clawdbot-update-plus

What This Skill Does

Clawdbot-update-plus is an essential utility for power users of the Clawdbot ecosystem. It serves as a comprehensive lifecycle management tool, handling full backups, environment updates, and system restoration. By automating the protection of configuration files, workspaces, and installed skills, it ensures that your agent environment remains stable and recoverable. The core value proposition lies in its 'safety-first' design, which includes automatic pre-update snapshots and an intelligent auto-rollback mechanism that triggers if an update process encounters errors. With support for encrypted backups and off-site cloud synchronization via rclone, it provides enterprise-grade data integrity for your personal AI agent configuration.

Installation

Installation is streamlined via the ClawdHub manager. Simply execute clawdhub install openclaw/skills/skills/hopyky/clawdbot-update-plus --dir ~/.clawdbot/skills. For users preferring a manual approach, you can clone the repository directly from the source. After acquiring the files, it is highly recommended to symlink the binary into your local user bin directory (e.g., ln -sf ~/.clawdbot/skills/clawdbot-update-plus/bin/clawdbot-update-plus ~/bin/clawdbot-update-plus) to allow for global execution from any shell. Ensure that you have git, jq, and rsync installed on your system as these are mandatory dependencies for the backup and update logic to function correctly.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for developers who iterate frequently on custom skills and worry about breaking their local agent setup. It is ideal for those who manage multiple directories for production and development, allowing separate update policies for each. Additionally, it serves as an excellent disaster recovery solution for users migrating their agent settings between machines, utilizing the cloud sync feature to move backups across remote storage providers like Google Drive or AWS S3.

Example Prompts

1. "Clawdbot, run a full backup of my current environment before I start testing these new experimental skills."
2. "Update all my production skills and verify the environment integrity afterwards."
3. "Restore my configuration from the last backup created on January 25th because the recent update caused a path conflict."

Tips & Limitations

To maximize effectiveness, ensure your ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot-update.json configuration is correctly defined with appropriate exclude paths to avoid backing up massive temporary directories like node_modules or logs. Note that while the tool supports GPG encryption, you must maintain your GPG key securely; losing access to your private key will render your encrypted backups unrecoverable. For those with limited disk space, tune the backup_count variable to keep your local storage footprint minimal.