Hi, I'm Todd Dickerson

Why this scaffold exists

I run a personal AI Chief of Staff named Ea across every project I touch — ClickFunnels, Overskill, Payments.ai, DailyDraft, and a dozen smaller bets. Same OpenClaw harness, same scaffolding, different content per project.

clawd-template is that scaffolding, stripped of secrets and personal context. Every file in it earned its way in by preventing a real failure I already lived through — a private chat leaked to a public channel, an agent that edited the wrong production app because it confused projects, a deploy that broke because the model guessed at a deprecated API.

The differentiator was never the model. It was discipline: three-layer memory, heartbeat-based proactivity, sub-agent delegation, project-context auto-inject, and a set of standing rules that hard-code the lessons. If you put those five pieces in place, the agent gets dramatically more useful overnight — regardless of which underlying model you're running.

I open-sourced it because the people building real businesses on agents shouldn't have to reinvent this every time.