ARETE Workspace

Set up an AI Executive Assistant on OpenClaw in 5 minutes.

Your personal Chief of Staff — manages your schedule, captures knowledge, extracts meeting intelligence, and runs coding workflows with TDD discipline.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• OpenClaw installed and running (install guide)
• Telegram bot token (or another supported channel)

Quick Start

npx create-arete-workspace

The setup wizard walks you through:

1. Your name + assistant name
2. Telegram bot token
3. Primary domains (e.g. design, marketing, engineering)
4. Optional: Obsidian vault path, 갓생OS dashboard

What You Get

| Feature | Description | |---------|-------------| | ARETE Foundry | TDD Iron Laws, FORGE orchestrator, Decision Council (5-advisor), Cross Review pipeline | | Quick Capture | URL or text → auto-categorized knowledge note with scoring and backlinks | | Knowledge Pyramid | 4-tier system (raw → exploratory → evidence → doctrine) with auto-promotion/demotion | | Meeting Intel | Plaud recording → Whisper transcription → structured brief → personal knowledge base | | Cron Automation | Session indexer, memory distillation, weekly synthesis, backup, morning/evening briefings | | AI EA Persona | Customizable Executive Assistant with time-aware hooks and autonomous execution rules | | Obsidian (optional) | Graph view + backlinks for your knowledge base. Works without Obsidian too. |

Directory Structure

After setup, your workspace looks like:

~/arete-workspace/
├── AGENTS.md          # Agent protocols + sub-agent rules
├── BOOTSTRAP.md       # Session startup sequence
├── HEARTBEAT.md       # Recurring health checks
├── MEMORY.md          # Persistent memory + anti-bloat rules
├── SOUL.md            # EA personality + hooks + autonomy rules
├── TOOLS.md           # Local environment config
├── USER.md            # Your preferences + communication style
├── protocols/         # TDD, Knowledge Pyramid, Council Distiller, etc.
├── skills/
│   └── council/       # Decision Council (5-advisor voting)
├── scripts/
│   ├── session_indexer.py
│   ├── forge_qa.sh
│   └── tracer.py
└── memory/            # Daily logs + checkpoints

Commands

arete status    # Check workspace health
arete update    # Update to latest version

How It Works

1. You talk to your assistant via Telegram (or any OpenClaw channel)
2. The assistant uses SOUL.md for personality, AGENTS.md for protocols
3. Cron jobs run automatically: indexing sessions, distilling memory, morning briefings
4. Knowledge compounds — Quick Capture → Knowledge Pyramid → evidence/doctrine over time
5. Meetings become data — Plaud recordings → transcripts → structured briefs → searchable KB

Customization

• Edit SOUL.md to change your assistant's personality and hooks
• Edit USER.md to set your preferences and communication style
• Add domain-specific skills in skills/
• Adjust cron schedules in OpenClaw's jobs.json

License

MIT