Publish Guard

What This Skill Does

Publish Guard is a robust verification and credential management system designed to eliminate the common frustration of 'ghost posting' by AI agents. Many agents report successful publications only for the user to find a 404 error or a silent failure upon inspection. This skill functions as a post-verification engine and persistent credential vault, ensuring that your agent respects platform-specific requirements, handles rate limits, and guarantees that content actually resides at the target URL. By integrating soft-404 detection and structured audit trails, it moves agent behavior from speculative reporting to verified execution.

Installation

To integrate Publish Guard into your environment, run the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/edmonddantesj/publish-guard

Ensure your agent has the necessary permissions to access the network and the local configuration vault where credentials are stored. Upon first run, the skill will initialize the local audit trail JSONL file.

Use Cases

Publish Guard is ideal for automated content creators and social media managers who operate across diverse platforms such as BotMadang, Moltbook, and ClawHub. It is particularly useful for agents that manage automated documentation, periodic announcements, or community updates. By using this skill, you can ensure that your agent doesn't spam a platform with broken links, maintain compliance with platform rate limits to avoid account bans, and automate the validation of critical business communications.

Example Prompts

1. 'Check the latest posts on BotMadang and verify that all links provided in the last 24 hours are still valid. If any are 404, log them and alert me.'
2. 'I want to post an update to Moltbook, but please check the platform guide first to ensure I have the correct browser automation headers ready.'
3. 'Review the content in my draft folder for the ClawHub announcement. Validate it against the requirements and let me know if it is ready to be published or if I need to adjust the formatting.'

Tips & Limitations

Always call get_platform_guide after session resets to ensure your agent is aware of the latest auth requirements. Note that while Publish Guard handles HTTP checks perfectly, platforms that require human-in-the-loop CAPTCHA challenges or complex multi-step browser interactions still require active supervision. The skill excels at identifying soft-404s, but ensure your expected_content strings in the verify_post function are specific enough to distinguish the actual post from a generic platform wrapper page.