BC openclaw-backup-r2
Set up and run complete, encrypted, off-site backups of an OpenClaw install to Cloudflare R2 via restic, plus portable restore. Use when the user wants to back up, protect, restore, or migrate their OpenClaw config, agents, and credentials.
As a process C 58/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, consistency, running it twice
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 · 3
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceREADME.md:122Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)Register-ScheduledTask -TaskName "OpenClaw Backup" -Action $action -Trigger $trigger -Settings $settings -Description "Daily OpenClaw backup to R2"
Medium and low: 2
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceSKILL.md:57Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)Register a Task Scheduler job that runs `backup.ps1` daily with `-StartWhenAvailable` so it catches up if the PC was off. See the README for the exact `Register-ScheduledTask` command.
quoted -
low Dangerous commands
cmd-execpolicy-bypassREADME.md:119Runs PowerShell with execution policy bypassed (detector / deny-list definition)$action = New-ScheduledTaskAction -Execute "powershell.exe" -Argument '-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -File "C:\path\to\backup.ps1"'
detector
Files scanned: 7. 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 58/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Progress reporting. Says nothing while it works
- 30Running it twice. 9 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (openclaw-backup-r2) differs from the folder (backup-to-r2)
- 55Failures and branches. 1 branches
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 70When it triggers. States when to use, but not when not to
- 70Inputs and preconditions. Inputs and preconditions are listed
- 100Steps. 13 steps
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 968 tokens
- medium Safety rules and hard prohibitions inside a skill: they belong in the system prompt, here they protect nothing
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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 240: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 9 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 13 items
- +4Has examples (3 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 84.