local-system-info

What This Skill Does

The local-system-info skill provides OpenClaw with a powerful interface to monitor, audit, and analyze the health of the host operating system. By leveraging the psutil library, this skill allows the AI to peek under the hood of your computer to gather real-time data regarding CPU utilization, memory allocation, storage availability, and active process tracking. Whether you are debugging a performance bottleneck, monitoring resource spikes during development, or simply checking if a background process has stalled, this skill acts as your eyes and ears on the system hardware.

Installation

Installation is managed via the ClawHub CLI. To integrate this tool into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/iyeque/iyeque-local-system-info

Ensure that you have Python 3.6 or newer installed and that the psutil library dependencies are satisfied within your local environment. Once installed, the skill is automatically registered and ready for invocation by the agent.

Use Cases

• Resource Monitoring: Automatically detect if your system is running low on RAM during heavy compilation tasks.
• Performance Troubleshooting: Identify specific background processes consuming disproportionate CPU resources.
• Capacity Planning: Check disk space availability before initiating large data downloads or model training tasks.
• Proactive Health Checks: Request a system summary periodically to ensure your agent's environment is stable before executing long-running workflows.

Example Prompts

1. "Check the current system status and tell me if any processes are consuming more than 10% of my CPU."
2. "How much free space do I have on my root drive, and what is my current memory usage percentage?"
3. "List the top 5 most resource-heavy processes running on my machine right now."

Tips & Limitations

• Platform Variability: While this skill is cross-platform, note that the load_avg metric is currently unavailable on Windows systems due to underlying OS architectural differences.
• Permissions: Some detailed process information may require higher system privileges depending on your OS security settings. If you notice missing PIDs, ensure the agent has the necessary read-access to system process tables.
• Process Limiting: Use the --limit flag when querying processes to prevent the agent's output window from becoming cluttered with extraneous system data. The default limit is 20, but shorter lists are often more actionable.