pet

What This Skill Does

Pet is an essential CLI-based snippet manager designed to enhance developer productivity by allowing you to save, organize, and execute complex terminal commands with ease. Rather than relying on your shell history or a loose collection of notes, Pet creates a structured repository for your most frequently used command-line operations. It simplifies your workflow by storing these commands in a clean TOML format and providing an interactive interface to search and execute them instantly. Whether it is a lengthy SSH tunnel command, a complex git merge sequence, or a multi-flagged database backup utility, Pet ensures that you never have to re-type or search your terminal history for these operations again.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your environment, use the OpenClaw management CLI:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/gumadeiras/pet

Once installed, ensure your environment has the necessary permissions to read and write to the ~/.config/pet/ directory, where your snippet database and configuration files are maintained.

Use Cases

Pet is ideal for DevOps engineers, developers, and system administrators who manage complex CLI environments. Use it to:

• Store complex one-liners: Maintain a library of commands for production deployment or log analysis.
• Standardize team workflows: Distribute a snippet.toml file to team members to ensure everyone uses the same flags and parameters for build or test processes.
• Reduce cognitive load: Stop trying to memorize obscure flag configurations for tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS CLI.
• Sync across machines: By configuring a GitHub Gist, you can synchronize your snippet collection across multiple workstations or servers, ensuring your library is always available.

Example Prompts

1. "OpenClaw, use the pet skill to save a new snippet for checking the current disk usage with human-readable formatting."
2. "Search my pet snippets for the command I saved for resetting the database connection pool."
3. "Sync my current snippet collection to my GitHub Gist using the pet configuration."

Tips & Limitations

• Tip: Use descriptive titles and tags within the description field to make searching via pet search significantly faster.
• Tip: If you frequently use a specific set of commands, group them logically or create distinct snippets for different project environments.
• Limitation: Pet does not currently support multi-line scripts or complex shell functions natively within the snippet file. If a command is extremely long, ensure it is properly escaped before saving. Always verify the safety of snippets before execution, especially if they involve destructive actions like data deletion.