Openclaw has changed how I communicate work updates.
I no longer have an excuse to skip them. Or forget them. Or “circle back later.”
Every morning, a cron job analyzes my most recent commits and any uncommitted changes, generates a summary in the format:
- What I did yesterday
- What I’m working on today
…and sends it directly to our WhatsApp group.
No friction. No procrastination. No overthinking phrasing.
Setup
The Initial Failure
My first setup was… chaotic.
Instead of simply sending the generated summary, Openclaw replied to it in the WhatsApp group. As if I had posted it manually and it was politely responding to me.
Imagine this showing up in your team chat:
“You worked on …”
I ran several test messages. Each time I had to sprint to the group chat to delete them before anyone noticed the ghostwriter in the room.
The Click
The fix came from breaking the “recommended” path.
Instead of configuring the delivery method as announce and attaching the WhatsApp group ID there, I removed that entirely.
I instructed the agent directly in its system message to send the output to the WhatsApp group ID.
And suddenly it worked.
Now every morning, my commits wake up before I do.