BD openclaw-keepalive
Keep OpenClaw gateway running 24/7 on a laptop or workstation. Use when: (1) user reports gateway disconnects or crashes, (2) user asks how to make OpenClaw run persistently, (3) user wants auto-start on boot, (4) user needs process monitoring or auto-restart, (5) user mentions "keep alive", "daemon", "service", "background", "startup", "24/7". Covers Windows/Linux/macOS with cross-platform scripts and configuration.
As a process D 48/100 · Unfinished process — weak spots: result and completion, when it triggers, inputs and preconditions
What is at stake
The skill contains fragments that, in the wrong hands, cost money or data. Below: what the installer risks and what the author should do.
The skill contains commands that delete files, rewrite disks or execute code fetched from the network. The agent may run them without asking if it believes the instructions require it.
Replace destructive commands with safe equivalents that ask for confirmation, scope them to one folder, and stop piping curl into a shell: pin a version and a checksum.
How to improve
- Address the high-severity findings: each costs 18 safety points. If one is a false positive, add the rule id to guard.allow in spec.yaml.
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 1
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high Dangerous commands
cmd-persistenceSKILL.md:149Persistence mechanism (cron / launchd / scheduled task / autorun registry)schtasks /create /tn "OpenClaw Gateway" /tr "openclaw gateway start" /sc onstart /rl highest /f
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
✓ No remarks against the Agent Skills spec
Process rating: all ten parameters 48/100
- 0Result and completion. Does not say what the result is
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 1 mutating operations with no state check
- 40Consistency. Frontmatter name (openclaw-keepalive) differs from the folder (keepalive)
- 60Tools and files. Uses tools (bash) that frontmatter does not declare
- 85Steps. 20 steps, 1 vague phrases
- 100Failures and branches. 1 branches, has a failure section
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1377 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +3Output format is not stated: the model decides each time
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +5Description quotes 5 example trigger phrases
- +3Description length 420: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 23 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 20 items
- +4Has examples (13 code blocks)
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 89.