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.
npx agentmods add commands/openclaw/crabbox/poolgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openclaw/crabboxWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00000 | $0.01213 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00607 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00000 | $0.00243 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00000 | $0.00121 |
Grade A, and why
pool 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 108 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
pool
crabbox pool contains machine-pool helpers. pool list keeps the older
machine inventory alias. Ready-pool subcommands manage hydrated broker leases
that can be borrowed by crabbox run --pool.
crabbox pool ready
crabbox pool ready example/app/main/linux
crabbox pool register example/app/main/linux --id cbx_... --compatibility-key linux-16-vcpu
crabbox pool borrow example/app/main/linux --compatibility-key linux-16-vcpu
crabbox pool heartbeat example/app/main/linux --id cbx_... --borrow-token <token>
crabbox pool return example/app/main/linux --id cbx_... --result ready --borrow-token <token>
crabbox pool ensure example/app/main/linux --min-ready 2 --max-ready 4 --compatibility-key linux-16-vcpu --create -- --provider aws --type c6i.4xlarge
Ready Pools
Ready pools are broker records for already hydrated leases. The CLI registers a
lease after prewarm or actions hydrate has prepared it. Borrow marks one
ready entry busy. Return either makes it ready again or drains and releases it.
Manual returns for busy leases must pass the token printed by pool borrow.
crabbox run --pool negotiates heartbeat enforcement and sends heartbeats
automatically. Manual and older-client borrows remain deadline-free unless
they send pool heartbeat; the first successful heartbeat opts that borrow in.
An opted-in abandoned borrow is quarantined and cannot become ready again
without being drained.
Subcommands
pool list list provider machine inventory
pool ready [key] list ready-pool entries
pool identity <key> generate an identity from an existing AWS image-backed lease
pool register <key> register a hydrated lease
pool borrow <key> borrow one ready lease
pool heartbeat <key> refresh a borrowed lease deadline
pool return <key> return, drain, or release a borrowed lease
pool ensure <key> reconcile desired ready capacity
pool ensure persists --min-ready and --max-ready with the coordinator.
With --create, each keeper first obtains an atomic fill claim, then forwards
arguments after -- to prewarm. Concurrent keepers count active claims
toward the maximum, so they cannot double-provision the same missing slot.
An issued claim remains valid until registration, explicit release, or expiry;
later policy or capacity changes block new claims but never revoke in-flight
provisioning. pool ensure succeeds only when the actual ready count reaches
--min-ready. Another keeper's in-flight claim is reported but does not make
the command succeed.
Forwarded --repo and --ref overrides are rejected; set the desired
repository/ref in config before ensuring the pool.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 108 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A aef5e98ea3ec
pool 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 1,213 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.
Other commands, from other repositories
checklist
Generate a custom checklist for the current feature based on user requirements.
clarify
Identify underspecified areas in the current feature spec by asking up to 5 highly targeted clarification questions and encoding answers back into the spec.
specify
Create or update the feature specification from a natural language feature description.
analyze
Perform a non-destructive cross-artifact consistency and quality analysis across spec.md, plan.md, and tasks.md after task generation.
converge
Assess the current codebase against the feature's spec, plan, and tasks, then append any remaining unbuilt work as new tasks to tasks.md so implement can complete it.
implement
Execute the implementation plan by processing and executing all tasks defined in tasks.md.