# TutorClaw Help Guide

Welcome to TutorClaw Alpha! Your learning assistant system is successfully installed and running locally.

## You Are in the Right Place

Getting a private assistant set up on your own computer is a great first milestone. By installing TutorClaw, you have successfully set up a secure learning loop where your assistant is isolated from outside interference. You are in complete control of your workspace, directories, and data safety.

## What You Have Now

Your installation provides more than just a simple chat window. You now have a complete, local-first teaching workspace. This means all of your chat history, lesson settings, local search indices, and configurations reside privately on your local system. There is no external database or public sync active, ensuring that whatever you learn or configure stays entirely private to your computer.

## What TutorClaw Can Help You Do

TutorClaw is designed to help you build confidence through guided lessons and supported skills. Instead of trying to guess complex commands, you can ask plain-English questions in your chat window. The system will guide you step-by-step through learning how to use file reading tools, setting up a secure phone chat bot connection (Telegram bot chat), and configuring read-only calendar awareness to let the assistant safely view your schedule.

## Two Ways to Learn with TutorClaw

TutorClaw combines theory and practice to help you master new skills:

- The Help Guide is your textbook: Use this orientation and lesson reading layer to understand how the system works, review safety boundaries, and prepare for exercises.
- The Chat is your lab: Use the chat window as your interactive work area where TutorClaw helps you practice, ask questions, and complete tasks. If you want interactive help, simply open the chat and ask TutorClaw about any page or topic in this guide.

## How To Start Using TutorClaw

To begin learning right away:

- Go back to your active chat screen.
- Type: `I am new, help me start`
- Your local assistant will detect your status and launch your first onboarding lesson.

## Guided Onboarding Lessons

### 1. Beginner Setup

Read about your system's folder organization, first-run testing checklists, and how files are structured on your machine.

### 2. What To Do After Setup

Next steps for interacting with your assistant, managing your personal profile, and launching your first local files safely.

### 3. Control Panel Guide

Learn how to read Overview metrics, Gateway Access URLs, websocket ports, instances, and your active agent sessions.

## Supported Skills & Integrations

### Connect TutorClaw to Your Phone

Learn how to connect Telegram BotFather to your assistant for mobile lessons. Keep your bot token private. Access should be limited to your allowed Telegram user ID. Do not share your private bot publicly.

### Telegram Phone Chat Safety

Review safety guidelines for Telegram integration, token storage, whitelisted user IDs, and chat isolation rules.

### Connect TutorClaw to Your Calendar

Set up the Calendar Awareness skill. TutorClaw can read calendar events only. It cannot create, edit, delete, move, invite, or cancel calendar events.

### Read-Only Calendar Safety

Deep-dive on Google Calendar API scopes, token file security, and why read-only safety protects your events.

### Supported Skills Catalog

View the list of offline-ready skills (such as PDF reading, memory summaries) and how to configure them.

### General Safety Tips

Sandbox instructions to avoid exposing private information, password rules, bank safety, and command approvals.

## Common First Questions to Ask TutorClaw

- “What do I do after setup?”
- “What is my assistant's name?”
- “What supported skills can I learn?”
- “How do I connect my phone securely?”
- “Show me my calendar safety limits.”
- “Explain this dashboard in simple language.”

## Important Safety Sandbox Rule

TutorClaw is configured for local safety. Never paste passwords, credit cards, banking details, recovery codes, or sensitive identity documents into the assistant chat. Keep all integrations restricted to private channels.

## Where To Get Help Inside TutorClaw

Your help system is fully offline and reads directly from the following files in your workspace knowledge base:

- `knowledge_base/help_index.json`
- `knowledge_base/getting_started.md`
- `knowledge_base/tutorclaw_safety_tips.md`
- `knowledge_base/beginner_setup.md`
- `knowledge_base/what_to_do_after_setup.md`
- `knowledge_base/connect_tutorclaw_phone.md`
- `knowledge_base/connect_tutorclaw_calendar.md`
- `knowledge_base/calendar_read_only_safety.md`
- `knowledge_base/telegram_phone_chat_safety.md`

### TutorClaw HelpBot

I can help you understand this page. For this alpha version, use the links below or ask TutorClaw in Chat for step-by-step help.

Safety Boundaries

Calendar: read-only. TutorClaw can read events only and cannot create, edit, delete, move, invite, or cancel events.

Telegram: keep bot token private; access should be limited to allowed Telegram user ID; do not share the private bot publicly.

Textbook Chapters

- 1. Beginner Setup
- 2. What To Do After Setup
- 3. Control Panel Guide
- Connect to Phone
- Telegram Safety
- Connect to Calendar
- Calendar Safety
- Supported Skills
- General Safety Tips

Suggested Chat Prompts
“Explain this page in simple steps.” “What should I do next?” “Help me practice this in chat.” “Show me one step at a time.”