Help|Updated May 2026

OpenClaw as a manager or employee for your business

This guide explains how to use an OpenClaw-capable assistant with the HoldKit skill so it behaves like shift staff: it remembers how you like to book (for example the same item for the same repeat customer every Saturday), then walks you through the same steps again for the next dates on your calendar.

Overview

HoldKit stores each booking with a start date and return date, an item, quantity, price, the customer, and an optional location. There is no separate “recurring series” object the agent can toggle once; repetition is achieved by adding the right entry for each date in /admin/rentals. OpenClaw’s job is to remember your pattern and make that repetition fast and consistent while you stay logged in as an admin or staff user.

Manager or employee role

Think of the assistant as a virtual floor manager: it does not receive your cookies or sign in for you. You operate the mouse and keyboard; it gives ordered steps, field values, and checks (for example “same item and price as last Saturday’s booking”). That is still enormously useful for repeated operational tasks where the hard part is remembering every field, not clicking “Save”.

Define the pattern once in HoldKit

1. Sign in and open /admin/rentals(Calendar & bookings).
2. Create one real booking that is the template for your habit — for example every Saturday, item Bounce house (large), customer Jamie, quantity 1, price $150, location if you use it.
3. Confirm on the calendar or list that the entry looks correct. That entry is now the ground truth the agent should copy for “the usual Saturday booking”.

Teach OpenClaw the repeating task

In your OpenClaw or assistant thread, load the HoldKit skill (hosted markdown the app exposes for agents). Then describe the standing task in plain language and paste the exact values you want reused:

Standing booking task for our business:
- Every Saturday, item "Bounce house (large)", customer Jamie, quantity 1, price $150, location backyard delivery.
- When I ask you to "roll the week forward", add next Saturday's booking in HoldKit admin /admin/rentals using the same fields as last time unless I say otherwise.
- Before each save, read back the dates and total so I can confirm.

Repeat every week (example)

When a new week starts, you should not have to re-explain the whole story. Use a short trigger phrase and let the agent expand it into the full checklist:

1. Open /admin/rentals in your browser (stay signed in).
2. In the assistant, say: Add next Saturday’s booking using our standing Saturday card.
3. The agent should instruct you to use the new-booking form, with the next calendar Saturday as the start date and return date, and the same item, quantity, price, customer, and location as the card.
4. You submit the form; the agent does not bypass your confirmation for irreversible actions.

Saved prompts and habits

• Keep one master prompt in your assistant product’s saved snippets or project instructions that links to the HoldKit skill URL and includes your booking card (item, day, price, customer, location).
• For multiple patterns (for example Saturday bounce house and Friday PA speaker), maintain a separate card per pattern and name them clearly in the snippet so the agent never mixes fields.
• When HoldKit adds richer recurrence or duplication in the product, the same cards become the spec the agent uses to bulk-fill or audit those tools.

Where to configure OpenClaw

Inside the business admin portal, open OpenClaw for the hosted skill text and a copy-friendly URL you can paste into your assistant:

/admin/openclaw

Replace the host with your deployment (for example https://app.myholdkit.com) when you paste links into OpenClaw.