New Agent Setup

What This Skill Does

The New Agent Setup skill is a comprehensive automation and management suite designed to streamline the lifecycle of adding new OpenClaw agents to your infrastructure. Created by boltth, this skill serves as the foundational orchestrator for agent onboarding, ensuring that every configuration, from Discord bot integration to cron job scheduling and OneDrive synchronization, follows a strictly validated protocol.

This skill eliminates the manual trial-and-error often associated with complex agent deployments. By enforcing a standardized four-phase process, it ensures that your system remains consistent, performant, and correctly mapped across Mission Control (MC) and local workspace environments. It handles the critical aspects of agent identity (name-to-ID mapping), security configuration, and cross-platform communication channels.

Installation

To install this skill, use the following command in your OpenClaw terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/boltth/new-agent-setup

Use Cases

This skill is ideal for:

• Rapidly scaling your agent fleet while maintaining uniform configuration standards.
• Automating the onboarding process for new specialized AI assistants.
• Ensuring consistent heartbeat, monitoring, and synchronization across all agents.
• Reducing technical debt by enforcing standardized directory structures and file path symlinks for OneDrive integration.

Example Prompts

1. "Tom, I need to bring a new agent named 'Saul' online for administrative tasks. Can you start the setup process?"
2. "We've got a new developer agent called 'Gale' joining the team; please run the onboarding sequence and set up the necessary cron jobs."
3. "Can you help me add a new agent 'Skyler' and ensure she has access to the standard research OneDrive library?"

Tips & Limitations

• Safety First: Never attempt to modify openclaw.json or proceed with configuration until you have verified that the Discord bot and channel creation tasks are completed by the administrator.
• Consistency: Remember that once one agent has a heartbeat, all agents must have an explicit heartbeat block defined to prevent synchronization errors.
• Cron Management: Always check the existing cron schedule before assigning a new minute slot to prevent overlap (e.g., if slots 0-4 are taken, assign the next agent to minute 5).
• Pathing: Ensure your OneDrive symlinks point to ~/.openclaw/onedrive/<library> to maintain compatibility with the core OpenClaw file system mapping. Failure to follow the prescribed naming convention (capitalized name to lowercase ID) will break the workspace generation logic.