Monitor OpenClaw gateway health with a watchdog state machine, Discord alerts, cooldown dedupe, and isolated fallback deployment on macOS. Use when users wan...
Security Analysis
high confidenceThe skill's files, runtime instructions, and requested capabilities are coherent with a gateway watchdog that notifies Discord and optionally performs bounded auto-recovery; nothing required or installed appears disproportionate to that purpose.
Name/description (OpenClaw gateway watchdog + Discord alerts) align with required binaries (bash, python3, openclaw), the declared config requirement (channels.discord.enabled), and the included scripts which perform health checks, notify Discord, and optionally restart the gateway.
SKILL.md instructs running the included scripts, using OpenClaw cron or a macOS LaunchAgent, and storing runtime data under ~/.openclaw/watchdogs/gateway-discord. The instructions do not ask to read unrelated system files or exfiltrate data to unexpected endpoints; referenced files (openclaw.json and baseline) are relevant to auto-recovery.
No remote install/fetch steps are present (instruction-only plus bundled scripts). The provided macOS installer script writes a user LaunchAgent plist into ~/Library/LaunchAgents — expected for the fallback behavior.
The skill expects Discord delivery credentials (webhook or bot token + channel ID) via env or a local config.env located in the skill's base dir; these are proportional to sending alerts. The skill can read and restore openclaw.json from a baseline and runs openclaw doctor/restart commands — privileged but consistent with an opt-in auto-recovery feature. Users should note config.env may contain secrets and is sourced by the script.
The skill does not request always:true and is not forced into every agent run. It offers a user-level LaunchAgent installer that creates/loads a plist in the user's LaunchAgents directory — this is expected for a persistent fallback worker but is a meaningful change to user launchd state and requires user confirmation before loading.
Guidance
This skill appears to do what it claims, but review and control the following before installing: 1) Inspect ~/.openclaw/watchdogs/gateway-discord/config.env before sourcing it (it may contain Discord tokens); 2) Prefer webhook mode (DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL) if you want single-channel alerts and simpler permissions; 3) Test manually (GW_WATCHDOG_ENABLE_RESTART=0) before enabling auto-restart to avoid unexpected restarts; 4) If using the macOS installer, review the generated plist and only bootstrap it if you trust the behavior (it will create a LaunchAgent in your user domain); 5) Confirm the OpenClaw CLI path used by the script matches your expected install to avoid unintended commands. If you want extra assurance, run the script in a controlled/test environment and inspect event logs under ~/.openclaw/watchdogs/gateway-discord/.
Latest Release
v1.0.2
Added simplified installation instructions to SKILL.md and README.md.
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