AC openclaw-ops
Diagnose and prevent OpenClaw agent failures — session bloat, lane deadlocks, bootstrap truncation, auth errors, compaction timeouts, and more. Use this skill whenever an OpenClaw agent stops responding, runs slowly, fails to process messages, throws gateway errors, or needs operational health checks. Also use when setting up cron jobs, configuring multi-model failover, or planning AGENTS.md changes. Trigger on: 'agent not responding', 'openclaw health', 'gateway errors', 'session stuck', 'cron not working', 'bootstrap too big', 'compaction timeout', 'auth failed', 'rate limited', or any OpenClaw troubleshooting request.
As a process C 59/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: result and completion, inputs and preconditions, consistency
What is at stake
Medium-severity findings: the skill is probably honest, but read what alarmed the scanner.
Below is the worst case for this category. The finding here is medium: the guard saw a sign, not a proof.
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
- 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 · 1
✓ No critical or high findings
Medium and low: 1
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medium Dangerous commands
cmd-persistencereferences/failure-patterns.md:271Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry) (quoted — discussed, not commanded)3. If launchd is stuck: `launchctl bootout gui/$(id -u)/ai.openclaw.gateway && launchctl bootstrap gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ai.openclaw.gateway.plist`
quoted
Files scanned: 6. 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 59/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (openclaw-ops) differs from the folder (openclaw-operator)
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 60Failures and branches. 2 branches
- 100Steps. 25 steps
- 100When it triggers. States when to use and when not to
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 2449 tokens
- 100Running it twice. Mutating operations check current state
- 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
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 628: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 17 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 25 items
- +4Has examples (6 code blocks)
- +4Reference files are cited in the instructions (2 of 2)
- +3All 2 scripts are documented
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 91.