Advanced Handbook: Assistants, Connectors, Skills, and Security
💡 Goal: complete the four advanced tasks of WorkBuddy in about 70 minutes—bind one remote assistant channel, connect one type of external data, install one skill, and review your permission and security settings once.
You can already use WorkBuddy in your daily routine and have run through at least one scenario path. The advanced stage of WorkBuddy solves just one problem: making it work for you regardless of time, place, or data source. This page is the roadmap; hands-on details are in each course. Before starting, make sure you have read Daily Use: Turning WorkBuddy Into Your Office Buddy.
🎯 Stage Goals
After reading this section, you should be able to do three things:
- Remote command: even when you are away from your computer, you can assign work and receive results through one of six channels such as WeChat.
- Connect data and add capabilities: let the assistant directly read and write your external data such as email and Tencent Docs, and install ready-made skills from the Skill Market or create your own with a single sentence.
- Guard the boundaries: tell apart the two permission modes, understand the data security mechanism, and confidently enable unattended tasks.
⏳ Estimated Time
- This page overview: about 5 minutes.
- The 5 sub-courses combined: about 66 minutes (15 + 15 + 12 + 12 + 12); with a ±30% buffer, reserve about 46–86 minutes.
- Every course has hands-on steps. We recommend operating on your own account as you read; actual time will be longer.
🚀 Before You Start
- You have finished reading Daily Use: Turning WorkBuddy Into Your Office Buddy and know how to use credits, modes, and the knowledge base.
- The WorkBuddy desktop app is installed and logged in on your computer: when the assistant does local work for you, the computer must stay on and online. Binding the WeChat assistant requires WorkBuddy ≥ 4.6.4 and WeChat ≥ 8.0.70.
- You have checked your credit balance: all conversations consume credits; basic credits are issued monthly, valid for the current month only and do not roll over—estimate your usage before running automation.
- A cup of water ☕
💡 No need to learn it all at once
The five courses are independent of each other, but reading them in the order 1→2→3→4 takes the least effort: first bind an assistant to build a feel for "working even when you are away from the computer"; then connect connectors to open up data; then use skills to amplify capabilities; finally, go back and review the security settings together. Read the international-version course on demand.
📚 Courses in This Stage
| Course | Content | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Assistant Overview: Six Remote Channels and Security Boundaries | How to choose and bind the WeChat assistant (officially recommended, bind by scanning a QR code), WeChat customer service account, WeCom assistant, QQ bot, Feishu, and DingTalk bot; unified entry and "allow running while locked" | 15 minutes |
| Connectors and MCP: Integrating Email, Documents, Meetings, and Custom Services | Six connectors—QQ Mail, Tencent Docs, Tencent Lexiang, Tencent Meeting, TAPD, Tencent Cloud Drive—plus custom MCP; a connector's own reads and writes do not consume credits; how to reconnect when authorization expires | 15 minutes |
| Skill Market: Installing, Managing, and OpenClaw Skill Compatibility | Three sections: Recommended / SkillHub / Suites; five installation methods; built-in 20+ skill packs, compatible with OpenClaw community skills; enabled state syncs across devices, disabling ≠ uninstalling | 12 minutes |
| Data Security and Privacy: Can You Trust It with Company Files | How to choose between the two permission modes; files are processed locally by default, with access only to authorized directories; three sources for scheduled tasks—local / project / cloud—and unattended task recommendations | 12 minutes |
| International Version workbuddy.ai: Differences from the Domestic Version and How to Connect | Differences between workbuddy.ai and the domestic version in channels (Slack / Telegram / Discord) and more, plus how to connect; read on demand when overseas collaboration is needed | 12 minutes |
🎒 What You Will Gain
- An assistant setup that can take work remotely: with channels bound, tasks can run even while the screen is locked.
- How to use connectors so the assistant can directly read and write external data such as email and Tencent Docs.
- The path to installing skills from the market and creating skills with a single sentence, plus the cross-device sync rules for managing them.
- A basis for judging "can you trust it with company files": two permission modes + local data processing mechanism.
Further reading: Efficient Workflows: From Knowing How to Using Well, Scenario Practice: Choose Your Path.
WorkBuddy Advanced learning doesn't have to be done in one go: bind an assistant channel today, connect a connector tomorrow, and the capabilities will grow piece by piece.
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