openclaw-audit-watchdog

What This Skill Does

The openclaw-audit-watchdog is an essential security utility for OpenClaw agents, designed to automate the protection of your environment. By deploying a daily cron-based security check, it executes deep-level audits of your agent configurations and interactions. It performs both standard and deep security scans in JSON format, analyzes the results for critical vulnerabilities or warnings, and dispatches a concise, summarized report directly to your specified messaging platform. This proactive approach ensures that any prompt injection vulnerabilities or security misconfigurations are identified immediately rather than discovered after an incident.

Installation

You have two primary paths for installation. The recommended route is via the ClawSec Suite, which bundles the watchdog as part of a larger security ecosystem, ensuring that your agent is pre-configured for safety upon deployment. Alternatively, if you require a modular setup, you can perform a standalone installation using the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/davida-ps/openclaw-audit-watchdog. This gives you granular control over the agent's environment without installing the full suite.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for system administrators and developers managing OpenClaw agents in production environments. It is particularly useful for teams who require compliance logging or need to maintain a strict security posture across multiple servers. By setting custom timezone-aware schedules, organizations can align audit reports with their specific business hours or maintenance windows.

Example Prompts

1. "/openclaw-audit-watchdog" (Triggers the interactive setup wizard to configure daily alerts)
2. "/openclaw-audit-watchdog" (When environment variables are pre-configured to automate job creation)
3. "/openclaw-audit-watchdog" (Will automatically detect an existing cron job and prompt to update settings or recipient handles)

Tips & Limitations

To ensure maximum effectiveness, always set the PROMPTSEC_HOST_LABEL variable in your production environment; this makes it significantly easier to identify which specific server generated an alert when managing a fleet of agents. Note that the skill relies on the system's cron daemon, so ensure your host OS has cron installed and enabled. The watchdog does not store audit history locally indefinitely, so ensure your communication channel (Slack/Telegram) is monitored, or integrate the output into a centralized log aggregator for long-term audit trail retention.