113 Workflows That Run Your Digital Life

The promise of personal automation has always been bigger than the reality. Zapier connects apps. IFTTT triggers recipes. Shell scripts tie your terminal together. But none of them touch the full surface area of your digital life — the morning routine, the focus window, the end-of-day shutdown, the photo backups, the dependency audits, the packing list for next week's trip.

ClawFlows, the open source workflow collection from nikilster/clawflows, takes a different approach. It ships 113 automation workflows built for OpenClaw that each orchestrate a full routine end-to-end. Not triggers. Not glue code. Routines.

This post is the overview — what's in the collection, how it's organized, and why running your life through structured workflows might be the highest-leverage productivity move of 2026.

Key Takeaways

• ClawFlows includes 113 prebuilt workflows spanning focus, work, dev tools, home life, travel, health, finance, and security categories.
• Each workflow is a named routine like activate-focus-mode or build-standup that runs multi-step automation using underlying skills.
• The entire collection is open source under the MIT license via nikilster/clawflows on GitHub.
• Workflows orchestrate skills, meaning a single command can trigger dozens of smaller operations in the right order.
• You can install all 113 in one command or pick individual workflows — and writing your own is straightforward.

What Is a Workflow, Really?

A workflow in the ClawFlows sense is a top-level verb for your day. You don't think "open calendar, then Slack, then notes, then mute notifications." You think "start the workday." A workflow collapses that intent into a single invocation.

This matters because the cognitive overhead of multi-step routines is the hidden tax on knowledge work. Every time you context-switch into a setup ritual, you lose minutes and the momentum of whatever you were about to do. Workflows pay that tax once, at authoring time, so you never pay it again.

How Is It Different From a Shell Script?

Shell scripts are imperative and brittle. They assume a specific environment, specific binaries, specific paths. Workflows are declarative routines that compose skills — reusable, context-aware units that know how to do one thing well. We cover this distinction in depth in Workflows vs Cron Jobs vs Shell Scripts.

The Nine Categories

ClawFlows organizes its 113 workflows into practical buckets. Here's what each one covers.

Focus & Deep Work

The headline category. Workflows like activate-focus-mode, activate-sleep-mode, and end-workday handle the transitions that most people fumble. They silence notifications, close distracting apps, load the right context, and hand you back a clean workspace. We profile the flagship workflow in Focus Mode: The Workflow That Saved My Week.

Work & Meetings

build-standup, morning-briefing, prep-for-meeting, and check-email cover the meta-work of knowledge jobs — the stuff that surrounds the actual work. Build-standup in particular is a small miracle of time savings, covered in Automating Standups With Build-Standup.

Dev Tools

Twelve workflows for engineers alone, including check-dependencies, docker-cleanup, build-changelog, and run-tests-before-commit. See 12 Dev Tool Workflows Every Engineer Needs for the roundup.

Files & Backup

backup-photos, organize-downloads, archive-old-projects. These are the workflows you never run often enough until you lose something.

Security & Privacy

security-audit, rotate-passwords, check-breaches, digital-hygiene. Covered in Security Audit Workflows for Solo Devs.

Finance

audit-subscriptions, monthly-spending-review, tax-prep. Small automation, big savings.

Travel

build-packing-list, pre-trip-automation, travel-handoff. Pre-trip anxiety, automated away.

Health

medication-reminder, workout-log, sleep-tracking. The quiet wins.

Home & Life

Odds and ends that don't fit elsewhere but matter daily.

Why Open Source Matters Here

Proprietary automation platforms rent your routines back to you every month. Zapier bills per task. Make charges by operation. The more useful automation becomes, the more you pay. ClawFlows inverts this: 113 workflows, MIT license, zero recurring fees.

You also get to read the source. Every workflow is a transparent definition you can fork, modify, or use as a template for your own routines. That's a fundamentally different relationship than hoping your SaaS vendor doesn't raise prices next quarter. We dig into this in Why ClawFlows Beats Zapier for Developers.

The Installation Story

One command pulls the full collection into your OpenClaw environment. We walk through it step-by-step in How to Install ClawFlows in One Command, including the handful of prerequisites and the first five workflows worth running on day one.

The full list is browsable at aiskill.market/workflows, where each workflow has its own page with description, source code, and install button.

FAQ

How many workflows ship with ClawFlows?

113, organized into nine categories covering focus, work, dev tools, files and backup, security, finance, travel, health, and home and life.

Is ClawFlows free?

Yes. It's open source under the MIT license via nikilster/clawflows. You can install the full collection, fork individual workflows, or use them as templates for your own.

What's the difference between a workflow and a skill?

A skill is a reusable unit of capability — how to send an email, how to check a Git repo. A workflow is a routine that orchestrates multiple skills in sequence to accomplish a complete task. We explain the architecture in How Workflows Orchestrate Multiple Skills.

Do I need OpenClaw to run ClawFlows?

ClawFlows is designed for OpenClaw, which provides the skill runtime workflows depend on. Most workflows assume OpenClaw is installed and configured. See the OpenClaw docs for setup.

Can I write my own workflows?

Absolutely. Workflows are structured definitions, not black boxes. We walk through authoring your first one in Writing Your First Custom ClawFlow.

Start Running Your Life on Rails

The 113 workflows in ClawFlows represent something unusual: a serious, opinionated, open source attempt to automate the surface area of a working life. Not the sexy parts. The boring parts. Which is exactly where the time savings hide.

Browse the full collection, read the source, and pick three to start with. If you only install one, make it activate-focus-mode. If you install three, add morning-briefing and build-standup. If you go all in, you'll find your digital life starts running itself.

Explore all 113 workflows at aiskill.market/workflows or submit your own.

Sources

• nikilster/clawflows on GitHub — primary source for all 113 workflows
• OpenClaw platform documentation
• Anthropic Claude documentation
• AI Skill Market Workflows channel
• MCP Protocol Guide