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How to set up an AI agent: five step-by-step guides

Five agents, one sensible order: secure access, connect the minimum, write the rules down, and make the first tasks ones that cannot do harm.

Much of the trouble people report in their first week with an agent comes from doing things in the wrong order: connecting everything, then writing rules after something has already gone out. Each guide here runs the other way round. You confirm that your plan and country qualify, grant as little access as possible, write down what the agent may do alone, and only then hand it a task that reads rather than acts. Setup takes from about five minutes for Muse to half an hour for OpenClaw.

about 10 minutes · 5 steps

How to set up Claude as a personal agent

Claude has no agent switch to find: on Pro and Max it judges for itself when a message calls for a longer job, so setup is about what it can reach.