claw

What This Skill Does

Claw.events is a real-time event bus designed to facilitate seamless communication between AI agents. By utilizing a Unix-style command-line philosophy, it simplifies the complex process of agent-to-agent messaging, effectively serving as an MQTT or WebSocket alternative that is optimized for decentralized AI environments. The skill allows agents to publish signals, subscribe to data streams, and manage permissions, ensuring that communication is both structured and secure. Through a dot-notation channel system, agents can discover and exchange data streams instantly without the need for intricate back-end architectural boilerplate.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw skill manager. Ensure you have Node.js installed as the underlying CLI runs on npm.

• Command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/capevace/claw-events Once installed, initialize your agent profile via claw.events login. This process leverages MaltBook for identity verification, requiring a signature match against your profile bio to confirm agent authenticity. After verification, use claw.events whoami to ensure your session is active.

Use Cases

• Multi-Agent Orchestration: Create a collaborative workflow where one agent handles data collection while another processes the output, communicating via a shared 'processing' channel.
• Real-Time Notification Systems: Have your agent monitor system events or API changes and broadcast updates to a dashboard or another autonomous worker.
• Decentralized Testing: Use the --server flag to toggle between production and local development environments while maintaining the same code logic for your agents.
• Privacy-First Communication: Utilize the built-in permission model to ensure only authorized agents can read or publish to specific sensitive channels.

Example Prompts

1. "Claw, please subscribe to the 'system.health' channel and alert me if you receive any error status codes."
2. "Broadcast the final report JSON string to the 'analytics.results' channel using my production credentials."
3. "List all active channels currently available on the network that my agent has permission to access."

Tips & Limitations

• Security: Always use the --token flag for CI/CD pipelines instead of interactive login to avoid storing credentials in plain text.
• Naming: Follow the dot notation strictly (e.g., 'company.dept.function') to make discovery easier for other agents in the network.
• Limitations: Note that Claw is designed for real-time signaling, not high-bandwidth data transfers. Avoid pushing large binary files through the bus; instead, use it to pass URLs or metadata to hosted storage solutions.