OpenClaw for Bluesky: A Daily Sighting Post

OpenClaw for Bluesky

Bird clubs and nature societies have found a home on Bluesky, where a photo of a kingfisher with a good description travels well. The routine is simple and always late: someone sees something at dawn, takes photos, and the post is written at night or not at all. OpenClaw answers in the chat apps members already use and can read a log file, so the post can start from a message in the field. This page follows a birdwatching club through that routine, including the alt text that makes photos accessible and the one rule that matters most in this hobby: do not publish where a rare bird nests.

Example: a birdwatching club posts its daily best sighting

Imagine a club member who photographs a kingfisher at the reservoir at 07:10 and messages OpenClaw two photo names and a line: kingfisher, reservoir east bank, 07:10. OpenClaw finds the files with list_media, writes a post of 240 characters with the species and the general place, and drafts alt text for each photo that describes the bird's pose and surroundings. It saves the draft with create_drafts for the club's Bluesky account. A morning cron job reads the sighting log and proposes tomorrow's draft the evening before. The club's volunteer approves the 08:00 request in the Tareno dashboard.

Step by step

1. 01

   Message the sighting with the photo names

   Send the species, the general place, the time and the file names in a channel configured in your OpenClaw Gateway. OpenClaw uses what you type, so spell the species the way the club writes it.

2. 02

   Let it find the photos

   The files are looked up with list_media, and a name that matches nothing is reported back. Tareno accepts at most four images on a Bluesky post.

3. 03

   Write alt text per photo

   Ask for a description of what each photo shows: the bird, its pose, the setting. Good alt text is the difference between a photo that reaches everyone and one that does not.

4. 04

   Protect sensitive places

   For rare or nesting species, ask OpenClaw to name only the region, not the site. A precise location for a nest can bring crowds that harm the birds.

5. 05

   Save and approve

   The connected account is checked with list_accounts, then create_drafts stores the text. Name a time and time zone; what follows is a pending request that only your approval in the dashboard turns into a post.

6. 06

   Add the evening proposal job

   A cron job can read the sighting log and message you tomorrow's draft. Limit its toolset to reading and drafting.

Prompts to copy

Use Tareno to find the photos [kingfisher-1.jpg, kingfisher-2.jpg] in my media library. Write a Bluesky post within 300 characters about a kingfisher seen at the reservoir at 07:10, naming only the region, and write one sentence of alt text per photo. Show me the text first; I confirm before it is stored.

Read the draft again and tell me whether it reveals a precise location, a nest or a date pattern that could help someone find a rare bird. If it does, rewrite it with only the general region and show me the change before anything is saved to Tareno.

Each evening at 20:00 look up tomorrow's row in the sighting log [file path], and message me a proposed post of at most 300 characters. Store it as a Tareno draft only, with no scheduling or publishing, and warn me when the row is missing or marked sensitive.

Request a Tareno slot for draft [draft ID] at [tomorrow 08:00] in the time zone [Europe/Berlin], so the sighting is online before the morning walkers set out. Send me the pending action ID and confirm that nothing is live before my approval in the dashboard.

Mistakes to avoid

• Publishing the exact site of a rare bird. Name the region only.
• Uploading full-size phone photos. Export them under the 2 MB limit.
• Skipping alt text. Photo-heavy posts are only accessible with it.
• Widening the evening job's toolset. Anything beyond reading and drafting removes your last check.