Personal Profile

Personal profile turns Clew into a personal AI control center — plan, delegate, learn, and automate across sessions.

Overview

Personal profile is designed for non-coding work: planning, research, personal automation, and overseeing delegated coding tasks. It uses memory across sessions, delegates coding to worker agents, and creates skills from experience.

Switch with: /profile personal (or /profile coding to switch back).

Key Capabilities

Delegation

In personal profile, coding work is delegated — not done directly. Use the built-in /delegate skill (aliases: /code, /worker) to spawn a Codex worker via process_peer with a structured task description.

The delegate handles the implementation; you review the results and report back to the user.

Memory-Driven Learning

Personal profile reads and writes memory proactively:

• On every session start, recalls user preferences and context from memory
• Writes to memory when learning preferences, corrections, or recurring patterns
• Connects dots across sessions — the user never repeats themselves

Skill Creation

When a multi-step process repeats, personal profile can create a reusable skill:

• Use /skillify to capture the current session's process as a skill
• Skills are saved to .clew/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (repo) or ~/.claude/skills/<name>/SKILL.md (personal)
• Invoke with /<skill-name> anytime

Scheduling & Autonomy

Background capabilities available in personal profile:

• /cron — schedule recurring tasks (daily reports, reminders, audits)
• /loop — repeated polling or watch tasks
• /task — manage the persistent task queue
• /daemon — 24/7 autonomous agent loop

Typical Workflow

1. User asks for something (code, research, planning, automation)
2. Personal profile classifies the request — coding or non-coding?
3. Non-coding — handle directly (plan, research, answer, configure)
4. Coding — use process_peer to delegate to a Codex worker with a clear task brief
5. Review results — summarize what the worker did, what passed, what failed
6. Learn — if the process was repeatable, create a skill
7. Remember — save any preferences or decisions to memory

The /delegate Skill

The built-in /delegate skill wraps the delegation workflow:

• Understand the requirement and plan the approach
• Create a structured task with goal, scope, files, constraints
• Spawn a Codex worker via process_peer with appropriate timeout
• Report results back: changes, pass/fail, blockers, next steps

Invoke with: /delegate Implement a login form or use aliases /code or /worker.

Coding vs Personal Profile

Aspect	Coding	Personal
Primary role	Code implementation	Control center & assistant
Coding work	Direct file editing	Delegate to worker
Memory usage	Project context	User preferences + cross-session
Skill creation	Manual	Proactive + automatic
Permission mode	As configured	Defaults to ask
Autonomy	Turn-based	Proactive, scheduled, daemon

Configuration

Set the default profile in settings:

clew config set profile personal

Or pass at startup:

clew --profile personal