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Read Optimizer

Skill by autogame-17

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/autogame-17/read-optimizer
Or

What This Skill Does

The Read Optimizer skill is a high-performance utility designed to handle large-scale file inspection tasks within OpenClaw. Instead of exhausting token limits or introducing unnecessary latency by reading entire files, this skill intelligently filters content. It provides three primary modes: 'Smart' for combined head-and-tail previews, 'Grep' for pattern-based extraction, and 'Diff' for identifying recent code modifications. By leveraging these focused access patterns, you maintain a high context-window efficiency, allowing your AI agent to debug logs or analyze massive source code files without performance bottlenecks.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw command-line interface as follows: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/autogame-17/read-optimizer Once installed, the utility becomes available as an executable command within your agent's execution environment, allowing for rapid deployment across various agent sessions.

Use Cases

  1. Log Debugging: Instantly extract relevant error lines from massive log files (e.g., system.log or web server logs) using the grep mode.
  2. Large Repository Analysis: Use the diff mode to see exactly what has changed in a file since the last commit, which is ideal for code review workflows.
  3. Long Document Review: Utilize smart reading to preview the start and end of large configuration files or documentation, ensuring you understand the structure without overhead.

Example Prompts

  1. "OpenClaw, read the first and last 200 lines of /var/log/server.log to see the status of the service."
  2. "Search for any instances of 'critical' or 'warning' in the main.js file using the read-optimizer skill."
  3. "Show me the recent changes made to the authController.js file by using the diff mode."

Tips & Limitations

  • Pattern Sensitivity: When using grep mode, ensure your regex patterns are properly escaped if they contain special shell characters.
  • Performance: While this tool is highly efficient, remember that 'diff' mode requires the local directory to be a initialized git repository.
  • Token Conservation: Always use the 'smart' mode for files exceeding 10,000 lines to prevent the agent from hitting token truncation limits.
  • Data Privacy: Ensure that you have appropriate read permissions for the file path provided, as this skill performs direct file system I/O.

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Add to Configuration

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

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-autogame-17-read-optimizer": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags(AI)

#file-processing#efficiency#logs#optimization#developer-tools
Safety Score: 4/5

Flags: file-read