Docker Manager

What This Skill Does

The Docker Manager skill acts as a command-line interface proxy for your AI agent, allowing it to interact directly with the Docker engine on your host machine. By leveraging the power of the exec tool, OpenClaw can monitor, inspect, and manage your containerized applications without you needing to manually type commands into a terminal. It provides a comprehensive interface for checking container health, parsing logs for errors, cleaning up unused system resources, and managing image lifecycles, making it an essential companion for developers and sysadmins.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, ensure you have the necessary Docker permissions configured for the user running the agent. Run the following command in your console: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/mkrdiop/moltbot-docker

Use Cases

This skill is highly versatile for various operational tasks. Use it to automatically restart crashed services, troubleshoot application errors by analyzing recent logs, or reclaim disk space by pruning orphaned volumes and dangling images. It is particularly useful for CI/CD pipelines or local development environments where containers are spun up and torn down frequently. You can also ask the agent to monitor resource consumption, allowing it to alert you if a specific container is spiking in CPU or memory usage.

Example Prompts

1. "Check why my 'web-server' container keeps crashing and show me the last 50 lines of logs."
2. "List all currently running containers and tell me which ones are using the most memory."
3. "I think I have too many old images taking up space, can you help me clean up the system safely?"

Tips & Limitations

• Safety First: Always verify which containers or images will be removed when performing cleanup operations. The skill includes built-in safety prompts, but double-checking is best practice.
• Readability: Since Docker output can be voluminous, use specific commands (like --tail) to avoid flooding the chat window with text.
• Diagnostics: If a container fails to start, combine docker logs and docker inspect for a complete picture of the configuration and the error state.
• Privileges: Ensure your agent has appropriate system permissions to interact with the Docker socket; otherwise, many management commands will fail with permission-denied errors.