auto-updater

What This Skill Does

The auto-updater skill is an essential maintenance tool for your OpenClaw environment, ensuring that your Clawdbot agent and all associated skills remain at their latest versions. By scheduling a daily maintenance window, it eliminates the need for manual oversight and prevents the accumulation of outdated, potentially insecure, or buggy software. The skill operates by orchestrating automated package manager calls for the core bot and leveraging clawdhub to synchronize your skill registry. Upon completion, it delivers a concise summary report directly to your chat interface, detailing which packages were updated, version transitions, and listing any components that are already up-to-date.

Installation

To begin, ensure you have the OpenClawProvider installed as per your OS instructions. Once configured, you can trigger the automated setup by simply asking your agent, "Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all your skills." Alternatively, for granular control over the scheduling and timezone, you may manually register the job using the clawdbot cron add command. This approach allows you to specify a preferred time (e.g., 4:00 AM) to ensure updates occur during off-hours, minimizing interference with your daily tasks.

Use Cases

This skill is perfect for power users and developers who maintain a large suite of skills and require high availability. It is also ideal for standard users who want a "set it and forget it" experience, ensuring their AI agent is always equipped with the latest features, security patches, and performance optimizations. Furthermore, by automatically running the clawdbot doctor command, it ensures that your environment remains consistent as newer versions of the bot require internal database or configuration migrations.

Example Prompts

1. "Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all your skills."
2. "Check if there are any available updates for my skills right now and tell me what they are."
3. "Show me the status of my current installed skills and their version numbers."

Tips & Limitations

Always ensure that your OpenClawProvider is running, as the auto-updater relies on it for background execution. While the automated process is robust, we recommend periodically checking your cron list with clawdbot cron list to verify that the job is still active. Note that if you have custom modifications in your local source code, automated updates may occasionally trigger merge conflicts; always maintain backups of your configuration files. If an update fails, check the logs by running the update command manually to identify potential network or permission issues.