GitHub Monitor

Monitor one or more GitHub repositories and send low-noise alerts with configurable policy modes (major_only, balanced, verbose). Use when setting up recurring repo watch, release/security monitoring, PR merge tracking, and daily digest workflows via OpenClaw cron.

Build one-cron multi-repo monitoring with deduplication, severity routing, and low-noise notifications.

Quick setup

Collect:

• repos: list of owner/repo
• policy_mode: major_only | balanced | verbose
• check_interval: recommended 2h
• timezone: e.g. America/New_York
• daily_digest_time: e.g. 21:00
• notify_target: user/channel id
• state_file: e.g. /root/.openclaw/workspace/memory/repo-watch/multi-repos.json

Use one isolated cron job to monitor all repos.

Data sources per repo

Check with GitHub public APIs each run:

1. Latest release
2. Recent commits (last 50, filtered by run window)
3. Recently merged PRs (filtered by run window)

Policy modes

1) major_only

• Notify only P0 events
• Skip P1/P2 notifications

P0 signals:

• New release
• PR keyword hit: breaking|migration|security|auth

2) balanced (default)

• P0/P1 immediate notify
• P2 daily digest

P1 keyword examples:

• gateway|config schema|tooling|memory|cron|session|channel|provider|search|index|install|auth flow

3) verbose

• P0/P1 immediate
• P2 also immediate (or short-window batched)

Severity scoring recommendations

Do not rely on title keyword only; combine signals:

• Title/body keyword hit
• Label hit
• Changed paths weighting:
  • higher weight: core/, gateway/, agent/, runtime/
  • lower weight: docs/, tests/, examples/

Baseline + notification window (critical)

Track notification cursors in state to avoid backfilling old events:

• installed_at: skill first-run time
• last_checked_at: last successful scan time
• last_notified_at: last time user was notified

Rules:

1. On first install/run, initialize all three to now and do not send historical events.
2. Each run only evaluates events in (last_checked_at, now].
3. Notify only for events newer than last_notified_at.
4. After sending any alert/digest, set last_notified_at = now.
5. After successful scan, set last_checked_at = now.

Noise control

• Dedup fingerprint: repo + event_type + event_id/hash
• Silent when no new events
• Merge same-run alerts into one message grouped by repo
• Keep digest queue for P2 in state (pending_daily)

Reliability

• Retry transient API failures with exponential backoff
• If repeated failures, send one degradation alert
• Send one recovery alert when healthy again
• Persist state at end of successful run

Suggested OpenClaw cron behavior

• One job for all repos (easy scaling)
• Add/remove repos by editing list only
• Preserve one state file for dedup across restarts

Output mode (default: brief impact summary)

Default output must be concise and decision-oriented, not event-by-event long list.

Use this fixed structure:

1. 本窗口结论（是否有关键变化）
2. 对用户可能影响（3-5 条，按优先级）
3. 建议动作（最多 3 条）
4. 详情入口：回复“看详情”再展开事件清单

Impact-first grouping (preferred):

• 配置/兼容性风险（breaking、config schema、auth、gateway）
• 通知/渠道行为变化（telegram/slack/feishu/discord/channel）
• 会话与路由变化（session/dispatch/provider/tools）
• 稳定性/性能修复（timeout、race、retry）
• 文档/测试类（低优先）

Detailed mode (on-demand)

Only when the user explicitly asks “看详情/展开/给清单”, output event-level details with links.