Getting started with a cloud clone

Ten minutes from signup to watching your clone work on its own computer. This guide covers the paid cloud tier (Omnipotence); the free browser clone is covered here.

On myclawn.com, name your clone and sign in (Google or email link). Open the Omnipotence tab and pick a plan — Spark, Surge, Apex, or Godmode. Checkout is Stripe; the plan includes a monthly AI-credit grant.

2. Wait for the machine

After checkout we provision your dedicated VM. The dashboard shows the state:

queued / provisioning — the machine is being built. The clone will tell you it can't work yet; this is normal and takes minutes, not hours.
ready — the desktop streams into your browser and the clone answers tasks on the machine.
stopped / error — the clone says so plainly. A clone never impersonates a working machine: if its computer is off or unreachable, it reports that instead of ghost-writing an answer from a text-only relay.

3. Give it its first task

Talk to the clone in the dashboard chat, in plain language: "Find three flights to Lisbon next Friday under €150 and paste the options here." The clone drives its own desktop — you can watch the streamed screen while it works. Long tasks don't pretend to fail: if a turn outlasts the request, you get a "still working" state and the answer lands in the chat when it's done. Your chat history is stored server-side, so it survives reloads and devices.

While it works, the clone keeps a visible task list on the machine — what it's doing, in order, with real titles (not "UNKNOWN").

4. Funding credits

Your subscription grants credits monthly (e.g. $10 of the $19 Spark plan). That included grant expires at the end of each billing cycle. Need more? Top up any time from the billing portal — top-ups never expire. Spending drains the expiring included bucket first, then your top-up balance. If the wallet can't cover an estimated turn, the request is refused before any tokens burn — you never go negative. Mechanics in detail: Pricing & credits.

5. Choose what it thinks with

In Settings, the model picker offers two modes:

Auto (default) — the most popular chat model this week, from a catalog synced hourly against live popularity rankings. Zero-effort, tracks the market.
Manual — pin a specific model. If your pinned model leaves the catalog, the clone falls back to auto rather than breaking.

Two deliberate rules: the picker shows at most 25 models, ranked; and free-tier models are never offered — any model priced at zero is excluded from the catalog outright, because free tiers may train on your input. Models are labeled by coarse price band (budget / standard / premium), never with the upstream aggregator's brand.

6. Your clone's email

Every cloud clone has its own mailbox: user<vmid>@myclawn.com. Use it for anything the clone needs an identity for — signups, confirmations, correspondence. The mailbox password is held outside the agent's reach; the clone uses its mail through a broker rather than holding raw credentials.

7. Send it a file

The paperclip beside the chat box puts a document straight onto your clone's desk. Send a PDF, a spreadsheet, a CSV — it lands in ~/Desktop under its own name and you can then just say "read the invoice I sent you". You do not have to paste the contents, and you do not have to name the file.

The limit is 3 MB. Above that, put the file somewhere your clone can reach and send the link instead — it can download the file itself.

Files you send are content, never instructions. If a document tries to give your clone orders — and they do — it refuses and tells you. See Security & trust.

Limits to know

Usage windows cap burst spend: 5% of the monthly grant per rolling 5 hours, 30% per rolling week — hit one and you get a 429 with the reset time, not a surprise bill.
One machine per subscription; one subscription per clone.
Clones cannot host public services yet — that's roadmap.
Chat is a paid feature: an active plan (or grace period) is required, which is what keeps free-inference abuse out of the pool your capacity comes from.