clawpatch

A command-line tool for reviewing a code repository and producing structured bug findings, with an option to apply checked fixes. It is used specifically for Clawpatch, an npm-installed tool that requires Node.js and a provider command-line program.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running automated repository reviews, locating findings, applying validated per-finding fixes, and rechecking or using review results in continuous integration.
Why use it?
It turns a broad repository review into individual findings that can be located and addressed. Its checks around dirty worktrees help prevent fixes from overwriting uncommitted source changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/tmchow/agent-skills/clawpatch
Any agent
npx skills add tmchow/agent-skills --skill clawpatch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmchow/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 158 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,515 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00158 $0.03515
Opus 5 $0.00079 $0.01758
Sonnet 5 $0.00032 $0.00703
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00351

Measured 2d ago against content hash a61c8b3bc0b5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

clawpatch scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

(`[ -d .clawpatch ] && rm -r .clawpatch` — guarded, never `rm -rf`) is a last
clawpatch/SKILL.md · 258 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 258 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clawpatch — agent workflow

Clawpatch (openclaw/clawpatch, https://clawpatch.ai) is an agent-driven CLI: it reviews a repo into structured findings and can apply validated per-finding fixes. It needs Node.js 22+ and a provider CLI (codex by default); fix refuses dirty source worktrees by default, while review/ci/revalidate can include dirty code when explicitly scoped.

This skill is judgment + orchestration, not a CLI reference. For exact flags, JSON fields, and exit codes, trust clawpatch <cmd> --help and the live --json output over anything written here — Clawpatch is pre-1.0 and its surface drifts, so a written copy will mislead. What this skill carries is what --help can't tell you: when to reach for it, how to fix findings in parallel, and the traps.

When to use

Use Clawpatch when the user names it, or wants whole-repo automated review that yields locatable findings plus optional validated fixes.

Don't use it for: a small diff already under review (a whole-repo review cycle is overkill — use a diff-review tool); a bug the user already understands and just wants written; or when no provider CLI (codex/claude/cursor/grok/ opencode/pi/acpx, or mock for tests) is installed — clawpatch doctor fails fast, so say so and stop.

Setup

clawpatch doctor verifies the install and the provider. The published CLI requires Node.js 22+. If clawpatch is missing, install the current published package (npm install -g [email protected]). The provider (codex by default) is the user's to install and authenticate — don't run login flows on their behalf.

Gitignore .clawpatch/ early to keep status, commits, and PR diffs clean. Clawpatch allows its own state directory to change during runs; fix's dirty guard is for source worktree changes, not .clawpatch/ churn. Add the single line .clawpatch/ before review/fix when the repo doesn't already ignore it, but remember .gitignore is tracked — confirm with the user before editing it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 258 lines

Files

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.

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. 2d ago First seen · 258 lines · 158 tokens per session scan C a61c8b3bc0b5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clawpatch is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmchow/agent-skills (64 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 158 tokens to every session and 3,515 once invoked, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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