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This is a disclosed operations helper for keeping an OpenClaw agent running, with sensitive but user-directed cron, credential, polling, and cleanup behavior.
Install only on a dedicated, physically secured host. Use scoped queue tokens, keep secrets.env chmod 600 and out of git, verify every cron job ID and tool profile before enabling unattended runs, and confirm that the queue and notification destinations are systems you are authorized to use.
scripts/oauth-expiry-check.sh scripts/purge-retention.sh # cron-message.sh is sourced: 644 # The scripts read nothing from the network until this file exists. cat > scripts/secrets.env <<'EOF' QUEUE_URL=https://api.acme-corp.example/queue API_TOKEN=replace-me EOF chmod 600 scripts/secrets.env # never commit it; it is not shipped with this skill
| Credentials | A gateway token (loopback only), a provider auth profile, and any queue Bearer you add. All in `~/.openclaw/` or the OS keychain — never in git, never in the agent workspace. |
| Data persisted | Cron job definitions + run state (`~/.openclaw/cron/jobs.json`), the agent workspace and its memory files, logs. |
| Retention — **executed, not declared** | Logs: **30 days**, deleted by `scripts/purge-retention.sh` (`cr-22`, weekly). Orphaned lock dirs: **15 min** TTL, reclaimed by the dispatcher. Cron run state: life of the job — it goes when you delete the job. Workspace/memory: **no automatic purge** — `cr-22` reports its size so growth cannot stay invisible; the number you keep is yours to set. |
| Network out | Only what YOU configure: the queue you poll, the notification channel you name. Default is no network — with no `secrets.env`, the preflight emits `Human action required` and exits 0. |
| Network in | None. The gateway binds loopback. The optional loopback listener (below) is opt-in and never leaves the host. |
| Notifications | `${NOTIFY_CHANNEL}` receives short status lines. They leave the machine. Never put secrets, PII, or payload dumps in them. |chmod +x scripts/preflight-queue.sh scripts/event-dispatch.sh \
scripts/oauth-expiry-check.sh scripts/purge-retention.sh # cron-message.sh is sourced: 644
# The scripts read nothing from the network until this file exists.
cat > scripts/secrets.env <<'EOF'
QUEUE_URL=https://api.acme-corp.example/queue
API_TOKEN=replace-me
EOF| Variable | Where it lives | Who substitutes it |
|---|---|---|
| `QUEUE_URL`, `API_TOKEN` | `scripts/secrets.env` | the shell, at script run time |
| `OPENCLAW_HOME`, `OPENCLAW_AGENT_ID` | environment (optional) | the shell; default `~/.openclaw` and `main` |
| `GATEWAY_TOKEN`, `MODEL_PRIMARY`, `MODEL_FALLBACK`, `RUNTIME_ID`, `PROVIDER`, `*_PLUGIN`, `CHANNEL`, `NOTIFY_CHANNEL` | `openclaw.json` / job definitions below | **you, by hand** — OpenClaw does not interpolate `${...}` in its config. A literal `${GATEWAY_TOKEN}` left in the file is a literal token, and strict validation will not save you from it. |
| *(third-party, beyond `metadata.requires`)* | an authenticated queue endpoint you own or may call, a model provider account, a notification channel | you, before the first run |# counts; an API renaming `items` to `results` degrades to a count, not a crash loop). "Counted zero"
# is NOT "found nothing to count": an empty array is 0, but no-count-and-no-array — a 200 carrying
# {"error":"unauthorized"}, 502 HTML, a captive portal — is an Error. A green "Nothing to do" while the
# queue fills is worse than a crash. No secrets.env, dead host, junk body -> one status line, exit 0,
# never a bare shell error. Hence no `set -e`: a broken preflight must still produce a line.
# Output: pf-10-queue - Nothing to do / Result: Queue empty. / ... / Details: count=0
# Output: pf-10-queue - Error / Result: Payload carries no count and no array... / Details: reason=no_countable_fieldchmod +x scripts/preflight-queue.sh scripts/event-dispatch.sh \
scripts/oauth-expiry-check.sh scripts/purge-retention.sh # cron-message.sh is sourced: 644
# The scripts read nothing from the network until this file exists.
cat > scripts/secrets.env <<'EOF'
QUEUE_URL=https://api.acme-corp.example/queue
API_TOKEN=replace-me
EOF| Item | What this skill needs | |---|---| | Host access | A logged-in GUI desktop session, permanently. The daemon is not headless. | | Credentials | A gateway token (loopback only), a provider auth profile, and any queue Bearer you add. All in `~/.openclaw/` or the OS keychain — never in git, never in the agent workspace. | | Data persisted | Cron job definitions + run state (`~/.openclaw/cron/jobs.json`), the agent workspace and its memory files, logs. | | Retention — **executed, not declared** | Logs: **30 days**, deleted by `scripts/purge-retention.sh` (`cr-22`, weekly). Orphaned lock dirs: **15 min** TTL, reclaimed by the dispatcher. Cron run state: life of the job — it goes when you delete the job. Workspace/memory: **no automatic purge** — `cr-22` reports its size so growth cannot stay invisible; the number you keep is yours to set. | | Network out | Only what YOU configure: the queue you poll, the notification channel you name. Default is no network — with no `secrets.env`, the preflight emits `Human action required` and exits 0. |
exit 0
fi
# shellcheck disable=SC1091
source "$DIR/secrets.env"
if [ -z "${QUEUE_URL:-}" ] || [ -z "${API_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
cron_message "pf-10-queue" "Human action required" "QUEUE_URL or API_TOKEN missing from secrets.env." \exit 0
fi
# shellcheck disable=SC1091
source "$DIR/secrets.env"
if [ -z "${QUEUE_URL:-}" ] || [ -z "${API_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
cron_message "pf-10-queue" "Human action required" "QUEUE_URL or API_TOKEN missing from secrets.env." \| Gateway won't boot after an edit | Strict validation rejected an unknown key | `openclaw doctor --fix`, read the stripped-key list and the `.bak` |
| Config edited, behaviour unchanged | Last-known-good restored, or `gateway.*`/`plugins.*` needs a restart | `openclaw gateway restart`, then verify live state |
| Persistent "unauthorized" on loopback | A `launchctl setenv` token overrides the config file | Unset it, restart |
| Dispatch always says `Blocked`, no job ever runs | A killed run (restart, sleep, `kill -9`) orphaned its lock dir; the channel looks healthy | `rm -rf "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}"/openclaw-event-*.lock`. The TTL reclaims it after `LOCK_TTL_MIN`; lower it if your jobs are short |
| `cr-23` says `ok` while every turn fails | Several profiles in one auth file, and a fresh one masked the dead one — the shipped checker takes the **earliest** expiry precisely for this | Read `field` in the JSON: it names the profile that decided. If you wrote your own checker, take the min — and make "cannot determine" a `warn`, never an `ok` |
| `cr-22` reports `Not an OpenClaw home` | `OPENCLAW_HOME` points somewhere without `openclaw.json` or `agents/` — a typo or a stale env var | Intended: the purge refuses any dir it cannot prove is an agent home rather than deleting on faith. Fix the variable |
| All runs fail overnight, no alert | OAuth expired headless | `cr-23` + human relogin; consider an API key |65/65 vendors flagged this skill as clean.
No suspicious patterns detected.