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 skills add jdrhyne/agent-skills --skill auto-updatergit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jdrhyne/agent-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/jdrhyne/agent-skills/auto-updater)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jdrhyne/agent-skills/auto-updater"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jdrhyne/agent-skills/auto-updater/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jdrhyne/agent-skills/auto-updater"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jdrhyne/agent-skills/auto-updater.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00037 | $0.00564 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00015 | $0.00226 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00113 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00056 |
Grade A, and why
auto-updater 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 1mo 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.
What it actually says
Auto-Updater Skill
Keep OpenClaw and skills up to date automatically with daily update checks.
What It Does
This skill sets up a daily cron job that:
- Updates OpenClaw itself (via package manager)
- Updates installed ClawHub skills (via
clawhub update --all) - Sends a summary of what changed
Setup
Quick Start
Ask OpenClaw to set up the auto-updater:
Set up daily auto-updates for OpenClaw and installed skills.
Or manually add the cron job:
openclaw cron add \
--name "Daily Auto-Update" \
--cron "0 4 * * *" \
--tz "America/Los_Angeles" \
--session isolated \
--wake now \
--deliver \
--message "Run daily auto-updates: check for OpenClaw updates and update installed skills. Report what changed."
How Updates Work
OpenClaw Updates
For npm installs:
npm update -g openclaw@latest
After update, run health checks:
openclaw --profile default doctor --fix
openclaw gateway restart
Skill Updates
clawhub update --all
This checks installed ClawHub skills and updates to latest versions.
Manual Commands
Run a manual skill update:
clawhub update --all --no-input --force
List installed ClawHub skills:
clawhub list
Check OpenClaw version:
openclaw --version
Troubleshooting
Updates Not Running
- Verify cron is enabled (
openclaw cron list) - Ensure gateway is running continuously (
openclaw gateway status) - Confirm cron entry exists and timezone is correct
Common Failures
- Permission errors: ensure the OpenClaw user can write to install paths
- Network errors: verify internet connectivity
- Broken plugin/provider state: run
openclaw --profile default doctor --fix
Disable Auto-Updates
openclaw cron remove "Daily Auto-Update"
Resources
What ships with it
2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 111 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 7c6517a6f186
auto-updater is a skill published in the GitHub repository jdrhyne/agent-skills (240 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 564 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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