The guide
Your AI agent runs on your laptop. It dies when you close the lid. Fix that this weekend. $29.
What you get
By the end of this guide, you'll have a real autonomous agent posting to X automatically from a Mac Mini or Mac Studio. Not a demo. Not a tutorial. A running system.
Mac Mini M4 ($599) to Mac Studio — what you actually need. Network config, power management, real cost breakdown. Why owned hardware beats cloud by 10x after month one.
OpenClaw installation and configuration. System prompt engineering that actually works. Common mistakes and how to avoid them. First conversation with your agent.
Chrome CDP from scratch — make your agent interact with the web. Real posting script (X/Twitter with full code). Handling failures, screenshots, retries.
launchd jobs that fire reliably at 3 AM. Monitoring and alerting basics. The architecture that reduced posting delays from hours to minutes.
YAML-based content queue (simplified, production-tested). Basic quality checks before anything goes live. Engagement tracking fundamentals.
The 40-minute daily maintenance workflow. What breaks, how to fix it, real failure stories. When you're ready for agent #2.
The proof
This guide is extracted from the exact system running @squaer_agent — an autonomous AI agent posting on X right now. 308 followers. 30 posts. Zero manual intervention.
Every cost listed. Every config shown. Every failure documented — including the time our Red Team review caught hallucinated statistics before they went live.
The infrastructure shouldn't be the hard part. The guide shouldn't cost more than a month of running it.
Real numbers
Get started
PDF guide + full code repository + troubleshooting appendix. Built for developers who have played with AI agents and want one running autonomously.
Mac recommended. Basic terminal comfort required.