Echo -- Retired AI Server
Echo was Elmar's primary AI server before Luci. It ran on AWS EC2 as an OpenClaw agent. Most of its workloads have been migrated to Luci, and the instance was stopped on 2026-04-05.
Identity
- Role: Primary AI assistant (retired)
- Platform: OpenClaw (not Claude Code)
- Ran on: AWS EC2 (Ubuntu 24.04, 4 vCPU, 4GB RAM)
- SSH:
ubuntu@100.87.215.10 (Tailscale) or ubuntu@13.221.128.27 (public)
- Status: Stopped (not terminated) as of 2026-04-05; storage retained
What Echo Was
Echo was described as a "digital chief of staff" -- a highly autonomous OpenClaw agent that managed:
- Email, calendar, WhatsApp monitoring
- 46 cron jobs (44 enabled) covering everything from heartbeats to property alerts
- 108 installed skills
- Projects: crypto-trader, btc-swing-trader, f1-predictor, price-watch, LegalMind-Explorer, and more
- A three-tier memory system: daily logs, curated index, and ~50 topic files
- Dashboard at port 3001, Price Watch at port 5050
OpenClaw Configuration
- Version: 2026.3.13 (pinned -- newer versions broke WhatsApp)
- Default model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
- ACP enabled with multiple agent backends: pi, claude, codex, opencode, gemini, kimi
- Integrations: Linear, Asana, Telegram, Notion, Hetzner, Browserbase, Tavily, Firecrawl, WebScrapingAPI
Migration to Luci
Services were migrated from Echo to Luci between 2026-04-03 and 2026-04-05:
| Service |
Migration Date |
Notes |
| WhatsApp Monitor |
2026-04-03 |
Baileys WebSocket, auth transplanted from Echo |
| BTC Swing Trader |
2026-04-04 |
Daily chart analysis via Opus+Sonnet |
| Crypto Trader |
2026-04-04 |
Hourly BTC trading cycle (dry run) |
| Padel Tournament |
pre-2026-04-05 |
Calendar checker + daily match updates |
| Price Watch |
pre-2026-04-05 |
Property/car search dashboard |
The migration moved the system from OpenClaw (Echo) to Claude Code (Luci) -- a different agent platform entirely.
Lessons Learned from Echo
Echo's operational history informed several rules that now govern Luci:
- No duplicate tasks -- Echo's worst problem was creating duplicate cron jobs until the list became unmanageable. Luci's scheduler enforces unique IDs and the manifest tracks everything.
- No system cron sprawl -- Echo had 46 cron jobs. Luci restricts crontab to exactly two entries (scheduler tick + heartbeat); all other scheduled work uses task files.
- Manifest tracking -- Echo had no single source of truth for what was running. Luci's
luci-manifest.md was created specifically to avoid this.
Current Status
- Instance: Stopped on AWS (not terminated)
- Storage: Retained -- can be restarted if needed
- Tailscale node: Kept until full termination
- GitHub repos: Still exist (conrelma/openclaw-infra, conrelma/echo-dashboard, etc.)
- "Echo Forum" -- a Telegram group thread originally created by Echo, still referenced in notification configs (thread IDs for crypto, price watch, etc.)
Key Files
~/.claude/vault/infrastructure/echo.md -- server profile with full specs and health flags/home/lucienne/workspace/luci-manifest.md -- references Echo migration dates
Key Takeaways
- Echo was the predecessor to Luci, running on AWS EC2 with OpenClaw
- All critical workloads migrated to Luci by 2026-04-05; the instance is stopped but not terminated
- Echo's operational problems (cron sprawl, duplicate tasks, no manifest) directly shaped Luci's architecture
- The "Echo Forum" Telegram thread is still used for notifications even though Echo itself is retired
- Echo ran 46 cron jobs and 108 skills -- Luci deliberately avoids this sprawl through the scheduler task system