openclaw-agent-debugger

openclaw-agent-debugger is a skill for Claude Code from TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin. It costs 0 tokens per session (3,037 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for OpenClaw agents and their gateway, the service that connects agents to channels and scheduled tasks. It works from a reported symptom toward a likely cause and fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate heartbeats, cron jobs, routing, model errors, workspace problems, channel connections, gateway status, and openclaw.json settings.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork with a structured check when an agent stops responding, runs the wrong task, loses a connection, or has configuration errors.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Part of the openclaw plugin — 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to investigate heartbeats, cron jobs, routing, model errors, workspace problems, channel connections, gateway status, and openclaw.json settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-agent-debugger
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin --skill openclaw-agent-debugger
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install openclaw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 22 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,037 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.03037
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01519
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00607
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00304

Measured 10d ago against content hash 53c3a73259b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openclaw-agent-debugger 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 10d 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.

plugins/openclaw/skills/openclaw-agent-debugger/SKILL.md · 390 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 390 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenClaw Agent Debugger

Diagnose OpenClaw problems systematically — from symptom to root cause to exact fix.

Diagnostic Philosophy

Every OpenClaw problem has a finite set of root causes. This skill works through them systematically rather than guessing. It always starts with the most likely cause for the reported symptom and works outward.


Stage 1: Symptom Triage

Classify the reported problem into one of these categories:

Symptom Most Likely Root Cause First Check
Agent not responding at all Gateway down / channel disconnected openclaw gateway status
Wrong agent responding Binding order wrong / default agent incorrect Check bindings in openclaw.json
Heartbeat stopped firing every: "0m" / activeHours window / no heartbeat block on any agent Check heartbeat config
Heartbeat fires but no message sent target: "none" or target resolves to nothing Check target + to fields
Cron job not running cron.enabled: false / wrong timezone / job disabled openclaw cron list
Cron job runs but no delivery delivery.mode: "none" / wrong channel target Check job delivery config
Gateway won't start Config validation error / port conflict / auth missing openclaw doctor
Model errors Wrong model string format / missing API key / rate limit Check model.primary format
Memory not persisting Workspace path wrong / file permissions / session type Check workspace config
Channel offline Auth expired / bot token invalid / account not linked openclaw channels status --probe
"Unauthorized" on connect Auth token mismatch Check OPENCLAW_GATEWAY_TOKEN
Multiple agents, routing broken Binding specificity order wrong Check binding priority order

Stage 2: Gather Diagnostics

Request or run these commands in order. Each is a gate — stop if you find the problem.

Gate 1: Gateway health

openclaw gateway status           # Is Gateway running?
openclaw gateway status --deep    # Detailed health
openclaw status                   # Quick overview

Read the full file on GitHub · 390 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. 10d ago First seen · 390 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 53c3a73259b5

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openclaw-agent-debugger is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,037 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 2026-08-31.

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