ClawSweeper
ClawSweeper lives at ~/Projects/clawsweeper. It is the one OpenClaw
maintenance bot for sweeping, repair jobs, and guarded fix PRs.
Use this skill whenever asked about reports, findings, dispatch health,
repair/cloud PR creation, comment commands, automerge, permissions, or gates.
Start
Inspect git status --short --branch in the ClawSweeper checkout. Status and
report requests stay read-only: use current reports and live read APIs when
freshness matters, without pulling or building just to inspect them.
For authorized implementation or execution, update a clean task-owned checkout and build only when the selected command needs it. Preserve unrelated edits and other operators' active workflows.
One Bot, One App
Use the ClawSweeper repo and the clawsweeper GitHub App. Use only
CLAWSWEEPER_* configuration for this automation. Do not use legacy apps,
variables, labels, or skills.
Required app setup:
CLAWSWEEPER_APP_CLIENT_ID: public app client ID forclawsweeper.CLAWSWEEPER_APP_PRIVATE_KEY: private key used only insideactions/create-github-app-tokensteps.- Target app permissions: read target scan context; write issues and pull
requests; contents write for report commits, repair branches, and workflow
inputs; Actions write on
openclaw/clawsweeperfor comment-router re-review dispatch, workflow dispatch, run cancellation, and self-heal.
Token boundary:
- Codex workers do not get mutation credentials.
- Review workers run with stripped secret/token env.
- Deterministic scripts own comments, labels, branch pushes, PR creation, closes, and merges through short-lived GitHub App tokens.
- Merge and write gates default closed.
Hosted Commit Reviews
Hosted per-commit reports and commit Check Runs are retired. For the retained
offline review of a committed branch, use pnpm local-review -- --base main.
$autoreview --mode commit --commit <sha> remains a separate general-purpose
review path.
Sweep Reports
Issue/PR reports live at:
textrecords/<repo-slug>/items/<number>.md records/<repo-slug>/closed/<number>.md
Lead with counts, concrete findings, and report links. Do not post unsolicited GitHub comments from report-reading work. Public surfaces are markdown reports, durable ClawSweeper review comments, and optional checks.
PR reports include Codex /review-style reviewFindings with priority,
confidence, repository-relative file, and line range. Public PR comments show a
short Review findings: list when findings exist; full review comments,
evidence links, likely owners, and runtime details stay inside the collapsed
Review details block.
For a simple status request, read existing reports and bounded live workflow
state. Use pnpm run audit only for a requested full audit.
Reconciliation is a separate authorized mutation: bare pnpm run reconcile
moves/deletes report and work-plan files. Inspect its dry-run only when that
maintenance task is requested; do not run reconciliation during status/report
reads. Likewise, apply-decisions belongs to an explicitly authorized apply
workflow, beginning with its dry-run.
Create One Repair Job
Create a job from issue/PR refs and a maintainer prompt:
bashpnpm run repair:create-job -- \ --repo openclaw/openclaw \ --refs 123,456 \ --prompt-file /tmp/clawsweeper-prompt.md
Create from an existing ClawSweeper report:
bashpnpm run repair:create-job -- \ --from-report ../clawsweeper/records/openclaw-openclaw/items/123.md
The job creator checks for an existing open PR, body match, or remote
clawsweeper/<cluster-id> branch before writing another job. Use --dry-run
to inspect. Use --force only after deciding the duplicate guard is stale.
Validate, commit, then dispatch:
bashpnpm run repair:validate-job -- jobs/openclaw/inbox/clawsweeper-openclaw-openclaw-123.md pnpm run repair:dispatch -- jobs/openclaw/inbox/clawsweeper-openclaw-openclaw-123.md \ --mode autonomous \ --runner blacksmith-4vcpu-ubuntu-2404 \ --execution-runner blacksmith-16vcpu-ubuntu-2404 \ --model gpt-6-astra
Do not dispatch a just-created job before the job file is committed and pushed; the workflow reads the job path from GitHub.
Replacement PRs
For a useful but uneditable/stale/unsafe source PR, make the maintainer prompt explicit:
mdTreat #123 as useful source work. If the source branch cannot be safely updated because it is uneditable, stale, draft-only, unmergeable, or unsafe, create a narrow ClawSweeper replacement PR instead of waiting. Preserve the source PR author as co-author, credit the source PR in the replacement PR body, and close only that source PR after the replacement PR is opened.
The worker should emit repair_strategy=replace_uneditable_branch and list the
source PR URL in source_prs. The deterministic executor opens or updates
clawsweeper/<cluster-id>, adds non-bot source authors as Co-authored-by
trailers, and closes superseded source PRs only after replacement exists.
Gates
Change execution gates only under explicit authority for that window. Record the original state and any agreed restoration before changing it:
bashgh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_EXECUTE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1 gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_FIX_PR --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1 gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_MERGE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1 gh variable set CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_AUTOMERGE --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --body 1
Restore a gate only when the authorized window includes that restoration and
its ownership/state still match. Otherwise leave it unchanged; another active
maintainer window may intentionally keep it at 1. Never reset all gates as
generic cleanup.
Important gates:
CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_EXECUTE: allows deterministic write lanes.CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_FIX_PR: allows branch repair/replacement PRs.CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_MERGE: allows merge-capable applicators.CLAWSWEEPER_ALLOW_AUTOMERGE: allows comment-router automerge.CLAWSWEEPER_COMMENT_ROUTER_EXECUTE: lets scheduled comment routing post replies and dispatch repair.
Maintainer Mentions
Prefer @clawsweeper comments for all maintainer-facing control. Slash
commands still parse as compatibility aliases, but examples and live guidance
should use mentions.
text@clawsweeper status @clawsweeper re-review @clawsweeper review @clawsweeper fix ci @clawsweeper address review @clawsweeper rebase @clawsweeper autofix @clawsweeper automerge @clawsweeper approve @clawsweeper explain @clawsweeper stop @clawsweeper <question or safe action request> @clawsweeper[bot] re-review @openclaw-clawsweeper fix ci @openclaw-clawsweeper[bot] fix ci
Accepted aliases: review, re-review, rereview, review again,
rerun review, and run review. review and re-review dispatch a fresh
ClawSweeper issue/PR review without starting repair. fix ci,
address review, and rebase dispatch the
repair worker only for ClawSweeper PRs or PRs opted into
clawsweeper:autofix or clawsweeper:automerge. autofix runs the bounded
review/fix loop without merging. automerge runs the bounded review/fix/merge
loop, but draft PRs stay fix-only until GitHub marks them ready for review.
Freeform maintainer mentions such as @clawsweeper why did automerge stop?
or @clawsweeper: can you explain this failure? dispatch a read-only assist
review with the mention text as one-off instructions. The answer lands in the
next public ClawSweeper review comment. Action-looking prose does not directly
mutate GitHub; it must map to existing structured recommendations and pass the
normal deterministic gates.
Default accepted maintainers: OWNER, MEMBER, COLLABORATOR; fallback
repository permission accepts admin, maintain, or write. Contributor
comments are ignored without a reply.
Run router manually:
bashpnpm run repair:comment-router -- --repo openclaw/openclaw --lookback-minutes 180 pnpm run repair:comment-router -- --repo openclaw/openclaw --execute --wait-for-capacity
Scheduled routing stays dry unless
CLAWSWEEPER_COMMENT_ROUTER_EXECUTE=1.
Trusted Autofix And Automerge
@clawsweeper autofix opts an existing PR into the bounded review/fix loop.
@clawsweeper automerge opts an existing PR into the bounded review/fix/merge
loop. The router:
- verifies maintainer authorization;
- labels the PR
clawsweeper:autofixorclawsweeper:automerge; - dispatches ClawSweeper review for the current head SHA;
- creates or reuses a durable adopted job;
- repairs at most the configured caps;
- never merges autofix PRs or draft PRs;
- merges automerge PRs only when ClawSweeper passed the exact current head, checks are green, GitHub says mergeable, no human-review label is present, the PR is not draft, and both merge gates are open.
Missing changelog is never a review finding or merge blocker. CHANGELOG.md is release-only; record user-facing release-note context in the PR body or squash message, never edit the changelog for normal repairs.
If ClawSweeper passes while merge gates are closed, it labels
clawsweeper:merge-ready and comments instead of merging. @clawsweeper stop
adds clawsweeper:human-review.
When asked to create a PR and enable ClawSweeper automerge, do not
leave the local OpenClaw checkout on the PR branch. After the PR is created,
pushed, and the @clawsweeper automerge request is posted or otherwise
confirmed, return the local checkout to main and fast-forward it when the
working tree is clean:
bashgit switch main git pull --ff-only
If unrelated local edits or an in-progress rebase prevent switching, report the blocker instead of stashing, deleting, or overwriting work.
Repair caps:
bashCLAWSWEEPER_MAX_REPAIRS_PER_PR=10 CLAWSWEEPER_MAX_REPAIRS_PER_HEAD=1
Security Boundary
Do not stage unapproved security-sensitive work for ClawSweeper Repair. Route vulnerability reports, CVE/GHSA/advisory work, leaked secrets/tokens/keys, plaintext secret storage, SSRF, XSS, CSRF, RCE, auth bypass, privilege escalation, and sensitive data exposure to central OpenClaw security handling.
For PRs explicitly opted into clawsweeper:autofix or
clawsweeper:automerge, security-sensitive review findings may dispatch
bounded repair, but merge remains blocked until a later exact-head review is
clean and the normal merge gates pass. Trust deterministic ClawSweeper security
markers, labels, and job frontmatter; do not infer security handling from vague
prose.
Monitoring
Receiver workflows:
bashgh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow sweep.yml \ --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow repair-cluster-worker.yml \ --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow repair-comment-router.yml \ --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url gh run list --repo openclaw/clawsweeper --workflow github-activity.yml \ --limit 12 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,createdAt,updatedAt,url
Target dispatcher:
bashgh run list --repo openclaw/openclaw --workflow "ClawSweeper Dispatch" \ --limit 8 --json databaseId,displayTitle,event,status,conclusion,headSha,url
Reading Output
For findings or failures, summarize:
- target repo, item/PR, run, report path
- result, confidence, severity, and exact blocker
- affected files or cluster refs
- validation commands and whether they passed
- whether mutation gates were open or closed
- next deterministic action
Keep the broom small: one cluster, one branch, one PR, narrow proof, clear owner-visible evidence.
