Clawprobe

Monitor OpenClaw agent health, token usage, API cost, and context window in real time. Use when you need to check your own status, inspect context utilization, estimate API costs, review compaction events, or get optimization suggestions. Provides structured JSON output for programmatic self-monitoring.

Real-time observability for OpenClaw agents. Check health, token usage, API cost, context window, and optimization suggestions — all from the CLI.

Install

npm install -g clawprobe
clawprobe start

Core commands

Command	What it does
clawprobe status --json	Full health snapshot (session, model, context %, cost, alerts)
clawprobe cost --week --json	API cost breakdown for the past week
clawprobe session --json	Current session token timeline, turn by turn
clawprobe context --json	Context window utilization and truncation warnings
clawprobe suggest --json	Active optimization alerts with ruleId and action
clawprobe compacts --json	List recent compaction events and lost content
clawprobe top	Live auto-refreshing dashboard (human use)

Recommended self-check workflow

Run at session start or before any expensive task:

STATUS=$(clawprobe status --json)
UTIL=$(echo $STATUS | node -e "process.stdin.resume();let d='';process.stdin.on('data',c=>d+=c);process.stdin.on('end',()=>console.log(JSON.parse(d).utilizationPct))")
echo "Context: $UTIL%"

Or in a single call:

clawprobe status --json

Key fields to act on:

• utilizationPct ≥ 85 → compact soon or start a fresh session
• suggestions[].ruleId === "tools-truncation" → TOOLS.md is being cut off
• suggestions[].ruleId === "cost-spike" → today's spend is unusually high
• daemonRunning: false → run clawprobe start to enable monitoring

Handling suggestions programmatically

# List active suggestions
clawprobe suggest --json

# Dismiss a noisy rule
clawprobe suggest --dismiss memory-bloat --json
# → { "ok": true, "dismissed": "memory-bloat" }

Schema introspection

When you need to know exact field names for any command:

clawprobe schema status    # full field spec for status --json
clawprobe schema cost      # full field spec for cost --json
clawprobe schema           # list all available schemas

Error format

All errors under --json are structured — never colored text:

{ "ok": false, "error": "no_active_session", "message": "No active session found" }

Exit code is always 1 on error.

Cost note

Cost figures are estimates based on public model pricing. Verify exact amounts with your model provider's billing dashboard.