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.