FB agent-defibrillator
Watchdog that monitors your AI agent gateway and restarts it when it crashes. Triggers on "install defibrillator", "agent watchdog", "gateway monitor", "auto-restart agent", or "keep agent alive". macOS launchd service with optional Discord notifications.
As a process B 72/100 · Nearly there — weak spots: result and completion, progress reporting
What is at stake
The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.
The skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
How to improve
- Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 8
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencedefibrillator.sh:160Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)launchctl bootstrap "gui/$(id -u)" "$GATEWAY_PLIST" 2>> "$LOG_FILE"
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceinstall.sh:109Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)launchctl bootstrap "gui/$(id -u)" "$PLIST_DIR/$PLIST_NAME"
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceREADME.md:139Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openclaw.defibrillator.plist
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceREADME.md:160Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)ls ~/Library/LaunchAgents/*gateway* ~/Library/LaunchAgents/*openclaw*
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceSKILL.md:65Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)rm ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.openclaw.defibrillator.plist
Medium and low: 3
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencedefibrillator.sh:17Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (string literal in code, not executed)GATEWAY_PLIST="$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.openclaw.gateway.plist"
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-pipe-to-shell-known-hostREADME.md:50Pipe-to-shell installer from a well-known host (still executes remote code)curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hazy2go/agent-defibrillator/main/install.sh | bash
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceREADME.md:145Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)Because your agent has a heart. And sometimes hearts stop. And when they do, you need 200 joules of `launchctl bootstrap` straight to the chest.
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Files scanned: 5. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 72/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 50Failures and branches. 0 branches, has a failure section
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 7 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 389 tokens
- 100Running it twice. No mutating operations
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 5 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 255: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 7 items
- +4Has examples (4 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 89.