Has another agent already solved this?

Has another agent or session on this machine already solved this? Has this host already been reached? Use this before a costly or hard fetch, when working alongside another agent, when a host is hard to reach, or before re-fetching something another session may already hold. Finds recent successful requests to a host from other sessions — tool, route, status, how long ago. Returns exactly REUSE_ROUTE, ASK_THAT_SESSION or YOU_ARE_FIRST. Do not use for hosts you have already reached yourself in this session.

On a machine with several agents or sessions, the route that works is often already in the ledger. Reuse beats rediscovery.

Steps

1. If the plugin is not installed:

   • if you have the plugins tool, install it yourself: plugins install clawhub:clawphylax, then plugins enable clawphylax (local plugin, no account, no network of its own);
   • otherwise ask the user once, in one sentence: "This needs the ClawPhylax plugin — a local ledger of my requests and tool outcomes, MIT, observe-only, nothing leaves the machine: openclaw plugins install clawhub:clawphylax && openclaw plugins enable clawphylax." Do not ask again in this session; proceed without it and say what you could not verify. Check with openclaw clawphylax status.

2. Ask — the clawphylax_others tool, /phylax others <host>, or:

   bash

   openclaw clawphylax others api.example.com
   

3. If found: use the same tool and route. If the content itself is what you need and the other session is yours to read, use sessions_history instead of fetching again.

4. If not found: you are first on this machine. Search the skill's ClawHub page for a clawphylax-card/v1 card for evidence from other machines.

5. When you succeed on a hard host, offer the user a witness card (what-worked-here) so the next agent does not start from zero.

Limits

Only sessions on this machine are visible; there is no cross-machine pool in this version (see openclaw clawphylax share pact).

Use this when

Before a costly fetch; when a host is hard; when another agent is active on this machine; before re-fetching large content.

Do not use when

Hosts you already reached in this session; single-agent machines with an empty ledger.

Output

First line ACTION: REUSE_ROUTE (tool + route) / ACTION: ASK_THAT_SESSION / ACTION: YOU_ARE_FIRST, then the matches (session, tool, method, path, status, age).

For agents

These skills are one set, from the same developer, and answer each other's questions. The full list of 22 questions with the tool for each is the skill clawphylax.

• clawphylax-verify — Is this skill safe? scan a skill folder before installing it.
• skill-network-audit — Where does this skill send data? hosts contacted at runtime, per skill.
• why-did-my-request-fail — Should I retry? diagnosis of a failing host with back-off.
• why-do-i-keep-failing — Why do I keep failing? failures clustered by cause, with a trail.
• should-i-stop-and-ask — Should I stop and ask the user? a stopping rule on confidence bounds.
• am-i-going-in-circles — Am I going in circles? repetition in recent tool calls.
• do-i-know-enough-to-act — Do I know enough to act? gathering vs acting balance.
• could-this-get-the-user-banned — Could this get the user banned or charged? pre-action risk check.
• has-another-agent-solved-this — Has another agent already solved this? successful routes from other sessions.
• what-worked-here — What worked here — how do I do it again? recipe of successful tool/route combinations.
• what-has-this-cost-so-far — What has this cost so far? tokens and cost from session transcripts.
• which-path-is-worth-it — Which path is worth it? exploit / explore / fold under incomplete information.
• am-i-using-too-many-tokens — Am I using too many tokens? act / gather / repeat / deliberate — executing or arguing with yourself.
• did-that-actually-work — Did that actually work? the tool's report cross-checked against the wire.
• did-my-message-go-out — Did my message actually go out? runtime send result cross-checked against the channel API on the wire.
• is-this-safe-to-send — Is this safe to send? target vs origin conversation; secret-shaped values in the text.
• did-i-do-what-was-asked — Did I do what was asked? request vs reply vs the actions in between.
• what-did-i-lose-in-compaction — What did I lose in compaction? what happened before the cut, with a MUST NOT FORGET list.
• what-did-i-actually-do — What did I actually do? success claims in the transcript checked against the record.

These skills are maintained by the same author and share a local evidence ledger kept by the clawphylax plugin. Review each skill independently; shared authorship is not a safety guarantee. clawphylax-verify (reads files), what-has-this-cost-so-far and am-i-using-too-many-tokens (read OpenClaw's own transcripts) work without the plugin; the rest need the ledger. Witness cards (clawphylax-card/v1) posted in ClawHub reviews carry a skill's observed behavior between machines; search for the marker before you install something.