crunch-compete

What This Skill Does

The crunch-compete skill serves as a comprehensive interface for managing the CrunchDAO competition lifecycle. It provides an automated bridge between the OpenClaw agent and the Crunch CLI ecosystem. By abstracting the complexity of local environment setup, dependency management, and remote authentication, it allows users to focus on model development rather than toolchain configuration. The skill manages virtual environments, assists in cloning competition quickstarters, facilitates local validation of submissions, and handles the secure deployment of model outputs to the CrunchDAO hub.

Installation

To integrate this skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/philippwassibauer/crunch-compete. Ensure you have Python 3.9+ installed on your system. Once installed, the agent will automatically detect and configure the crunch-cli package. Note that the agent will always create an isolated virtual environment to protect your system dependencies. Please ensure you have your competition-specific submission token ready, as the agent will prompt you to provide it securely during the setup phase.

Use Cases

• Project Initialization: Rapidly scaffold a new competition workspace by cloning official quickstarters from GitHub without manual shell configuration.
• Local Validation: Execute crunch test workflows within your local environment to verify data pipelines and model predictions before submitting to the leaderboard.
• Model Submission: Securely push your trained models to the CrunchDAO platform, ensuring that authentication tokens are handled without being logged in history or stored in plaintext files.
• Environment Syncing: Maintain project-specific Python environments to ensure compatibility between local testing and the platform's requirements.

Example Prompts

1. "Setup a new workspace for the latest birdgame competition and install the necessary dependencies."
2. "Run a local test on my current model code to ensure there are no breaking changes before I push to the hub."
3. "My submission token expired; help me update the credentials for this project directory."

Tips & Limitations

• Security First: Never share your submission token in chat. The agent is designed to use tokens as direct inputs for CLI authentication. If you accidentally paste it in the chat, revoke it immediately via the CrunchDAO dashboard.
• Network Limits: While local testing is offline, be mindful that package installation and model pushes require internet access. Quickstarter browsing is limited by GitHub API rate limits (60/hr).
• Environment Isolation: Always let the agent handle the virtual environment. Manually modifying the venv or .crunch/ directory may cause authentication or execution errors. If an environment becomes corrupted, simply ask the agent to recreate it.