Janitor

What This Skill Does

Janitor is a powerful, autonomous maintenance suite for your OpenClaw AI agents. It serves as a background optimization layer, designed to prevent performance degradation caused by bloated cache directories, excessive memory consumption, and uncontrolled context expansion. By intelligently managing system resources, the Janitor skill ensures your agent remains fast, responsive, and within the token limits of your underlying LLM. It performs critical housekeeping tasks like pruning stale session logs, clearing Node.js module caches, removing temporary build artifacts, and archiving session data to maintain a clean workspace. With its advanced real-time monitoring, the skill can trigger emergency recovery operations when your context window approaches capacity, preventing critical errors during complex agent tasks.

Installation

To install this skill, run the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/sarthib7/janitor

Ensure you have the necessary environment access if you plan to run automated cleanup tasks following deployment workflows. No external API keys are required for basic local filesystem operations.

Use Cases

Janitor is ideal for:

• Long-running agents that persist over multiple days or weeks.
• Developers working in environments with frequent build/test cycles (CI/CD).
• Systems with limited RAM or disk storage where automated garbage collection is vital.
• Large-scale projects where context overflow during conversation sessions is a frequent hurdle.

Example Prompts

1. "Janitor, please perform a full system cleanup to free up memory and remove unused cache files from my workspace."
2. "Check our current memory usage and prune any chat sessions older than 7 days to keep our context window lean."
3. "Janitor, run an automated cleanup cycle and archive the current session data before we start the next project phase."

Tips & Limitations

To get the best results, configure the unusedFileAgeDays parameter based on your specific project needs. While Janitor includes safety filters to prevent deleting core project files like package.json or .git folders, always maintain backups of critical data. Note that Janitor operates locally and cannot prune cloud-hosted vector databases or external remote caches. For optimal performance, run the cleanup cycle during agent downtime to prevent latency spikes during intense data processing tasks.