What You Need to Know
Android Nodes expose structured actions your assistant can invoke through natural language. camera.list shows available cameras, device.permissions reports current permission status, and device.health provides battery, storage, and connectivity information. These work through the OpenClaw Android companion app, which bridges the gateway to your phone's APIs.
Notification management is a standout capability. notifications.actions supports open, dismiss, and reply operations — your assistant can triage your notification shade, dismiss low-priority alerts, and reply to messages on your behalf. Combined with DM policies and skill constraints, this creates a powerful notification filtering pipeline where the assistant handles noise and only escalates what matters.
system.notify lets the assistant push notifications to your phone from any channel or automation. A heartbeat check that detects a server issue can create a high-priority Android notification even if you are not actively using any chat channel. This makes the assistant feel truly ambient — it reaches you through the most appropriate surface.
Contacts and calendar integration rounds out the feature set. The assistant can look up contacts, create calendar events, and read upcoming schedules. For personal assistant workflows, this means natural requests like "schedule a call with Sarah tomorrow at 3pm" or "what's on my calendar this week" work without any third-party calendar API setup.
Motion sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope) open the door for context-aware automation — detecting whether you are walking, driving, or stationary. While niche, this enables scenarios like automatically switching notification verbosity based on activity or triggering location-aware reminders.