AD openclaw-setup-guide
Battle-tested setup guide for a multi-agent AI system on Apple Silicon (Mac Mini M4). Covers: install order (Claude Code first), RAM reality for local orchestrators, shared memory (Obsidian + MemPalace), inter-agent communication, critical pitfalls (doctor destroys config, lobotomy protection, sandbox kills symlinks), and WhatsApp console loop. Load when setting up a new system or onboarding a new agent.
As a process D 47/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
How to improve
- 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 · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 5. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
frontmatter-keyunknown frontmatter key "compatible-with"
Process rating: all ten parameters 47/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 6 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (openclaw-setup-guide) differs from the folder (nerua1-setup-guide)
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash, web, git, python) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Failures and branches. 2 branches
- 100Steps. 16 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2657 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
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
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 407: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 32 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 16 items
- +4Has examples (15 code blocks)
- +1License stated
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 84.