Auto-Updater Pro

Enhanced auto-updater with detailed logging, missed run recovery, and Gateway restart protection.

Version: 1.1.0 (Updated 2026-02-22)

What's New:

• ✅ Detailed logging at each step (prevents state loss on restart)
• ✅ Missed run recovery (auto-runs if Gateway was offline)
• ✅ 30-second delay after updates (prevents interruption)
• ✅ Email report support (less intrusive than chat messages)
• ✅ Better error handling and retry logic

Note: This is an enhanced version of the original auto-updater skill with production-ready features.

What It Does

This skill sets up a daily cron job that:

1. Updates Clawdbot itself (via clawdbot doctor or package manager)
2. Updates all installed skills (via clawdhub update --all)
3. Messages you with a summary of what was updated
4. New: Logs every step to prevent state loss on Gateway restart
5. New: Auto-recovers if the scheduled time was missed

Setup

Quick Start

Ask Clawdbot to set up the auto-updater:

Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all your skills.

Or manually add the cron job:

clawdbot cron add \
  --name "Daily Auto-Update" \
  --cron "0 4 * * *" \
  --tz "America/Los_Angeles" \
  --session isolated \
  --wake now \
  --deliver \
  --message "Run daily auto-updates: check for Clawdbot updates and update all skills. Report what was updated."

Recommended Configuration (v1.1.0+)

For production use, add these settings to your cron job:

{
  "schedule": {
    "expr": "0 4 * * *",
    "kind": "cron",
    "tz": "Asia/Shanghai"
  },
  "missedRunPolicy": "run-immediately",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "agentTurn",
    "message": "...",
    "timeoutSeconds": 600
  }
}

Key Settings:

• missedRunPolicy: "run-immediately" - Auto-runs if Gateway was offline at scheduled time
• timeoutSeconds: 600 - Allow 10 minutes for updates to complete
• tz: "Asia/Shanghai" - Set to your timezone

Configuration Options

How Updates Work

Clawdbot Updates

For npm/pnpm/bun installs:

npm update -g clawdbot@latest
# or: pnpm update -g clawdbot@latest
# or: bun update -g clawdbot@latest

For source installs (git checkout):

clawdbot update

Always run clawdbot doctor after updating to apply migrations.

Skill Updates

clawdhub update --all

This checks all installed skills against the registry and updates any with new versions available.

Update Summary Format

After updates complete, you'll receive a message like:

🔄 Daily Auto-Update Complete