The n8n Masterclass

Building an Open Claw Clone in n8n | Full Walkthrough and Template

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Mar 11, 2026
A step-by-step rebuild of Open Claw’s core inside n8n with full visibility and customization. They cover multi-channel messaging across Telegram, WhatsApp, and Slack. The system uses tiered AI workers for cost and speed, autonomous task management with heartbeat scheduling, and Google Drive and email integrations. Long-term vector memory, document ingestion, and research agents for web and Wikipedia are also explored.
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INSIGHT

Make The User Profile A Living Document

  • Treat the user profile as a living document the agent can update when priorities or preferences change.
  • The n8n data table stores initial user info and the system prompt instructs the agent to upsert relevant fields.
INSIGHT

Tiered Agents Optimize Speed And Cost

  • Use a tiered worker-agent system to balance cost and latency by escalating tasks to stronger models only when needed.
  • Shabbir uses Claude Haiku, Sonnet, then Opus as progressively stronger workers for speed/cost optimization.
ADVICE

Use Heartbeat Triggers For Autonomous Task Execution

  • Schedule a heartbeat trigger that periodically checks pending tasks and starts work autonomously.
  • Shabbir set a scheduled workflow with a hardcoded prompt 'check the tasks, see what's still pending and start working on it'.
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