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 TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin --skill openclaw-automationgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-pluginWrote 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/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-automation)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-automation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-automation/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/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-automation"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/theophiluschinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin/openclaw-automation.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 | $0.00054 | $0.01353 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00027 | $0.00677 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00271 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00135 |
Grade A, and why
openclaw-automation 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 11d 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 — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
OpenClaw Automation
Guide the user through configuring automated actions: cron (scheduled), hooks (event-driven), and heartbeat (keep-alive).
Three Pillars
| Pillar | Trigger | Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| Cron | Schedule (crontab syntax) | Daily briefings, periodic reports, cleanup tasks |
| Hooks | HTTP webhook event | Gmail notifications, CI/CD triggers, external service events |
| Heartbeat | Idle timer | Keep-alive pings, context refresh, periodic check-ins |
All three hot-apply without gateway restart (in hybrid or hot reload mode).
Cron Jobs
Configuration
{
cron: {
enabled: true,
maxConcurrentRuns: 2,
sessionRetention: "24h", // prune completed run sessions (false to disable)
runLog: {
maxBytes: "2mb",
keepLines: 2000,
},
},
}
CLI Commands
openclaw cron status # Scheduler status (enabled, running jobs)
openclaw cron list # All configured jobs as table
openclaw cron add # Guided job creation
openclaw cron update <jobId> # Update existing job
openclaw cron remove <jobId> # Remove a job
openclaw cron run <jobId> # Manual trigger (runs immediately)
openclaw cron runs <jobId> # View run history
openclaw cron wake # Enqueue system event + optional heartbeat
Cron Tool (Agent)
The agent has a built-in cron tool with actions: status, list, add, update, remove, run, runs, wake.
addexpects a full cron job object (same schema ascron.addRPC)updateuses{ jobId, patch }
Security
- Cron can create scheduled jobs that persist after the chat ends — this is a control-plane tool
- For agents handling untrusted content, deny cron:
{ tools: { deny: ["cron"] } } - Use
group:automationto deny bothcronandgatewaytools together - Cron payloads support
allowUnsafeExternalContent— keep thisfalsein production
What ships with it
1 file 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.
- 11d ago First seen · 193 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 2227d5614e84
openclaw-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheophilusChinomona/claude-openclaw-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,353 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.
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