artifacts

A command-line tool for collecting QA evidence from a desktop or remote-browser session. It can bundle screenshots, recordings, logs, diagnostic output, and metadata, then create review files and publish them to a pull request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to collect evidence, record MP4 video, create a trimmed GIF, write a QA summary, publish bundles, and list or download published files.
Why use it?
It replaces scattered one-off screenshots with a shareable evidence bundle that helps explain and review a user-interface problem or fix.

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/artifacts
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 3,473 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 $0.03473
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01736
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00695
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00347

Measured 2d ago against content hash 0a935892fc66, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

artifacts 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 2d ago.

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/artifacts.md · 374 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 374 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

artifacts

crabbox artifacts turns a desktop lease into durable QA evidence: it collects screenshots, video, logs, doctor output, and metadata into a bundle, makes trimmed review media, writes QA summary markdown, and publishes inline-ready assets to a pull request.

Reach for it when a desktop/WebVNC issue or UI fix needs more than a one-off screenshot. Subcommands:

  • collect — gather a full evidence bundle into a directory.
  • video — record an MP4 from a desktop lease.
  • gif — make a trimmed GIF from a recorded video (alias for crabbox media preview).
  • template — write QA summary markdown.
  • publish — upload a bundle and optionally comment on a PR.
  • list / pull — read or download files from a published manifest.

Collect

crabbox artifacts collect --id blue-lobster --output artifacts/blue-lobster
crabbox artifacts collect --id blue-lobster --all --duration 20s --output artifacts/blue-lobster
crabbox artifacts collect --id blue-lobster --run run_123 --output artifacts/blue-lobster

By default collect writes:

  • metadata.json
  • screenshot.png
  • doctor.txt
  • webvnc-status.json when a coordinator login is configured
  • logs.txt and run.json when --run <run-id> is provided

The default bundle directory is private. An explicit --output directory keeps its existing sharing permissions, while retained logs.txt and run.json remain owner-only. Publishing is unchanged.

--all enables --video and --gif, so the bundle also records screen.mp4, writes a screen.contact.png contact sheet, and produces a trimmed screen.trimmed.gif. --gif requires --video (or --all). Linux video uses remote ffmpeg/X11 capture; native Windows captures frames in the interactive console session and encodes the MP4 locally with ffmpeg. MP4 capture is supported for Linux and native Windows desktop targets only.

When the output directory is omitted, Crabbox derives one from the lease ID and slug. The bundle is not collected for static (BYO) hosts on non-Linux targets, or for the Blacksmith provider, which owns its own connectivity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 374 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. 2d ago First seen · 374 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 0a935892fc66

Subscribe to this mod's changes

artifacts is a command published in the GitHub repository openclaw/crabbox (1,343 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,473 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.