status

A command that reports the current state of a Crabbox lease, which is a reserved machine or development environment. It shows details such as the provider, operating system, network, readiness, idle time, and expiry.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking a lease by its ID or name, waiting for readiness, viewing JSON output, and selecting provider, network, operating-system, or static-host options.
Why use it?
It lets you see whether the environment is ready and how long it remains available without changing its state. A wait option can pause until it becomes ready or reaches a final state.

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/status
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 1,387 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 $0.01387
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00139

Measured yesterday against content hash 057b71e4884f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

status 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/status.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

status

crabbox status prints the current state of a lease: its slug, provider, target OS, host, network, readiness, idle time, and expiry. By default it is a read-only snapshot. Add --wait to block until the box becomes ready (or reaches a terminal state).

crabbox status --id swift-crab
crabbox status --id swift-crab --json
crabbox status --id swift-crab --wait --wait-timeout 10m
crabbox status --id swift-crab --network tailscale
crabbox status --provider ssh --target macos --static-host mac-studio.local

Identifying the lease

--id accepts the canonical cbx_... lease ID or an active slug. For provider=ssh (static hosts), --id is optional: status resolves the configured static target or the local claim for the current repo.

When --provider is omitted, an exact local claim or an unambiguous claimed slug selects its recorded provider before that provider is initialized. An explicit --provider still wins; a slug claimed by multiple providers asks you to pass a canonical lease ID or --provider, and an identifier without a local claim keeps the configured-provider fallback.

Several delegated and direct providers resolve their own native identifiers in addition to the Crabbox lease ID and local slug:

  • blacksmith-testbox — accepts a tbx_... ID or local slug; derives a normalized status view from blacksmith testbox list --all.
  • blaxel — accepts a Crabbox lease ID (blx_<sandbox-id>) or local slug, verifies the local claim against Blaxel ownership labels, and reports the sandbox state, endpoint, pond, and readiness.
  • namespace-devbox — accepts a lease ID, local slug, or existing Devbox name; prepares SSH through the Namespace CLI.
  • namespace-instance — accepts a lease ID, local slug, or Compute instance ID; prepares SSH through nsc proxy.
  • exe-dev — accepts a lease ID, local slug, or exe.dev VM name; resolves the VM through ssh exe.dev ls.
  • semaphore — resolves local claims and Semaphore job state through the Semaphore API.
  • sprites — resolves local claims, Sprites labels, and SSH readiness through sprite proxy.
  • daytona — resolves Crabbox labels and sandbox state through the Daytona API.
  • coder — accepts a Crabbox lease ID, local slug, Coder workspace name, or owner/workspace; plain status reads Coder inventory without starting stopped workspaces.
  • islo — accepts an isb_... ID, a Crabbox-created sandbox name, or a local slug.
  • e2b — accepts a lease ID, local slug, or a Crabbox-owned E2B sandbox ID in raw or e2b_<sandboxID> form.
  • vercel-sandbox — accepts a Crabbox-created local slug or vsbx_... lease ID and verifies the Vercel Sandbox ownership metadata before reporting state.
  • cloudflare-dynamic-workers — accepts a local Dynamic Workers claim, lifecycle run ID, or slug, then asks the loader for run metadata. Stable and explicit Worker cache IDs are not lifecycle IDs. The status target is worker-runtime, not a Linux host.

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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 · 121 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 057b71e4884f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

status 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 1,387 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.