afterself

What This Skill Does

Afterself is a specialized digital legacy agent designed to manage your post-mortem or extended-absence digital presence through an automated dead man's switch. It operates directly within your OpenClaw environment, ensuring that your data remains local while providing a robust infrastructure to execute your final wishes. The skill handles three primary pillars: Heartbeat monitoring to ensure you are active, Executor services to dispatch messages or files upon confirmation of absence, and Ghost mode to simulate your communication style based on your established persona profile.

Afterself is built on a strict ethics framework prioritizing consent and local data sovereignty. It interacts with your system through a state-management script, allowing for fine-grained control over heartbeat intervals, alert escalation, and audit logging.

Installation

To install the Afterself agent, run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/afterself/afterself

After installation, ensure you have initialized your configuration settings via node {baseDir}/scripts/state.js config set to define your preferred heartbeat intervals and contact escalation list.

Use Cases

• Digital Estate Planning: Securely store and automate the release of sensitive information, crypto wallet access, or final letters to loved ones.
• Account Management: Automate the orderly closure or handover of accounts that require manual intervention.
• Persona Preservation: Enable 'Ghost Mode' for educational, creative, or legacy purposes, allowing the AI to continue answering questions based on your unique tone and knowledge base long after you have moved on.
• Emergency Safety: Use the heartbeat as a high-stakes check-in system for solo travelers or people in high-risk environments.

Example Prompts

1. "Afterself, configure my heartbeat to check in every 72 hours and add my partner as the primary contact for escalation."
2. "Afterself, draft a final message for my family and store it in the executor vault to be released only if I fail to respond for two consecutive ping cycles."
3. "Afterself, analyze my chat history and activate ghost mode to respond to professional inquiries in my voice."

Tips & Limitations

• Security First: Since Afterself handles sensitive credentials and personal data, always ensure your disk is encrypted. Data never leaves your machine unless you specifically authorize a network-based delivery during the execution phase.
• Escalation Path: Always verify your contact information in the configuration file. An outdated email address or phone number will break the escalation sequence.
• Testing: Use the status and is-overdue commands frequently during setup to ensure the state machine is behaving as expected before fully arming the switch.
• Human Oversight: This agent is a tool for automation; always ensure a trusted human is aware of the agent's existence and how to access your system if you are unable to provide the necessary input.