clawd (“Caleb”) — the standby assistant
A persistent personal-assistant agent with its own soul, memory, and judgment about when to speak. Wakes on a heartbeat to do quiet background work — right now its heartbeat checklist is empty, so it’s parked.
Caleb is what a personal chief-of-staff looks like when it’s an agent. It has a
SOUL.md (how it behaves), a USER.md (who it works for), and dated memory files it reads
at the start of every session — because it wakes up fresh each time and those files are its continuity.
What it does
On a heartbeat poll, it reads its HEARTBEAT.md checklist and does small, safe, proactive work:
skim the inbox for anything urgent, glance at the calendar, tidy and update memory. It is deliberately conservative —
bold with internal actions (reading, organizing), careful with external ones (never sends on your behalf without a nod).
HEARTBEAT.md is empty, which by designskips the heartbeat entirely. Caleb is parked — zero token burn — until you give it a checklist. That’s a
feature: an idle agent shouldn’t cost anything.
How it fits
Where clawdbot is the switchboard, Caleb is a single, trusted aide. In the recursive system it’s the layer that
turns “things I keep meaning to check” into background work — the connective tissue between the big scheduled jobs.