I turned Claude Code into a personal assistant

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OpenPaw is an open-source toolkit that extends Claude Code into a personal assistant with 38 integrated skills including email, calendar, Spotify, smart home control, and note-taking. Users can activate it with a single command (npx pawmode) and manage tasks locally without requiring background services or cloud infrastructure. It works with existing Claude subscriptions at no additional cost and is available as open-source software on GitHub.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Personal Assistant Wizard for Claude Code — npx pawmode - daxaur/openpaw

Claude Code is powerful, but out of the box it only knows how to code. OpenPaw turns it into a full personal assistant — one that reads your email, plays your music, controls your lights, manages your calendar, tracks your packages, and remembers what you told it last week. "Check my email and summarize anything urgent" "Play lo-fi beats on Spotify" "Turn the bedroom lights to 20%" "What's on my calendar tomorrow?" "Add milk to my reminders" "Go to Hacker News and summarize the top 5 posts" Claude figures out which skill to use. No special syntax needed. No daemon, no cloud, no subscriptions. OpenPaw runs once, writes config, and gets out of the way. Everything runs locally through your…from github.com

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