error-guard

error-guard is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from xyva-yuangui/XyvaClaw. It costs 3 tokens per session (594 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A control-plane safety skill for OpenClaw, an agent system that runs tasks over time. It tracks task health and provides status and emergency-stop commands.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking active tasks, heartbeats, and stalled-task flags, and for cancelling active tasks or stopping running commands.
Why use it?
It helps prevent long-running or risky tasks from freezing, deadlocking, or becoming impossible to recover.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for openclaw.

Good fit It is for checking active tasks, heartbeats, and stalled-task flags, and for cancelling active tasks or stopping running commands.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/xyva-yuangui/xyvaclaw/error-guard
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add xyva-yuangui/XyvaClaw --skill error-guard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xyva-yuangui/XyvaClaw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 594 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 $0.00003 $0.00594
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00297
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00059

Measured 12d ago against content hash 6ebe8c08b736, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

error-guard 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (benchmark-worker.ts, control.ts, events.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

config-base/workspace/skills/error-guard/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

error-guard

⚠️ System‑level skill (Advanced users)

This skill defines the control‑plane safety primitives for OpenClaw. It is intentionally minimal, non‑blocking, and designed to prevent agent freezes, deadlocks, and unrecoverable states when running long‑lived or high‑risk workloads.

Design Principles

Warning: This skill operates at the agent control‑plane level. It should be installed only by users who understand OpenClaw’s execution model and are running workloads that can block, hang, or run for extended periods.

  • Main agent never blocks: no long exec, no external I/O, no LLM calls.
  • Event-driven: workers emit events; the control plane listens.
  • Fail-safe first: recovery commands must always respond.
  • Minimal state: track only task metadata (never payloads).

Command Surface (Phase 1)

/status

Report current system health and task registry state.

Returns:

  • Active tasks (taskId, type, state)
  • Start time and last heartbeat
  • Flags for stalled or overdue tasks

Constraints:

  • Must run in constant time
  • Must not call any model or external API

/flush

Emergency stop.

Immediately:

  • Cancel all active tasks
  • Kill active exec/process sessions
  • Clear pending message queue
  • Reset in-memory task registry

Constraints:

  • Must always respond
  • No waiting on workers
  • No model calls

/recover

Safe recovery sequence.

Steps:

  1. Execute /flush
  2. Reset control-plane state
  3. Optionally reload skills/state (no container restart)

Future Extensions (Not Implemented Yet)

  • Sub-agent runner helper (event-driven)
  • Task watchdogs with TTL and silence detection
  • Structured event protocol (task.started, task.heartbeat, task.completed, ...)
  • Back-pressure and task classes (interactive / batch / background)

Security & Privacy

  • This skill does not store payloads, prompts, messages, or model outputs
  • Only minimal task metadata is persisted (taskId, timestamps, state)
  • No API keys, credentials, or user data are read or written
  • Safe to publish and share publicly

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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. 12d ago First seen · 91 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A 6ebe8c08b736

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error-guard is a skill published in the GitHub repository xyva-yuangui/XyvaClaw (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 594 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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