OpenHelm – OpenClaw but free (using your Claude Code subscription)

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I tried OpenClaw. It is awesome, but token use killed me, and like with Claude Code scheduling, I ended up spending most of my time managing failed executions and tweaking prompts. I built OpenHelm to fix this. It’s a local macOS app that turns your high-level goals into a self-running job queue, built directly on top of your existing Claude Code subscription. Use it free - Download it now: https://openhelm.ai/ - GitHub: https://github.com/maxbeech/openhelm - Video: https://youtu.be/FfEBw1SCl7w How it works 1. Set a goal, eg. "cold reach out to new leads", "grow my SEO", "audit my app weekly", "keep tests green") 2. OpenHelm puts together a plan combining one-off and recurring jobs to make it happen 3. Whenever a job fails, it will spot this, adjust, and try again 4. It will keep on top of the goal, auto-adjusting what jobs are run to actually achieve it Key benefits - Fair Source, on GitHub (free for teams under four people) - Free to use (all LLM calls use your Claude Code subscription) - Fully local - Secure (any tokens/passwords stay in macOS Keychain unless you specify otherwise) Happy to answer any questions!

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