My Shell

What This Skill Does

The My Shell skill, authored by gdwebw, provides a robust and persistent interface for interacting with your system's command line directly through an OpenClaw AI agent. It is designed to act as a bridge between your natural language requests and the Linux terminal. By anchoring all operations within a dedicated tmux session named 'claw', this skill ensures that your workspace remains consistent, organized, and isolated from your primary terminal sessions. It automatically handles the lifecycle of the session, creating it if it does not exist and attaching to it to execute your commands, then capturing the output to provide you with actionable intelligence or status updates.

Installation

To integrate this utility into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/gdwebw/my-shell. Once installed, the agent will have immediate access to the tool, allowing you to perform administrative tasks, source control operations, or run diagnostic scripts without ever leaving your chat interface.

Use Cases

This skill is indispensable for power users and developers who need to bridge AI reasoning with system-level tasks. Common use cases include:

• Monitoring system processes and logs in real-time without manual context switching.
• Managing Git repositories, including checking status, pulling updates, and managing branches.
• Running automated diagnostic scripts and parsing the results via the AI.
• Fetching data from remote web services using CLI tools like curl or specialized fetchers.
• Executing batch file operations that require logic only an AI can provide.

Example Prompts

1. "Check the status of the current git repository and tell me if there are any uncommitted changes."
2. "Search the system logs for the last ten errors and explain what might be causing them."
3. "List all files in the current directory, excluding hidden ones, and sort them by date modified."

Tips & Limitations

When using My Shell, remember that it operates with the permissions of the underlying user. For safety, the skill includes built-in safeguards against destructive commands like rm -rf or system shutdowns, requiring user confirmation. Always be specific in your prompts to ensure the AI executes exactly what you intend. Because it uses tmux, your command history and running processes inside the 'claw' session will persist between AI interactions, which is ideal for long-running scripts but requires manual cleanup if you leave processes running indefinitely. Avoid running interactive full-screen TUI applications, as they may cause formatting issues when capturing output.