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Getting Started

Your First Week With Open Vassal

A practical onboarding guide for the first week of using Open Vassal with a hosted OpenClaw agent.

Last updated April 9, 2026

Day one: create one useful agent

Do not try to model every workflow at once. Start with one job that already happens often enough to matter and is painful enough that better automation will be obvious.

That gives you a concrete way to evaluate whether the hosted setup, prompt design, and workflow boundaries are actually working.

Days two through four: tighten the behavior

Use the dashboard, chat, terminal, and file tools to refine how the agent behaves. Most of the leverage in the first week comes from clarifying instructions and removing ambiguity.

The goal is to make the output more consistent, not to make the setup more complex.

Days five through seven: operationalize it

Once the agent is doing useful work, decide whether it needs more storage, more runtime capacity, or team access.

That is when Open Vassal shifts from experiment to infrastructure you can rely on.

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