list

A read-only command for showing Crabbox machines, also called leases, that are currently tracked or reported by a selected provider. A provider is the cloud or machine service supplying them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list machines, filter them by provider or pond, refresh provider state, inspect all available inventory when permitted, or receive JSON output.
Why use it?
It gives you the current machine inventory without creating or releasing anything.

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/list
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 1,161 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 $0.01161
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00580
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00116

Measured yesterday against content hash 067898a43b6e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

list 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/list.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

list

crabbox list shows the current Crabbox machines (leases) for a provider. It is read-only and never provisions or releases anything.

To inspect unverified claim files across every locally recorded provider without loading a backend or requiring provider credentials, use crabbox claims list. The meanings of bare list, --provider, and --all remain provider-scoped.

crabbox list
crabbox list --provider aws
crabbox list --provider ssh --target macos --static-host mac-studio.local
crabbox list --provider cloudflare --refresh
crabbox list --provider hostinger --all
crabbox list --pond alpha
crabbox list --json

crabbox pool list is a compatibility alias for the same command.

What it lists

The shape of the output depends on the selected --provider:

  • Coordinator-backed providers (hetzner, aws, azure, daytona, gcp with a broker configured) list the leases the broker tracks for you. Add --all to request admin-wide provider inventory when an admin token is configured.
  • Direct cloud / hypervisor / static providers list the machines the provider itself reports. In provider=ssh mode this prints the single configured static target.
  • Delegated and sandbox providers (exe-dev, namespace-devbox, semaphore, sprites, daytona, blaxel, islo, e2b, and similar) render through the core lease view, so both human output and --json use the normalized Crabbox lease shape.

Providers that do not implement listing exit with an error.

Refreshing provider state

--refresh asks providers that keep local claims to check live runner state before printing. Without it, those providers report only their local claims and stay credential-free. For example, crabbox list --provider cloudflare reports local claims by default; add --refresh to query live container state. crabbox list --provider cloudflare-dynamic-workers follows the same local-claim model for Dynamic Workers run metadata; --refresh asks the loader about each claimed run ID and reports missing metadata as a stale local claim.

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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 · 114 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 067898a43b6e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

list 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 1,161 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.