositories

Tools
OpenClaw · Claude Opus 4.5 · Telegram · Notion · Todoist · Gmail
Prerequisites
Needs an always-on machine, a model API key with spending limits, and tokens for each connected service.

Try it yourself: Set up a daily briefing for a self-hosted assistant

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You are my personal assistant running on [Machine the assistant runs on]. Build a morning briefing that runs at [Briefing schedule] and is sent to [Delivery channel]. Use read-only access to [Calendar source] for today's events and [Task source] for tasks due today or overdue. Summarize in under 150 words: fixed appointments, the three most important tasks, and any conflicts. Before scheduling the job, show me the exact cron entry, the permissions each integration needs, and a sample briefing built from today's data. Never message anyone else, accept invites, edit tasks or spend money without asking me in chat first. Log each run to [Log file].

Run the assistant on a separate machine or account with read-only tokens, and cap API spending before leaving it on a schedule.

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  1. OpenClaw Showed Me What the Future of Personal AI Assistants Looks Like (opens in a new tab)

    First-person account · macstories.net · Undated · Source checked 9 Nov 2026, 22:17 UTC

    What this source supports
    • Ran on an M4 Mac mini with Claude Opus 4.5 via Telegram
    • Integrated Notion, Todoist, Gmail, Spotify, Sonos and Hue
    • Daily morning report and a cron job replacing a Zapier zap
    • About 180 million API tokens used
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