admin

A command-line administration interface for managing coordinator-backed leases and the cloud servers associated with them. A lease is a temporary reservation of a resource.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect leases, audit expired reservations against live cloud resources, release or delete backing servers, and view provider or host policies.
Why use it?
It separates trusted administrative actions from ordinary operator actions by requiring a dedicated administrator token.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/openclaw/crabbox/admin
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,616 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.02616
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01308
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00523
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00262

Measured yesterday against content hash 6c26dfd2c6a1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

admin scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/admin.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

admin

crabbox admin groups trusted operator controls for coordinator-backed leases and the cloud resources behind them. Use it to inspect every lease the broker tracks, reconcile expired leases against live cloud state, force-release or delete a backing server, print provider IAM policies, and manage host lifecycle resources.

Requirements

Every admin subcommand needs both a configured coordinator and a separate admin bearer token. The token is read from broker.adminToken in config or the CRABBOX_COORDINATOR_ADMIN_TOKEN environment variable. The ordinary operator/shared token (broker.token / CRABBOX_COORDINATOR_TOKEN) is not sufficient for admin routes — commands fail with a configuration error when only the shared token is present.

At a glance

crabbox admin leases
crabbox admin leases --state active --json
crabbox admin lease-audit --state expired --provider aws
crabbox admin lease-audit --fail-on-live
crabbox admin providers identity --provider aws --region eu-west-1
crabbox admin providers policy --provider aws --target macos
crabbox admin hosts policy --provider aws --target macos
crabbox admin hosts offerings --provider aws --target macos --region eu-west-1 --type mac2.metal
crabbox admin hosts quota --provider aws --target macos --region eu-west-1 --type mac2.metal
crabbox admin hosts list --provider aws --target macos --region eu-west-1
crabbox admin hosts allocate --provider aws --target macos --region eu-west-1 --type mac2.metal --dry-run
crabbox admin hosts allocate --provider aws --target macos --region eu-west-1 --type mac2.metal --force
crabbox admin hosts release h-0123456789abcdef0 --provider aws --target macos --region eu-west-1 --force
crabbox admin release blue-lobster
crabbox admin release blue-lobster --delete
crabbox admin delete cbx_... --force

release and delete accept either a canonical cbx_... lease ID or an active slug, given positionally or via --id. Prefer the canonical ID when a slug lookup could be ambiguous. Add --json to any subcommand to print the structured record instead of the human-readable line.

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 272 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 6c26dfd2c6a1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

admin is a command published in the GitHub repository openclaw/crabbox (1,343 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,616 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.