OpenClaw for Calendar Management: Never Miss a Meeting

OpenClaw calendar automation transforms how you manage your schedule. Instead of manually checking Google Calendar and juggling meeting requests, your OpenClaw agent monitors your calendar, detects conflicts, prepares meeting briefs, and can even propose meeting times when people ask for availability. Here's how to build a reliable calendar assistant.

Install and Connect the Calendar Skill

python -m openclaw skill install google-calendar

The skill guides you through Google OAuth authorization. After connecting, your agent has read and write access to your calendar (configurable to read-only if preferred).

Core Capabilities

Schedule queries: "What's on my calendar today?" or "Do I have any conflicts next week?"

Meeting booking: "Schedule a 30-minute call with Sarah next Tuesday afternoon" — the agent checks availability and creates the event.

Conflict detection: When a new meeting is proposed, the agent automatically checks for existing commitments.

Meeting preparation: Before any meeting, your agent can research attendees (via web search), pull relevant documents from your Notion or Google Drive, and create a preparation brief.

Smart reminders: Daily and weekly schedule summaries sent automatically to your Telegram.

Setting Up Meeting Prep Automation

Configure automated meeting preparation 30 minutes before each calendar event:

{
  "scheduler": {
    "tasks": [{
      "name": "meeting_prep",
      "type": "before_calendar_event",
      "minutes_before": 30,
      "action": "run",
      "prompt": "I have {event_name} with {attendees} in 30 minutes. Please research {attendees} and prepare a brief with: their background, any open items between us, and 3 talking points.",
      "output_channel": "telegram"
    }]
  }
}

Natural Language Scheduling

One of the most appreciated features is natural language understanding for scheduling:

• "Block Friday afternoon for deep work"
• "Schedule the Q2 review for the first available Tuesday in June"
• "Cancel my 3 PM and suggest three alternatives to John"

Availability Management

Configure your available meeting windows in your system prompt:

My meeting preferences:
- Available for meetings: Monday-Thursday, 10 AM - 4 PM
- Deep work blocks: Friday (never schedule meetings)
- Lunch: 12:30 - 1:30 PM (prefer to keep free)
- Buffer: 15 minutes between meetings when possible

Your agent applies these preferences when booking meetings.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can OpenClaw book meetings on behalf of someone else?

Your agent can draft a reply with available times or use a scheduling tool like Calendly's API. Directly booking on someone else's calendar requires their calendar integration.

What if my agent books a meeting at the wrong time?

Events created by the agent appear on your Google Calendar immediately. Review newly created events and cancel any mistakes. Keeping require_confirmation: true for calendar write operations prevents mistakes from going to calendar without your review.

Does this work with Apple Calendar or Outlook?

The standard skill supports Google Calendar. Community skills for Apple Calendar (via CalDAV) and Microsoft Outlook are available on ClawHub.