Automate Your Work Rituals

Set up meeting prep, email triage, and scheduled summaries that run on their own.

By the end of this page, your agent will be running your recurring work rituals automatically — no daily setup required.

Time: ~20 minutes

Work rituals worth automating

The best automations are things you do every day anyway and find tedious. Common ones:

Meeting prep — pull agenda and context before each meeting
Email triage — morning summary of what needs attention
EOD review — end-of-day summary of what got done
Weekly digest — Friday afternoon recap of the week

These all follow the same pattern: schedule + prompt + channel.

Meeting prep automation

This assumes you've connected the Google Calendar skill (see Add Work Skills). A meeting prep automation:

{
  "automations": [
    {
      "id": "meeting-prep",
      "schedule": "0 8 * * 1-5",
      "prompt": "Check my calendar for today. For each meeting: list the title, time, and attendees. If there are any recurring meetings, add a reminder of the usual agenda. Flag anything that needs preparation. Format as a clean list.",
      "channel": "slack",
      "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
    }
  ]
}

Replace D0123456789 with your Slack DM channel ID (your bot's DM with you). To find it: open the DM, copy the channel ID from the URL.

Email triage automation

With Gmail connected:

{
  "id": "email-triage",
  "schedule": "0 8 * * 1-5",
  "prompt": "Fetch unread emails from the last 18 hours (Gmail). Group them: (1) needs reply today, (2) FYI only, (3) can wait. For each in group 1, give me a one-line summary and suggested action. Skip newsletters and automated emails.",
  "channel": "slack",
  "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
}

EOD review automation

{
  "id": "eod-review",
  "schedule": "0 17 * * 1-5",
  "prompt": "End-of-day check. Look at my calendar — what meetings happened today? Check MEMORY.md for any tasks I noted. Give me a 3-bullet summary: what happened, what's pending, what I should prioritize tomorrow. Keep it short.",
  "channel": "slack",
  "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
}

Weekly digest automation

{
  "id": "weekly-digest",
  "schedule": "0 16 * * 5",
  "prompt": "It's Friday afternoon. Give me a weekly digest: what happened this week (from calendar), what's coming next week, and one thing I should do before Monday. 5-8 lines.",
  "channel": "slack",
  "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
}

Add all automations at once

Here's the full automations array with all four:

{
  "automations": [
    {
      "id": "meeting-prep",
      "schedule": "0 8 * * 1-5",
      "prompt": "Check my calendar for today. For each meeting: title, time, attendees, what needs prep. Clean list format.",
      "channel": "slack",
      "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
    },
    {
      "id": "email-triage",
      "schedule": "0 8 * * 1-5",
      "prompt": "Fetch unread emails (Gmail, last 18 hours). Group: needs reply, FYI, can wait. For group 1, give summary + suggested action.",
      "channel": "slack",
      "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
    },
    {
      "id": "eod-review",
      "schedule": "0 17 * * 1-5",
      "prompt": "EOD review: what meetings happened (calendar), pending tasks (MEMORY.md), top 3 priorities for tomorrow. 5 lines max.",
      "channel": "slack",
      "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
    },
    {
      "id": "weekly-digest",
      "schedule": "0 16 * * 5",
      "prompt": "Weekly digest: what happened, what's next week, one thing to do before Monday. 8 lines max.",
      "channel": "slack",
      "slackChannel": "D0123456789"
    }
  ]
}

Test them

After updating config:

openclaw gateway restart
openclaw cron list
openclaw cron run meeting-prep

Check Slack. Adjust the prompt if the output isn't what you wanted.