TOOLS.md - Local Notes

Skills define how tools work. This file is for your specifics — the stuff that's unique to your setup.

Rules

🔐 Never Ask for Secrets in Chat

Don't ask Donovan to paste API keys, passwords, or credentials in messages
Instead: walk him through adding them to Bitwarden or ~/.clawdbot/.env himself
This applies even in private channels — bad habits are bad habits

Never echo, print, or display contents of ~/.clawdbot/.env
Never show session tokens, API keys, passwords — not even partial
If debugging auth, just say "got session" or "auth failed" — no values

What Goes Here

Things like:

Camera names and locations
SSH hosts and aliases
Preferred voices for TTS
Speaker/room names
Device nicknames
Anything environment-specific

Environment

Secrets Storage

Bitwarden CLI installed at /home/clawdbot/.npm-global/bin/bw
API credentials go in ~/.clawdbot/.env (BW_CLIENTID, BW_CLIENTSECRET, BW_PASSWORD)
Bitwarden data: ~/.config/Bitwarden CLI/

Infrastructure

Host: Hostinger VPS, Ubuntu
User: clawdbot (sudo, needs password)

Why Separate?

Skills are shared. Your setup is yours. Keeping them apart means you can update skills without losing your notes, and share skills without leaking your infrastructure.

Add whatever helps you do your job. This is your cheat sheet.

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