Building an AI WhatsApp Agent with OpenClaw: A Practical Field Guide

This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge About this Series I built an agent to monitor and respond to my WhatsApp messages, managing memory, history, and relationships with contacts, running on a blazing fast inference layer within a capped token budget. Most of what you'll read here I learned the hard way. Series: A five-part series on building a real, production-minded AI agent: multilingual, multimodal, and connected to WhatsApp on a 1M token/day budget. # Title What You'll Lea