Capstone: Your Sovereign AI Assistant with OpenClaw

Course Overview

In this self-directed capstone, you deploy OpenClaw — a self-hosted, open-source personal AI assistant that went from zero to one of the most-starred repositories on GitHub in days, precisely because it puts control back in the operator’s hands instead of a corporate cloud you can’t inspect — on STACKIT Compute Engine, connect it to STACKIT AI Model Serving, and extend it with custom agents and integrations. There are no templates and no step-by-step walkthroughs here: you’ve completed the rest of the AI Engineer learning path, and this is where you prove you can combine those skills independently.

The result is a production-hardened, fully sovereign AI assistant where every prompt, response, and byte of memory stays within European data centers — something you can actually use day to day, and something you can defend in front of a compliance officer. Mastery is judged across four dimensions rather than a checklist: sovereignty rigor (can you trace every data flow and enforce boundaries at the infrastructure level, not just document them), a working deployment connected to real messaging integrations, sound architectural thinking captured in an Architecture Decision Record, and creative problem-solving in how far you push the custom agents and integrations beyond the minimum.

What You’ll Learn

• Deploy and operate OpenClaw as a self-hosted, sovereign personal AI assistant on STACKIT Compute Engine
• Wire STACKIT AI Model Serving in as the LLM backend so no prompt, response, or memory leaves Europe
• Trace and enforce data-sovereignty boundaries at the infrastructure level using Security Groups and secrets management
• Extend OpenClaw with custom agents, including a compliance-monitoring agent
• Harden a production deployment for observability, resilience, and GDPR-readiness, and justify the design in an ADR

Modules

• The Architecture of a Personal AI OS
• OpenClaw Meets STACKIT AI Model Serving
• Deploy on STACKIT Compute Engine
• Custom Skills and Sovereign Integrations
• Production Hardening and the Final Challenge

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