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[Ian Nuttall](https://ian.is/)

# Give your personal agent reliable local tools

February 21, 2026

seeing a lot of people say their openclaw dies/doesn’t respond often

PRO TIP: build your own local-first api/cli tools for it and keep your personal agent “dumber”

I have:

\- my own cron system
\- an event system to wake agent up from scripts
\- [http://keep.md](http://keep.md/) to fetch x bookmarks
\- my own agent-first email marketing cli - a trained blog/email draft writer
\- a google search console cli for improving my seo
\- etc

build your own tools don’t ask the agent to do everything!

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