Chapter 24: Project - Build Your AI Employee
You've learned the pieces. Now build something real.
This is a project. You'll build a working AI Employee for YOUR profession using NanoClaw: the same tool you set up in the "NanoClaw Hands-On Setup" lesson from "Meet Your First AI Employee - OpenClaw". No new installations, no architecture lectures. Just challenges, acceptance criteria, and your professional expertise.
Prerequisites
- "NanoClaw Hands-On Setup" complete (from "Meet Your First AI Employee - OpenClaw"): NanoClaw installed, running, WhatsApp connected
- Layer 3 design from "NanoClaw Hands-On Setup": Your blueprint with 3+ Agent Skills and 3+ MCP servers for your profession
- Part 2 foundations complete: File Processing, Computation and Data Extraction, Structured Data and Persistent Storage, Linux Mastery, and Version Control
Three Achievement Tiers
| Tier | Path | Time | What You Get |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze | The Project Brief through Bronze Capstone: First Real Day | ~3 hours | Working AI Employee: identity + skill + connection + proof |
| Silver | The Project Brief through Prove Professional Value | ~6 hours | + autonomous monitoring + trust boundaries + persistent memory + domain report |
| Gold | The Project Brief through Prove Professional Value (Gold track) | ~9 hours | + multi-group architecture with isolation + memory isolation |
Pick the tier that matches your available time and ambition. You can always come back for the next tier later.
Lessons
The Brief
| Lesson | Duration |
|---|---|
| The Project Brief | 20 min |
Bronze Tier: Working AI Employee
| Lesson | Duration |
|---|---|
| Give Your Employee an Identity | 30 min |
| Teach Your Employee a Skill | 40 min |
| Connect Your Employee to the World | 35 min |
| Bronze Capstone: First Real Day | 45 min |
Silver Tier: Proactive + Trusted + Learning
| Lesson | Duration |
|---|---|
| Make Your Employee Proactive | 40 min |
| Teach Your Employee Boundaries | 40 min |
| Give Your Employee a Memory | 40 min |
| Prove Professional Value | 55 min |
Project Review
| Lesson | Duration |
|---|---|
| Project Review | 25 min |
Student Deliverables (GitHub Repo)
nanoclaw-employee/
├── groups/
│ ├── global/CLAUDE.md (shared rules)
│ └── main/CLAUDE.md (profession-specific identity)
├── .claude/skills/{domain-skill}/
│ └── SKILL.md (from Layer 3 design)
├── conversation-log.md (Bronze: First Real Day)
├── evaluation.md (Bronze: self-assessment)
├── scheduler-config.md (Silver: scheduled task design)
├── hitl-boundaries.md (Silver: permission table)
├── memory-config.md (Silver: action log + knowledge store schemas)
└── domain-report-sample.md (Silver: generated report)
Gold adds: 3-group config + isolation demo + system diagram + memory isolation test.
Design Philosophy
This project doesn't teach NanoClaw: you already know it. Instead, each lesson gives you:
- A challenge with clear acceptance criteria
- A use case gallery with profession-specific examples
- Graduated hints (3 levels) for when you're stuck
Your Layer 3 design from the "NanoClaw Hands-On Setup" lesson in "Meet Your First AI Employee - OpenClaw" is your blueprint. This project is where you execute it.