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Gateway Guard

Skill by austindixson

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/austindixson/gateway-guard

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name: gateway-guard displayName: Gateway Guard description: Ensures OpenClaw gateway auth consistency and can auto-prompt "continue" when a run error (Unhandled stop reason: error) appears in gateway logs. Use when checking or fixing gateway token/password mismatch, device_token_mismatch errors, or before delegating to sub-agents.

Gateway Guard

Description

Ensures OpenClaw gateway auth consistency and can auto-prompt "continue" when a run error (Unhandled stop reason: error) appears in gateway logs. Use when checking or fixing gateway token/password mismatch, device_token_mismatch errors, or before delegating to sub-agents.

Gateway Guard

Keeps OpenClaw gateway authentication in sync with openclaw.json. Use when the user or agent sees gateway auth issues, device_token_mismatch, or needs to ensure the gateway is running with the correct token/password before spawning sub-agents.

Metadata: This skill uses always: false in _meta.json. It is not forced into every agent run; the orchestrator invokes it when needed (e.g. before delegating to sub-agents). Optional persistence (LaunchAgent) is installed only when you run the install scripts; see "Before installing" below.

Before installing

Backup openclaw.json — The script may add or correct gateway.auth (token/password) when missing or wrong. Make a copy before running ensure --apply.
Test read-only first — Run python3 scripts/gateway_guard.py status --json and python3 scripts/gateway_guard.py ensure --json (without --apply) to see what it would do before allowing restarts or config writes.
Understand continue delivery — The watcher can run openclaw agent --message continue --deliver when a run error appears in gateway.log. Confirm that automatically sending that message is acceptable in your environment.
LaunchAgent is optional — Persistence (watcher every 30s) is installed only if you run install_watcher.sh. The installer copies the plist from the skill directory into ~/Library/LaunchAgents and runs launchctl load; only run it if you accept that. The plist is included in this package: scripts/com.openclaw.gateway-guard.watcher.plist (and scripts/com.openclaw.gateway-guard.continue-on-error.plist). Ensure OPENCLAW_HOME and OPENCLAW_BIN resolve to your intended paths before installing the watcher.
Try in a non-production environment first if you are unsure.

Package contents (file manifest)

Included in this skill so installers do not error:

Read Full Documentation on GitHub

Metadata

Author@austindixson

Stars4473

Updated2026-05-01

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-austindixson-gateway-guard": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

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